Blazing Dual Channel Thumb Drive

Anonomisk Howard writes "The speed results from Big Bruin's review of OCZ's latest flash drive have me lusting for a new thumb drive. From the review: 'The OCZ Rally drive is not a radical new design, it does not look significantly different than any other USB 2.0 drive on the market, but then you plug it in and begin to use it. This thing smokes! The transfer times shown in the charts are what this drive is all about. If you want the fastest, sleekest, and most extreme drive currently on the market, this is the one to get.'"

Comments

but why

[JustNiz]

Why do they make these usb key drives so friggin' big? THe electronics inside is probably like 1cm square.

Whats with all the redundant plastic?

Sponsors?

[Valiss]

Actually, my boss is looking to get in more advertising for our company. Appearantly, he wants me to do the web ad stuff. Is it actually possible to sponsor an article on /. or do we have to use the banners?

I figured you were being sarcastic, but honestly I've seen so many 'articles' on this site, that maybe you were being serious.

Depends on what you use them for

[Sycraft-fu]

Mine is for systems maintenance. We are always dealing with broken systems of one variety or another at work and you can't gaurentee net access since often they are infected and thus why we are daeling with them. So my key has things like 2000 SP4, XP SP2, a virus scanner, patches, etc.

Well, espically for the service packs (I have one of these particular USB drives) the extra speed is really nice. Takes long enough as is. Also very nice for if I need to grab another program to install. Say they need Eclipse installed. Well I don't keep that on the drive, but I can put it on there, nearly as fast as an HD copy.

It's not critical or anything, but it's nice. The less waiting, the better.

Re:How much?

[Homology]

How much do advertisements like this cost? Sure could use some publicity like this for my business. That summary sounds like it was pasted from some webstore. The most extreme thumbdrive? Please.

On top of that it was just plain stupid, and as usual the "geeks" of /. just fell for it.

Basic questions

[spitzak]

Okay, I guess I'm not a big enough geek to directly recognize whether something is fast or slow. Need some basic questions answered:

1. What is the transfer rate of this thing?
2. What is the fastest that could be done based on the USB port design?
3. What is the transfer rate to a typical internal hard disk?
4. What is the transfer rate of a typical USB thumb drive?
5. What is the transfer rate of a typical large external USB drive?

Printing a few ratios would go a long way to knowing whether this really is a big deal.

"real world speeds"

[j1mmy]

I like how his "real word" test involved copying cd images of commercial software. Just what does he use this thing for?

Re:pe

[jtorkbob]

I disagree.

I had 'nerd' in my job title once. There is a light saber in my car. I laugh at things like 'OCT 31 = DEC 25'. I have read User Friendly daily for 7 years. I alternate between science fiction and science fact in my reading. I have a room containing approximately 1400 feet of spare cables. I throw parties (by myself) for important milestones in the up-time of my servers.

My wife is not a nerd. She's a social genius who works with old folks - kind of the opposite of a nerd. She watches "Top Model". She owns a hair straightening device. Perhaps most importantly, she is unaffected by caffeine.

We met online, of course, and have been married for almost six years. Nerddom doesn't preclude marriage - it just makes it harder to achieve.