Real Word testing

A more usual test is to simply copy a file from a fast Raptor HDD towards the flash-disk and simply observe how fast it writes. We moved a 3.5 GB sized compressed file to observe a real world copy test.

OCZ 4 GB Rally 2 Turbo - The write (copying to the flash disk) speed of the drive is pretty okay. We measure roughly 14 MB per second write speeds based on a FAT32 formatted stick.

OCZ 4 GB Rally 2 Turbo - Reading however is so much faster. We now copy the 3.5 GB file back towards the HDD and notice pretty dandy speeds of 33 MB/sec.

OCZ 32GB Rally 2 - Now with the 32Gb stick we can verify our initial sythetic testing. The write (copying to the flash disk) speed of the drive is much slower opposed to the turbo version. We measure roughly 5 MB per second write speeds based on a FAT32 formatted stick.

OCZ 32GB Rally 2 - The read speed from this large volume sized stick however is amazingly fast. Very reputable performance here.

Mind you; this is real-work usage, nothing synthetic about it. We tested on high-end gear by the way. A test system based on nForce 680i - Core 2 Extreme 6800 - 2GB DDR2 1142 MHz - USB 2.0 - Windows Vista Business Edition. I also checked the read/write speeds on an Intel based platform, the results are 100% similar.