Ok, Thanks for those links guys, b/c that led me to this, which has the *EXACT* kind of detail I wanted on these drives!
http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67674 I did mention that I get obsessive about this stuff, right? :P John, my only concern with the OCZs is that their reliability seems questionable based on checking around on lots of sites (reading the reviews on Newegg and Amazon etc; yours may be fine but when you take a larger sample)...but yeah, the xbitlabs perf tests were *extremely* thorough (best I've seen yet), so thanks for that link Greg! I just do worry about reliability and losing data, so am still going to have to do some more research and hopefully decide by tomorrow! ;) Too bad they don't make the Voyager GTs anymore, as a 16GB GT would probably be pretty sweet! :P BINO -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John R Steinbruner Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 7:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] The straight dope on USB drives...and is SDHC related?! I've got 2 of the Rally2 16 giggers, nice little thumb drives. Also have a couple older 4 giggers. Been using only the OCZ dual data channel Rally's for a couple of years. On Jan 8, 2009, at 7:15 PM, Greg Sevart wrote: > 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. >> >> > > > -- JRS steinie**[email protected] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
