Nowdays USB pen drives are becoming very diffused, because of their usefulness and convenience... and also because of price drop 😉 In the market there are many different models available, and often the main parameters used by people to select the one to buy include max storage capacity and device's fanciness. Max storage capacity is an important parameter, and also the design has its importance, but there are some other features that should be considered, like transfer rate speed, manufacturing accuracy, and reliability.
Not always the more costly is the better product, but very often cheaper devices are not the best performing ones. However, even if important, the price is not the main parameter to consider to select a product to buy.
How does one go to select the right device then? At playfuls.com there are reported some interesting
tricks very often disregarded, but that can make the difference. As
remarked by Boi Feddern, editor at the Hanover-based magazine c't:
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Under certain circumstances the slowest in the pack may need ten times as long: they read at less than 10 megabytes per second (MB/s) and write at 3 to 4 MB/s. |
The above, referred to data transfer rate speed, is only an example of the wide differences between currently available products, but more details can be read in the original article here.
Source: playfuls.com
