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Maxell Maxstix 1GB USB Flash Drive Review
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Posted by Wendy Collins
Posted on 23/07/08 00:21
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Test machine

For this review we will be using a computer with the following configuration:

Hardware:

  • Motherboard: ASUSTeK P5K (Intel P35 chipset)
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
  • RAM: 4 GB OCZ Platinum dual channel kit DDR2 800
  • GFX: ATI HD 4870 (512 Megabytes GDDR5 HDCP compliant)
  • Sound: Onboard Realtek ALC882 HD audio controller
  • Hard disk: 2X 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (SATA 2)
  • Case: ThermalTake Armor (silver)
  • PSU: Enermax Liberty 620W
  • Display: Samsung Syncmaster 245B 24” widescreen LCD (HDCP compliant)
  • Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium (64 bit) with SP1
  • Benchmarking software: HD Tune Pro V3

 

Benchmarks

For these tests, we will use HD Tune Pro 3 and will conduct reading benchmarks. As a reference we also tested an LG 2GB USB 2 flash drive, so we had some data to compare. Both flash drives were set as “optimised for quick removal” in device manager.

LG reference test

Reference Benchmark

Maxell Maxstix benchmark

Maxell Maxstix benchmark

Summary:

Nothing bad to report here, the Maxell Maxstix was slightly faster than our reference LG flash drive.

Let’s move on to the next page where we test file reading and writing performance...

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Posted by usbdude (guest) on Wednesday 06 August 2008 23:28
Review say: Because of the price and performance of the Maxell Maxstix 1GB flash drive, we decided to award the drive our CD Freaks “Safe Buy” award.

price is cheap, but performance?? Read speed is low 15mb/s and write speed less than 10mb/s. Not a top notch performance. Other USB drives can do lot faster.

And who use 1GB these days?
Posted by hax0rth0r on Monday 11 August 2008 13:21
I think flash drives are going to be obsolete. With the size of portable hard drives getting smaller and capacity larger. I see no point to carry 1 gig when I can easily carry 1tb
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