Patriot Xporter Rage XT Quad Channel 25MB/s USB Flash Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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820 words · ~4 min read
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now here's a product category that hasn't really seen any innovation in the
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last little while I mean yeah they've gotten smaller they've gotten bigger but
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this is finally something cool this is the Patriot transporter XT
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rage no I don't think it's XT at all
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yeah transporter XT rage I was totally right okay this is a quad Channel USB
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flash drive it's available in a bunch of different capacities and it offers up to
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25 megabytes per second right speeds so
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that is way faster than pretty much any
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other USB drive that doesn't have quad Channel
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performance comes with a 25e warranty from
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Patriot and I guess let's open it up shall
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we okay so if I can I I've been turning
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it over trying to figure out how to open the box and I still actually don't know
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so I'm going to resort to using my trusty knife and maybe you split it
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that looks dangerous oh hey look there's a USB plug on the back oh no that's the
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front oh
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wow there okay so we sliced something
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I'm not sure if we sliced the right thing okay transporter XT rage
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rage come on up come on up little
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guy when it comes out there might be much rage
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Fury all right there we go we've
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extracted it from the packaging always be careful when opening packaging not
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everyone is a professional unboxer do not attempt this at
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home oh there that's how it works cool
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so that's the transporter XT rage it's got a little Loop for a key or for a
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little piece of string that you put through there and then you can hang it
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off your keychain or whatever else you want and then it's also got uh a US B
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interface here and it's 8 gigs and how
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about this here's a stunning new
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development I'm going to test it there's an idea okay so I'm going to
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plug it into my computer here all right plugs in just like that
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now it is a little bit on the big side it was detected right
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away okay just a second let's close close all my Windows
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you never know what kind of personal information might be there someone saw
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my uh my personal MSN a little while ago
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and I had a bunch of people adding me to MSN I apologize to everyone who added me
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to MSN and I did not add them back but
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uh my MSN is strictly for RL friends and
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family so don't be offended
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please okay so let's try and find something here why don't I copy my audio
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search surf music folder over to the rage XT wow that's fast okay so 17 megab
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21 megab per second 16 megab per
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second and that was with a bunch of small files okay okay forget that forget
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that let's find uh let's find something that's
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um like bigger okay here here here we'll
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find something okay I'm not going to show you as I browse all my folders and
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files so you can uh you can look at my g15 keyboard for now and and uh let's
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find what can I find there has to be
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something here okay yeah yeah yeah we'll just do
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like a big Blog video file
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because Blog video files are not
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downloaded from the internet and they are completely legal I
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own all of the rights to these I think okay so it was up to 23 megabytes per
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second there for a sec oh this is highly inaccurate I I hate this stupid thing
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it's never right anyway we saw when we were transferring the music it went up
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above 20 megabytes per second but I don't know if it's actually measuring it
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in any meaningful way anyway you can see that I am transferring a 2.7 GB file and
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I'm transferring it to this USB thumb drive and it's going pretty
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fast and uh yeah I guess that's pretty much it there you go that's what you can
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expect out of real world performance it's possible if we formatted it
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properly and didn't just plug it into to the computer and go that we might get
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slightly better results and this may not be accurate at all in fact it might be
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transferring at 150 megabytes per second for all we know but Windows doesn't seem
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to measure things the same way that everybody does so it's impossible to
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tell thank you for checking out my unboxing and quick performance test of
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the Patriot transporter
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XT rage