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Synthetic benchmarking is useful as it gives us a good indication of ultimate drive performance under scientific conditions, however people are using these drives under real world conditions – for example to copy across files and to backup important data.
For our first test, we located an 8 gigabyte MKV file on our OCZ Agility 2 SSD drive and copied it across to the Kingston Data Traveler Ultimate 64 GB unit recording the time taken under both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 situations.
Copying our 8GB file to the drive took 2 mins and 31 seconds which when repeated under USB 2.0 limitations took a whopping 6 minutes and 15 seconds. This is much faster and is clearly a huge time saver if you need to move large files between drives.
Our next test involved copying a 5GB folder of mixed file sizes. Word documents, music files, image folder and a few movie clips. This is going to be very much a real situation for many people who will be backing up folders with a multitude of files within them.
In this test we can further see the gains to be had when using the drive under USB 3.0 situations with the time reducing from 8 minutes and 21 seconds to 4 minutes and 44 seconds.
