The fastest USB sticks?

What are the fastest currently available USB memory sticks?

I found that 30/20 MB/s for read/write are the fastest among those available in Germany and the brand name is GeIL (or G.E.I.L) - Gold Series or Titanium USB2.0 Pen Drives.

Do there exist other equally fast or faster USB sticks? Under which brand names and where there are sold?

Thanks!

EDIT: The producer site www.geil.com.tw/

 

http://www.kingston.com/digitalmedia/datatraveler_home.asp

"Kingston DataTraveler Elite DataTraveler Elite"

is one of the highest rated for speed and duriblity

some reviews: http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/08/10/two_fast_and_functional_usb_flash_drives/

 

Can't go wrong with Kingston, they've been in the memory business for a very long time. Never had a bad RAM module or busted thumbdrive from them.

 

yup! i have been using a 512MB data traveler about an year now and completely satisfied with its performance.

 

Thanks guys. Kingston is no doubts reputable and good but it is not the fastest.

I found something new, interesting and faster: ATP ToughDrive.
A review: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=344&num=1#

 

It seems that GEiL USB sticks are faster that Kingston. See e.g. here:
Dual Channel USB Pen Drive
http://www.geilusa.com/proddetail.asp?linenumber=70

Does someone have experience with them?

Here there are some benchmarks:
http://www.hardware-test.dk/ht/test_show.asp?id=4759
(Sorry, the text is in Dannish).

 

The Sandisk Cruzer Titanium is fantastic.

 

OCZ Rally.

 

According to my data it is not that fast: 13/15 MB/s for write/read.

For OCZ Rally I found 17/25 MB/s for w/r. It is on the level of the best ones, though not the best available yet.

 

The table of the read/write speeds of various USB sticks
http://www.pcwelt.de/tests/hardware-tests/usb-sticks/119012/index2.html
(all you need to know from German here is that lesen=read, schreiben=write).

 

My Cruzer Titanium's a bit old -- it was considered fast when I bought it.

The one thing I have to say against Kingston USB drives is they do not fit nicely on a keyring. If you like carrying your drive with your keys, this isn't a good choice. It sticks out at an awkward angle and makes it impossible to fit the keys comfortably in your pocket.

 

check the Patriot Xporter XT - Anandtech lists read speads up to 39 MBps for the Version 2. and IIRC there are some Corsair Flashvoyager GT drives that are quick.

 

Check this:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/08/16/summer_2006_memory_stick_fashion_show_uk/page11.html

Crucial Gizmo flash drives are very fast ... Superb transfer rates and super quick access time.

 

Looking for a good 4 GB flash drive. Any recs? I need it to move some files from my desktop to my laptop and don't want to shell out the bucks for another external hard drive. Thanks in advance.

 

I'm a big fan of my OCZ Rally 2 4GB stick. It's very compact and very fast. It's one of the few true dual channel memory sticks available. I know that there are some faster but they are somewhat bulkier IMO.

 

Hey,

those who like their USB sticks could make us a favour and post the result of their test with a simple HDTune program. It can measure read/write speads both for internal HDDs and external memory devices (eg usb, cf, sd, etc).

 

The fastest USB stick I know of is the Buffalo RUF2-R series (32MB/s read). But they don't sell it in the US. (Weird - it's available in Europe and Asia, just not USA.)

http://buffalo.jp/products/catalog/item/r/ruf2-r/

Buffalo do sell the RUF2-S series in the US which is still fast but not as fast (27MB/s read).

Other fast sticks are A-Data PD7 200x and PQI U339 170x.

The Corsair Voyager is actually not that fast. I'd say in the teens. Not in the same league as those >25Mb/s. But it's very durable.