Performance

In order to test the performance of the Gizmo we used a couple different benchmarking methods on a computer with Windows XP and USB 2.0 support. SiSoftware's Sandra 2005 was used for testing the theoretical performance of the flash drive as well as Simpli Software's HDTach 3. For a more real-world benchmark, we used NoDeSoft's DiskBench 2.4.2.2.

SiSoftware Sandra 2005

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical performance of a computer's components. The results may not be representative of real-world performance.

SiSoftware Sandra 2005

Drive Index

Crucial Gizmo!

Corsair Flash Voyager

SanDisk Titanium

6

19

16

0

MB/s (higher is better)

30

 

 

Sandra 2005 Details
Crucial Gizmo! Buffered Read: 6 MB/s Sequential Read: 6 MB/s Random Read: 6 MB/s Buffered Write: 1.2 MB/s Sequential Write: 6 MB/s Random Write: 3.8 MB/s Average Access Time: 2 ms	Corsair Flash Voyager Buffered Read: 19 MB/s Sequential Read: 19 MB/s Random Read: 19 MB/s Buffered Write: 14 MB/s Sequential Write: 5 MB/s Random Write: 15 MB/s Average Access Time: 20 ms	SanDisk Titanium Buffered Read: 16 MB/s Sequential Read: 16 MB/s Random Read: 16 MB/s Buffered Write: 3.6 MB/s Sequential Write: 13 MB/s Random Write: 10 MB/s Average Access Time: 1 ms

While not an exact indication of the drive's real-world performance, the Gizmo is not having a great start.

Simpli Software HDTach 3

HDTach 3 has been completely rewritten for Windows 2000 and XP and will test the sequential read, random access and interface burst speeds of almost any attached storage device. While HDTach's results should be fairly close to real-world usage, it is still a benchmarking program and may not exactly represent actual performance.

Simpli Software HDTach 3

Random Access Speed

Crucial Gizmo!

Corsair Flash Voyager

SanDisk Titanium

0.6

19.9

0.8

0

milliseconds (lower is better)

30

 

 

Simpli Software HDTach 3

CPU Utilization

Crucial Gizmo!

Corsair Flash Voyager

SanDisk Titanium

4

23

11

0

% (lower is better)

100

 

 

HDTach shows results very similar to Sandra. The Gizmo isn't performing even half as well as the SanDisk or the Corsair. Aside from the high random access speed and CPU utilization, the Voyager is kicking some serious Gizmo butt!

NoDeSoft DiskBench 2.4.2.2

DiskBench basically copies a file from point A to point B and records how long it took. For our tests, we had the program copy a 345 MB file from the hard drive to the USB drives and spit out the transfer speeds. Due to the nature of this program, these results should do an extremely good job of representing the actual performance of the drives.

The DiskBench shows performance extremely close to that which we would see in the 'real world.' This test simply copied a file and timed it and Crucial is still lagging behind by a large margin.