Size:

Before I get into any performance tests, the size of both drives was compared to two other flash drives; the Ultra Products FlyDrive and the Sandisk Cruzer Micro. The ToughDrive Mini is approximately the same size as both of these other flash drives, while the Petito is much smaller than all of them.


Testing:

Testing the two ATP Electronics brand flash drives consisted of comparing the performance with two other flash drives; a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer, and a 2GB Ultra Products FlyDrive. All of the drives were connected to USB 2.0 ports found on a system with the following components:

» Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
» AMD X2 6000+ CPU
» 4GB (4x1024MB) Patriot 4-4-4-12 800MHz DDR2 memory
» Seagate 7200.10 80GB SATA II Hard Drive
» Seagate 7200.10 500GB SATA II Hard Drive
» Windows XP Professional SP2 (current)

The following list details the tests to be executed in order to gauge performance:

» HD Tach RW 3.0.4.0
» HD Tune 2.53
» Real World Testing

HD Tach:

Simpli Software's HD Tach RW 3.0.4.0 is a benchmark dedicated to drive performance. The chart below details the reported access time, average read speed, and burst speed. Lower values are better for access time, while higher values are better for average read speed and burst speed.


The results of the benchmark show that the two ATP Flash Drives outperform the Ultra Products FlyDrive and the Sandisk Cruzer. The Burst rate and Average Read rate of both ATP Flash Drives is between 30% and 50% faster than the reference drives.