SanDisk Cruzer Titanium U3 2 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

In these tests you see that the Cruzer Titanium has a high average transfer rate, with burst of 19 MB/s. That's very impressive. The access time is also very low.

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.

These tests passed with flying colors. Even when combining documents or files the drive does not falter. This is only to be expected of a drive with such capable speeds.

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.

As with other U3 drives, this drive is split up into two volumes. One volume can't be updated to hold an operating system, because it holds the neccesary files for the U3 Launchpad. The other volume however, presented me with no problems what-so-ever to boot from, making it easy on me. The speed of the drive makes it possible to comfortably boot an operating system. Of course it's no speed racer, but it will do the trick.