Memorex Mini Travel Drive U3 512 MB

Test results

Now its time to put the drive to the test and give you a general idea of what the performance might be. CDR-Zone.COM have found SiSoft Sandra to be a most reliable piece of software for general benchmarking, which is good because I've used two benchmarks from the suite. One should remember that these benchmarks are an accurate recording of a moment in time under controlled conditions, but results may vary in real-life situations. It all depends on the system, USB port, data and load used with the drives. Please don't use the benchmarks as a definite source but more for a general idea of what it can do in measured and controlled situations.

Mini Travel Drive test results These benchmarks allow us to show you the test results of the Memorex Mini Travel Drive U3 per separate benchmark. Sisoft Sandra 2007 File System Benchmark Sisoft Sandra 2007 Removable Storage Benchmark HDTune Benchmark HDTach Benchmark CDCheck Benchmark

The drive has a high endurance factor according to Sisoft Sandra. Which is good, it means it can perform at roughly the same speed no matter the size of the file. It has its limits of course, the bigger the file the lower the operations per minute gets. According to all other tests the transfer rate is excellent, which will certainly be appreciated when using U3 applications.

I've tested the drives with a security part that was unlocked as well. There wasn't any significant change to show you on that area. The drive simply performed the same no matter the lock down.

The compatibility tests are designed to show some real life cases on how the drive may perform. I have used different types of media on the drive and try to play, access or load it and see how well it performs. In this case the drive is also split up into two volumes, so I've played, accessed and loaded from both at the same time as well. Some types of media have theoretical bit-rates to make them play ok, if the drives don't perform as fast as they should, the media should be unplayable. Below you will find the results listed.

This might be getting old to hear, but there were no faults in these tests. All of the media played normally without any exception. Which is good but I can't glorify it more then it is.

The bit-rate values for the operating systems, documents and pictures don't apply here; those types of data use what ever throughput from the file system is available. That means if the media, on which it is carried, is slow, it will load slowly and the other way around too. However if the media is too slow you will receive errors and timeouts.

This is the first U3 drive of which I was able to boot from. Again the key lies in the fact that the first volume is read-only so it can't be made to boot. The second volume is accessible and can be used to boot from. All three operating systems mentioned above were able to boot from the drive.