In order to test the Flash Survivor GT, I will be subjecting it to a few benchmarks: IOMeter, ATTO Diskbenchmark, Crystal Disk Mark and HD Tach. I won’t cover any installation details because it is plug and play – no drivers or software required. I will compare performance on my Windows XP machine against a rival flash drive. The Flash Survivor GT is also compatible with Windows 7.

Control

• CPU: Intel C2D Q6600 (G0 SLACR L731B434) @ 2.71GHz

• MB: Asus P5E3-Dlx Wifi-AP Edition
• GPU: Sapphire HD 4850 X2 Catalyst
• RAM: Aeneon 2×2GB XTune DDR3-1600 (AXH860UD20-16H) @ 1800MHz 10-10-10-30 1T
• PSU: Cooler Master Real Power Pro 850W
• CPU Cooling: Thermalright HR-01 w/ 120mm Antec Tri-Cool Fan
• PWM/NB/SB Cooling: Stock/Stock/Stock
• HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache (ST3808110AS)
• OS: Windows XP Pro SP3

USB Flash Drives

• Corsair Flash Survivor GT

• OCZ ATV Turbo

IOMeter
IOMeter is an I/O subsystem measurement and characteristic tool for single and clustered systems initially designed by Intel.

IOMeter is both a workload generator (that is, it performs I/O operations in order to stress the system) and a measurement tool (that is, it examines and records the performance of its I/O operations and their impact on the system). It can be configured to emulate the disk or network I/O load of any program or benchmark, or can be used to generate entirely synthetic I/O loads. It can generate and measure loads on single or multiple (networked) systems.

I configured IOMeter to create a 1GB file on the target device and it will pull the performance over 5 minutes and report back the average transfer rate for various block size transfers: 4KB, 16KB and 32KB.

ATTO Diskbenchmark
ATTO Diskbenchmark is an old but popular benchmarking tool. It captures the read and write performance at different transfer sizes for a fixed file size.

Crystal Disk Mark
Crystal Disk Mark tests the read and write speed for a user selected file size at three different transfer rates: sequential, 512K and 4K. I selected a 1000MB test file.

HD Tach
The previous benchmarks only test a portion of the drive and in order to see the performance from start to finish, I switched to HD Tach for the finale.

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