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This drive beats the rest hands down. Even the Kingston HyperX 3.0 vs. Sandisk Extreme: no contest ... The HyperX 3.0 has a very slightly faster headline read speed (240 vs 215) MB/s but looses to the 64GB extreme in every other benchmark category (512k, 4K, 4K QD32), and by a long way. The Extreme also costs at least 20% less than the HyperX. I do daily incremental backups of a directory containing 40K files and 3K folders, it takes a few seconds on the extreme compared to around 30 seconds with every other flash drive I have tested. The key strength of this drive is its real world usability. [Zefram]
The Plextor M5 delivers fantastic performance and sits within easy reach of the top two or three SSD's currently available. The most remarkable aspect of the M5's performance is consistency. It takes the first and second positions in both the AS-SSD total score benchmark and the Real World Speed Index which means it will cope fantastically with both real world consumer workloads and deep queue depth server workloads. Aside from its blistering performance we also like the fact that this drive uses the latest Marvell controller which has not suffered any of the reliability issues that plagued some of the early Sandforce based drives. When this drive first hit the shelves in September '12 it was overpriced but since then prices have dropped by nearly 40% making it currently both one of the cheapest and best performing drives available, a combination we like a lot. [SSDrivePro]
This drive can be used as a combined system and storage drive thanks to its fast 7200K rpm and enormous 3TB capacity. Recently prices for all large drives have been dropping and this is currently a really good choice in terms of value for money and performance. Not only does this drive have respectable sequential read/write speeds but it also goes head to head with the various green options, consuming a very reasonable 5.4W vs 5W (idle) on average for a "green" drive. That amounts to a tiny power consumption disadvantage and a lot more speed. [Zefram]
This could be a serious contender in the high speed USB 3.0 arena. On paper at least, with 260/220 MB/s read/write speeds, this drive has the highest sequential speeds we have seen to date on a 64GB drive. The GT Turbo is currently unavailable in the UK but we're itching to review its performance in 4K random write speed tests. Historically Corsair flash drives have struggled in this area and this drive will need to prove itself in order to fare well in the now very competitive USB 3.0 Flash Drive market. The Voyager GT Turbo vs the Sandisk Extreme will be an interesting contest. The Turbo has a clear lead in terms of headline sequential speeds but the Extreme currently dominates the all important real world 4K read/write speeds. [USBFlashPro]
This drive, the latest from Samsung, takes SSD technology a small but clear step forward. It excels in the area of deep queue depth 4k random writes where It outperforms all of its direct competition. The brand new and almost impossible to get hold of Plextor M5 is currently the strongest competitor to the Samsung but until prices on the Plextor drop from an astronomical £250, Samsung have an easy win despite not having priced the 840 particularly aggressively themselves. [Zefram]