VisionTek USB Pocket SSD 120GB Flash Drive - SSD Performance, Compact Size
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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USB drives I mean now that I can get 4 gig ones enough to install an OS for
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free with press kits about new products or whatever on them they've got to do
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something pretty special in order to grab my attention especially if they
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come from a company that doesn't normally even make USB drives like
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Vision
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Tech Corsair gaming RGB keyboards feature Precision Cherry MX RG GB key
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switches for 16.8 million color per key
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backlighting for virtually unlimited customization click now to learn more so
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this isn't Vision Tech's first portable SSD they actually had a product that let
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you plug an MSA SSD into a little enclosure then connect that to your PC
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via USB 3 although it's certainly their
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much more elegant one so much like the
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9696 the 9718 they really got to work on their
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product names promises much better performance than a normal high-capacity
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USB drive by using an LSI San Force 2281
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SSD controller yeah the same kind that a
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desktop SSD would use rather than a normal thumb drive controller to
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interact with the flash chips on the drive but this time instead of some
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cluggy dongle and fragile MCA Drive you're getting a solid aluminum housing
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one that is evidently assembled in the USA if that kind of thing is important
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to you that is both heavy and and rugged feeling enough for me to be fairly
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confident that I could kill a man with it sorry I didn't tell him I was going
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to do that if the need arose it also has a metal keychain loop on one end a nice
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upgrade from the last SSD controller based USB drive I checked out and a
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standard rubber USB port cover a significant downgrade from other designs
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that I've seen that is sure to get lost quite quickly and then the last nice
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thing I have to say about it physically completing the sandwich is is that
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compared to that other drive it's much skinnier making inserting it into
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closely spaced ports much easier a bit
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more on specs before we jump into benchmarks though it's backwards compatible with USB 2 but obviously
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works best on a USB 3 port with support for uasp a data transfer protocol that's
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better optimized for random reads and wrs and vision Tech claims that you can
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achieve up to 445 megabytes per second read and 440
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megabytes per second right well above what we were able to do with our flash
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Voyager GTX from Corsair the only other similar SSD in your pocket based product
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that we've seen so here we are we've got a pretty simple Benchmark Suite today
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black Magic's disc speed test gives us a really clear idea of how this drive will
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perform in what is in my daily life anyway a typical workload by reading and
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writing compressible data to and from the drive it should be noted that it's
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important that the data is compressed ible for a sand for space drive like
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this because it will not perform nearly as well with incompressible data
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especially given how few flash chips there are on the drive
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itself so while it appears that I wasn't able to replicate the numbers from the
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box this is still one wicked fast USB
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drive about the same speed as our Angel bird SSD to go pocket that is
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considerably bulkier and more expensive but then also available in higher
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capacities we've got a 120 gig version of The Vision Tech here but there's also
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a 240 gig and that is pretty much it now
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it should be noted guys when looking at these results that you will need to be
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cognizant of what usb3 controller you're
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using on your computer because if you have an older one you might not see
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numbers this high with anything the Voyager GTX the vision Tech usb3 120 gig
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solid state drive man they got to work on their product names or the angel bird
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