![]() ![]() With the Cruzer Blade, SanDisk has joined the ranks of companies offering ultra-small USB flash drives. While the Cruzer Blade had no problems holding its own when reading, it took more than four minutes to write our test data. This benchmark gives each drive an overall score, or "Drive Index," based on the results of its read and write tests. ![]() One of Sandra's more useful tests is the File System benchmark. While I am not a big fan of SiSoftware Sandra's optical drive benchmarks, it is a great tool if you want to test a system's performance quickly and easily. When tested with ATTO, the Ultra Backup topped out at 19.9 MB/s when reading and 5.5 MB/s when writing. The test was run using blocks ranging in size from 0.5KB to 8192KB and the total length set to 256MB. I also used ATTO Disk Benchmark to test the Cruzer Blade's sequential read and write speeds. Looking at the screenshot above, you can see that the Cruzer Blade had average read and write speeds of 19.1 MB/s and 5.7 MB/s, respectively, as well as a burst speed of 20.2 MB/s. The performance here was very similar to what we saw with CrystalDiskMark. Next, I used HD Tach to test the Cruzer Blade's read, write and burst speeds as well as its seek times and CPU usage. Using CrystalDiskMark we can see that the drive is able to read at nearly 20 MB/s and write at 5.7 MB/s. SanDisk doesn't really say what kind of speeds the Cruzer Blade is capable of. This benchmark tool measures the performance of a storage device by testing its sequential read and write speeds as well as its random read and write speeds using blocks 512K and 4K in size. To get a feel for the "real world" performance, I also copied and pasted 500MB of random files and directories in Windows Explorer.įirst, I ran a few quick tests using CrystalDiskMark. To test the performance of the SanDisk Cruzer Blade, I ran a series of benchmarks using CrystalDiskMark 3.0, HD Tach RW 3.0.4.0, ATTO Disk Benchmark 2.46 and SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2010.SP2. For the operating system, I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Enterprise. The computer came equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz CPU, 2GB of DDR2 800MHz memory, Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250310AS 250GB SATA hard drive, NVIDIA Quadro FX570 256MB PCIe graphics card and Intel 82567LM-3 gigabit network card. The test system used in this review was an HP dc7900. ![]()
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