Twintech Goodies - A closer look
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Manufacturer: | Twintech Industry, Inc. |
| Products: | Firefly USBee & Translucent Flash Drive |
Price: | USD$54.95 (64MB Firefly USBee + free
32MB Translucent Blue Flash Drive) |
Availability: | In stores and online now |
Reviewed By: | Kaoman |
Edited By: | Mack "SPeeD" |
The package and contents of the Translucent Flash Drive on the other hand, is very small/scarce. It comes with the flash drive and a small guide notifying the user of a few informative notes and system requirements.
The Translucent Flash Drive does not come with P.I. Protector. It does, however, have a read/write protect switch on its side. It also has a small, red LED. The drive is, like the name says, translucent, and this variant is blue. Twintech also sells shades of "tangerine," aqua, red, and purple. It is slightly larger, but lighter than the USBee.
Here are some more shots of the USBee, Translucent Flash Drive, and EasyDisk USB/my watch for comparison, as well as a picture of the LEDs in action.
Both USB flash drives, as most are, plug right into the USB port and work right away. Windows ME, 2000, and XP all recognize the drives while 98 requires drivers. I am not positive about Linux or NT however.
Performance
I did three tests, two of them not are not as "formal" as the first... but nonetheless they all sufficiently benchmark SPeeD. The test lineup is:
64MB Firefly USBee
32MB Translucent Flash Drive
64MB CompactFlash w/ USB reader
64MB Smartmedia w/ USB reader
Internal 100MB Zip Drive
Test system: 1.8ghz Dell system w/ 640mb ram and Windows XP Pro.
Before we begin, here are some photos of the Smartmedia, Compactflash, and USB flash reader, in order, that I used.
The first test is none other than SiSoft Sandra.
Sandra scores are formulated after a combination of buffer read, sequential read, random read, buffered write, sequential write, random write, and access time. As shown, both the USBee and Translucent Flash Drive perform as rated; a writing/reading speed of approximately 900~1000kB/s. The USBee is probably slightly faster than the Translucent Flash at these Sandra tests only because it is a larger drive. Both the Compactflash and Smartmedia with the USB flash reader performed at about the same speeds as the flash drives, evidence that besides the physical connection between flash memory to USB, they really are identical. The internal 100MB Zip Drive scores a poor 749kB/s, but as you will see in the following tests, it really is much faster than all its flash memory competitors.
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