Well, performant SLC drives tap out at 8GB, so you're looking at MLC-based devices only.
The 32GB OCZ Rally2 is pretty much the fastest in that capacity. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/print/32gb-usb-flash.html Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bino Gopal > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] The straight dope on USB drives...and is SDHC related?! > ... > > So anyone been able to find out the straight dope on this? It seems to > me > that reviews need to get into SLC vs MLC (SLC being faster but not as > big as > the MLC ones) and maybe even what controller chip they use, as that > might > affect performance too, but no one (at least in reviews I've found) > seem to > get into that level of detail on a regular basis. > ... > > > > Any recommendations based on what people have and links to back that > up? > I've considering spending the cash to get up to 32GB, as that becomes a > good > backup solution, and could be persuaded to 64GB if there's some > significant > performance gain to it. > >
