Around 15 months ago, when the 64GB Triton was released, it had one of the highest write speeds (177 MB/s) available on a consumer flash drive. Despite its great sequential performance and superb aesthetics its RRP of £129.99 priced the drive out of the mainstream flash drive market at that time. Today the same drive is available on Amazon for around £80 but the USB 3.0 flash drive landscape has changed significantly over the last 15 months. There are now competitors, such as the 64GB Sandisk Extreme, with both better overall performance and a lower price point than the 64GB Triton. Lexar will release an new range of faster P10 flash drives in the next few months, these newer drives promise to deliver record breaking performance. [Mar '13USBFlashPro]
This could have been a serious contender in the high speed USB 3.0 arena. On paper at least, with 260/220 MB/s read/write speeds, this drive would have had the highest sequential speeds we have seen to date on a 64GB drive. The GT Turbo was delayed by several months by Corsair, and when finally released it proved to fall far short of the advertised headline speeds. In reality it can only write at around 80 MBps and has an extremely weak 4K Random write speed. Corsair have offered refunds to the multitude of unhappy customers that bought this drive in anticipation of it setting new speed records. There are far faster drives available. [Aug '13USBFlashPro]
We highlight the best USB flash drive in terms of balanced performance and value for money using current prices, sequential read, sequential write , 4k read and 4k write speed. The speeds are combined to form a single effective speed which measures performance for tasks such as copying photos, music and videos. Effective speed is adjusted by current price and capacity to yield value for money. Finally thousands of individual user ratings are used to validate our benchmark figures. [USBFlashPro]
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