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Release date: Q3 2012.

Effective Speed 
+212%
Real World Speed
Performance profile from 4,276 user samples
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4,163 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 93% 30GB free, PID 5580 @USB 3.0
Worst Bench: 25% 26GB free, PID 5580 @USB 2.1
Poor: 25% Great: 93%
SPEED RANK: 9th / 639
113 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 31% 15GB free, PID 1a09 @USB 3.0
Worst Bench: 9% 4GB free, PID 1a09 @USB 2.1
Poor: 9% Great: 31%
SPEED RANK: 212th / 639
Effective Speed
Effective USB Speed 		63.8 % Hugely faster effective speed.
+212% 		20.4 %
Peak Score 
+272%
Read
Peak Sequential Read Speed 		202 MB/s Much faster peak read speed.
+31% 		154 MB/s
Write
Peak Sequential Write Speed 		117 MB/s Hugely faster peak write speed.
+149% 		47 MB/s
4K Read
Peak 4K Random Read Speed 		11.8 MB/s 15.9 MB/s Much faster peak random read.
+35%
4K Write
Peak 4K Random Write Speed 		10.1 MB/s Hugely faster peak random write.
+941% 		0.97 MB/s
Value & Sentiment 
+189%
Value
Value For Money 		30.1 % Hugely better value.
+552% 		4.62 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating 		57 % More popular.
+12% 		51 %
Price
Price (score) 		$28 +4% $29
Nice To Haves 
+1%
Age
Newest 		119 Months 118 Months +1%
Specifications 
Capacity
Capacity 		32GB 16GB
Conclusion 
Average Bench 63.8%
Average Bench 20.4%
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The 16GB Sandisk Extreme has led my USB 3.0 Flash drive group test since it was released back in Jun '12. Often with flash based devices, write speed scales linearly with capacity and the Extreme is no exception. The sequential write speeds for the different capacities are: 16GB = 62 MB/s, 32GB = 117 MB/s and 64GB = 188 MB/s. In the 64GB category there are several alternatives to the Extreme including the new Corsair Flash Voyager GT Turbo, Kingston HyperX and Patriot Supersonic Magnum. In the 16 GB category there are also a few viable alternatives but in the 32GB category I have yet to come across a drive that even comes close to the Sandisk Extreme from either a value for money OR performance perspective.  [Mar '13 USBFlashPro]

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The 16GB Corsair Flash Voyager GT is an above average performer. With burst sequential read/write speeds of 130/24 MBps the GT has a reasonable large file performance profile. The GT clocked in an effective speed of 73.6 MB/s which puts it amongst the top 25% of 16GB USB 3.0 flash drives. The peak small file 4K read/write speeds of 18.8/0.93 MBps demonstrated by our four samples are remarkable. These speeds mark the Voyager GT as the fastest 4K reader and the fourth fastest 4K writer amongst all the 16GB flash drives we have tested to date, a very impressive result. [Feb '14 USBFlashPro]

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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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