1 - A flashy introduction

Info: OCZ Technology

With the vast amount flash related reviews you might be thinking, Hilbert has a weird Flash fetish .. contrary dear guru. Well, my memory does work in flashes ... but Flash memories in every possible foreseeable and thinkable way are up and coming. We've seen in it mobile phone storage, camera storage, flash-disks and obviously soon we'll see wide-scale Solid State Drive penetration on the markets. Prices are coming down hard, as it's hip, cool and there's just so much diversity when it comes to flash devices.

Today therefore we land once again at the premises of OCZ technology. Recently they submitted tow new flash-drives. One is incredibly fast the other incredibly big. Both product come from OCZ's Rally line of flash-memories.

Now personally I'm getting a little tired of all the rugged flash memories, I mean .. what's the point of boiling a USB stick or driving over it? I'll opt style over rugged. And that's where the Rally seems to suit me. Incredibly handy small USB flash disks that are fast and now range up-to a 32GB file-size.

As stated we'll look at two OCZ "Rally" models today, the 4GB OCZ Rally 2 Turbo and then the colossal (in volume size) 32GB version of the Rally 2 (without the Turbo though).

Let's have a peek shall we ...