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The Supersonic Xpress USB 3.0 flash drive brings the speed and performance of USB 3.0 at an affordable price. Featuring a stylish cap-less design that hides the USB 3.0 connector when not in use, the Supersonic Xpress works like a pen to reveal the USB connector. Transfer data in a flash with speeds up to 60MB/s read and 25MB/s write when connected to a USB 3.0 port. No USB 3.0 port? The Supersonic Xpress is backwards compatible to USB 2.0/1.1 and comes with a 2-year limited warranty.
This review is from : Patriot Memory (Direct) Supersonic Xpress 32 GB Flash Drive (PSF32GXPUSB)
Pretty good performance for a USB drive . I bought this drive from a B&M because it was on sale. I won't mention the name since it is probably verboten in an Amazon review, but suffice to say that, like Amazon, they're an authorized reseller.Performance :This is a USB 3.0 device but backwards compatible with USB 2.0 (and 1.1, of course, but you'll grow old filling this drive at USB 1.1 speed). The drive came pre-formatted in NTFS. The package says "up to 60 MB/s read / up to 25 MB/s write". I tested it on my i7 920 computer with USB 2.0 and h2testw. I managed to get about 30 MB/s read and 19.4 MB/s write. h2testw writes large files, and has been pretty accurate for sustained large read / write numbers. It is possible that on a USB 3.0 system, I might get better result, but these numbers are pretty decent for a USB flash drive.Edit 10/17/11. I reformatted it as FAT32 and re-ran the test. The results were pretty much the same. In fact, it is slightly less than 1 MB/s slower with FAT32 for reads.If you're not familiar with h2testw, it is a small, free, Windows utility that will write large (1 GB) files of pseudo-random data to your drive, and read it back to verify that there are no errors. I recommend doing this, as it not only gives you a rough idea of how fast your device is, it also ensures you did not end up with a fake drive (a smaller drive altered to appear as a larger one).Physical :The drive is a lot thicker than the photo shows. The white part is 10mm thick (almost 0.4"), and the dark blue part is 7mm thick. Hold on to the white part and push the end of the black part (like a pen), and the USB connector comes out from the other end. There's a spring inside and it clicks and locks just like a retractable pen. Push it in again to retract the USB connector. There's nothing to close the opening when retracted, so dust or moisture could easily get in. It's advisable to keep this in your laptop bag instead of your pocket. On the plus side, there's no cover to lose.The mechanism makes it a little awkward to insert and remove. The spring retracting mechanism doesn't feel all that sturdy, so I try to insert and remove by pushing or pulling on the dark blue part. Unfortunately, when the USB connector is exposed, there's very little area to hold on to.There's a small hole to tie this to a lanyard on the edge of the dark blue part of the drive. No lanyard is provided.Electronics :I looked up the device under Windows Device Manager. The Vendor ID is 13FE and PID is 5000. According to a device database I could find on the Internet, the controller is a Phison P2251-01-M. According to the manufacturer's website, the controller supports "multiple partitions and hidden mode". I've not been able to test flipping the removable bit with Lexar's BootIt under XP, however. If anyone has something they would like me to try please leave me a message in the comments.Conclusion :When I purchased this, it's about the same price as the other (slower) USB flash drives of comparable size. I'd rate it 4.5. The only thing keeping me from giving it a 5 is the lack of a mechanism to keep dust out, the plastic exterior, and in a small part the inflated performance numbers on the packaging.
