SanDisk Cruzer Profile 1 GB

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, 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 as a general guide.

Cruzer Profile test results These benchmarks allow us to show you the test results of the SanDisk Cruzer Profile per separate benchmark. Sisoft Sandra 2007 File System Benchmark Sisoft Sandra 2007 Removable Storage Benchmark HDTune Benchmark HDTach Benchmark CDCheck Benchmark

What you see predominantly is that the random access times are low with the cruzer and the throughput very high. In the removable storage test from SiSoft you see the operations per minute are lower then some other drives but the endurance factor is pretty high. That means that it doesn't do a lot of operations per minute, but it does keep up the rate of operations per minute over a longer period, enduring it more. The other drives start to falter when the files get bigger, whereas the Cruzer remains at the same rate until it eventually slows too. When you take all the results into account it means that the Cruzer Profile delivers a high constant speed no matter the size of the file. Of course there is a turning point where the drive slows down when the file gets bigger.

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.

The music media types had no problems whatsoever playing. I would have expected some of the video media types to stutter, but they passed the test as well. Even when I combined several types of media and played them at once, the drive held its own, no falter or nothing. The smaller drive didn't have enough room for the HD movie but it did have room for the smaller video and sound clips and even then it didn't falter.

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.

Booting from the drive presented me with a surprise. Suddenly I have two drives to boot from, both named the same. You have to make sure the drive you want to boot from is unlocked as well. Having done all that I preceded with booting from it. DOS startup files don't come by easily, but it loads really fast once you get it going. That's because there's not much to load. Bart's PE is derived from Windows XP and works a lot like Windows PE. It is used for diagnostic purposes. Windows loads slowly at first, because it loads a lot of things in the main memory, but after that it's fine. Booting from Linux is something I have to investigate further as it's not my expertise, drop me an email if you have a good distribution and guide how to do it. Because the drive is split up you can imagine having two operating systems to boot from can be handy and it is in some cases. If the first drive was a little bigger you could boot up Linux from one drive and Windows from the other. If you do decide on booting from it, the smaller drive is named first in the default boot list, then the larger.