Pretty good performance for a USB drive . I bought this drive from a B&M because it was on sale. I won't mention the name since it is probably verboten in an Amazon review, but suffice to say that, like Amazon, they're an authorized reseller.Performance :This is a USB 3.0 device but backwards compatible with USB 2.0 (and 1.1, of course, but you'll grow old filling this drive at USB 1.1 speed). The drive came pre-formatted in NTFS. The package says "up to 60 MB/s read / up to 25 MB/s write". I tested it on my i7 920 computer with USB 2.0 and h2testw. I managed to get about 30 MB/s read and 19.4 MB/s write. h2testw writes large files, and has been pretty accurate for sustained large read / write numbers. It is possible that on a USB 3.0 system, I might get better result, but these numbers are pretty decent for a USB flash drive.Edit 10/17/11. I reformatted it as FAT32 and re-ran the test. The results were pretty much the same. In fact, it is slightly less than 1 MB/s slower with FAT32 for reads.If you're not familiar with h2testw, it is a small, free, Windows utility that will write large (1 GB) files of pseudo-random data to your drive, and read it back to verify that there are no errors. I recommend doing this, as it not only gives you a rough idea of how fast your device is, it also ensures you did not end up with a fake drive (a smaller drive altered to appear as a larger one).Physical :The drive is a lot thicker than the photo shows. The white part is 10mm thick (almost 0.4"), and the dark blue part is 7mm thick. Hold on to the white part and push the end of the black part (like a pen), and the USB connector comes out from the other end. There's a spring inside and it clicks and locks just like a retractable pen. Push it in again to retract the USB connector. There's nothing to close the opening when retracted, so dust or moisture could easily get in. It's advisable to keep this in your laptop bag instead of your pocket. On the plus side, there's no cover to lose.The mechanism makes it a little awkward to insert and remove. The spring retracting mechanism doesn't feel all that sturdy, so I try to insert and remove by pushing or pulling on the dark blue part. Unfortunately, when the USB connector is exposed, there's very little area to hold on to.There's a small hole to tie this to a lanyard on the edge of the dark blue part of the drive. No lanyard is provided.Electronics :I looked up the device under Windows Device Manager. The Vendor ID is 13FE and PID is 5000. According to a device database I could find on the Internet, the controller is a Phison P2251-01-M. According to the manufacturer's website, the controller supports "multiple partitions and hidden mode". I've not been able to test flipping the removable bit with Lexar's BootIt under XP, however. If anyone has something they would like me to try please leave me a message in the comments.Conclusion :When I purchased this, it's about the same price as the other (slower) USB flash drives of comparable size. I'd rate it 4.5. The only thing keeping me from giving it a 5 is the lack of a mechanism to keep dust out, the plastic exterior, and in a small part the inflated performance numbers on the packaging.
Patriot Memory (Direct) Supersonic Xpress 32 GB Flash Drive (PSF32GXPUSB) Reviews
USB 3.0 Drive IS definitely faster on my ASUS Laptop . I think Lenny (1st review above) failed to mention that his test program has not been tested to work accurately on USB 3.0. On paper, USB 3.0 is capable of transfer speeds of up to 5Gbps (gigabits per second); that's a little over 10 times faster than USB 2.0's 480Mbps (1,000Mbps equals 1Gbps). In practice, it won't always be this much faster -- mileage may vary depending on hardware configuration -- but it will always be much faster than USB 2.0.The New York Times decided to test this "10 times faster" line, so it used brand new USB 3.0 hard drives and a desktop computer with an ideal configuration for transferring data over a USB 3.0 cable. In the test, writer Rik Fairlie copied a folder containing 10GB of files. He did this once over USB 2.0 and once over USB 3.0. The USB 3.0 connection took 6 minutes, 31 seconds, and the USB 2.0 connection took 22 minutes, 14 seconds. That's still a dramatic improvement (USB 3.0 was about 3.5 times faster), but it doesn't live up to the marketing hype.Other real-world tests have produced similar results -- 23 seconds for 500 photos on 3.0, 1 minute and 12 seconds on 2.0 from Amazon, for example. TweakTown clocked the actual speed at 2.8Gbps. That's still mighty impressive. USB 3.0 is significantly faster than its predecessor; it's the difference between 20 miles per hour on a side street and 70 on the highway. It'll get you where you need to go much more quickly. I backed up our office back-up files, which are a mix of documents, photos, videos, and voice recordings. They took 2 minutes and 17 seconds to write on this drive from my ASUS NQ73JQ notebook with 12Gb RAM, 49 seconds to read/transfer back. My old Patriot USB 2.0 drive took 7 minutes 9 seconds to write, 5 minutes 13 seconds to transfer back the same back up files. Buy this drive IF YOU HAVE A 3.0 USB PORT and you won't be disappointed - well worth the money.
USB 3.0 Drive IS definitely faster on my ASUS Laptop . I think Lenny (1st review above) failed to mention that his test program has not been tested to work accurately on USB 3.0. On paper, USB 3.0 is capable of transfer speeds of up to 5Gbps (gigabits per second); that's a little over 10 times faster than USB 2.0's 480Mbps (1,000Mbps equals 1Gbps). In practice, it won't always be this much faster -- mileage may vary depending on hardware configuration -- but it will always be much faster than USB 2.0.The New York Times decided to test this "10 times faster" line, so it used brand new USB 3.0 hard drives and a desktop computer with an ideal configuration for transferring data over a USB 3.0 cable. In the test, writer Rik Fairlie copied a folder containing 10GB of files. He did this once over USB 2.0 and once over USB 3.0. The USB 3.0 connection took 6 minutes, 31 seconds, and the USB 2.0 connection took 22 minutes, 14 seconds. That's still a dramatic improvement (USB 3.0 was about 3.5 times faster), but it doesn't live up to the marketing hype.Other real-world tests have produced similar results -- 23 seconds for 500 photos on 3.0, 1 minute and 12 seconds on 2.0 from Amazon, for example. TweakTown clocked the actual speed at 2.8Gbps. That's still mighty impressive. USB 3.0 is significantly faster than its predecessor; it's the difference between 20 miles per hour on a side street and 70 on the highway. It'll get you where you need to go much more quickly. I backed up our office back-up files, which are a mix of documents, photos, videos, and voice recordings. They took 2 minutes and 17 seconds to write on this drive from my ASUS NQ73JQ notebook with 12Gb RAM, 49 seconds to read/transfer back. My old Patriot USB 2.0 drive took 7 minutes 9 seconds to write, 5 minutes 13 seconds to transfer back the same back up files. Buy this drive IF YOU HAVE A 3.0 USB PORT and you won't be disappointed - well worth the money.
Patriot Memory (Direct) Supersonic Xpress 32 GB Flash Drive (PSF32GXPUSB) Opinions
Fast and reliable . i love the space and the usb 3.0 but it is hard to plug in at times cause the majority of the case is the white area and it slides forward when plugging it in. i find i can do it fine with a little practice. overall not a bad drive
Fast and reliable . i love the space and the usb 3.0 but it is hard to plug in at times cause the majority of the case is the white area and it slides forward when plugging it in. i find i can do it fine with a little practice. overall not a bad drive
Not bad. Not really USB 3.0 speeds though . Just got the Patriot Xpress 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive. I have been backing up iTunes and other file-intensive folders to it. I'm getting a write speed of 12 meg/second. That's not a bad write speed -- for USB 2.0. However, this is a USB 3.0 drive plugged into a 3.0 USB port. I was expecting something ... faster. For a 2.0 drive it'd be perfectly adequate, and even if it was a 2.0 drive the price wouldn't be bad at all for 32 gigs. BUT, that said, it is not giving me 3.0 performance. I give it 3 stars, for a good value for the money but not living up to its promise.
Cons Review
Cheap plastic housing . The drive is fine. I really enjoyed using it for the last 19 days since receiving it.
However, the plastic loop that the lanyard attaches to broke today, and Circuit City (the seller) refused to initiate an RMA because they start their 30 day window from the date ordered. Now I've got to try and get a hold of Patriot Memory, but their website is apparently having issues - the RMA generation times out.
This drive is just fine if you don't plan on attaching it to something to avoid losing it. If you do, though - keep looking for other alternatives. It WILL break. I can only give the item 2 stars because it is no longer useful to me.
However, the plastic loop that the lanyard attaches to broke today, and Circuit City (the seller) refused to initiate an RMA because they start their 30 day window from the date ordered. Now I've got to try and get a hold of Patriot Memory, but their website is apparently having issues - the RMA generation times out.
This drive is just fine if you don't plan on attaching it to something to avoid losing it. If you do, though - keep looking for other alternatives. It WILL break. I can only give the item 2 stars because it is no longer useful to me.
Feature Patriot Memory (Direct) Supersonic Xpress 32 GB Flash Drive (PSF32GXPUSB)
- USB 3.0 compliant for fast read/write performance
- Up to 60MB/s read
- Up to 25MB/s write
- Backwards compatible with USB 2.0
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Product Details
EAN : 0815530011842UPC : 815530011842
MPN : PSF32GXPUSB
Brand : Patriot
Weight : 1 pounds
Height : 1 inches
Length : 3 inches
Width : 2 inches
Binding : Personal Computers
Manufacturer : Patriot Memory
Model : PSF32GXPUSB
Publisher : Patriot Memory
SKU : 815530011842
Studio : Patriot Memory
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