Performance
Tests were performed on a Lenovo M490s laptop equipped with a Core i3 3217u CPU.
As usual during flash drive tests, I have used popular storage benchmarks such as: ATTO Disk Benchmark, Crystal Disk Mark 3 and Anvil’s Storage Benchmarks. All of these benchmarks are available to download for free so all readers can easily compare performance.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
ATTO is showing rather average performance but for an USB 2.0 device I can say it is even good. Maximum sequential transfers are about 30MB/s which nears the USB 2.0 limits on most controllers.
Crystal Disk Mark 3
Crystal Disk Mark is also showing performance in random transfers. Here we see pretty good read transfers. I can not say the same about random writes. Actually most flash drives as small as DT microDuo have problems with write transfers so results in write tests are rather average.
Anvil’s Storage Benchmark
Anvil’s benchmarks are showing us sequential and random transfers but also access times and IOPS ( Input/Output Operations per Second ).
Results that we can see here are about the same as in two previous benchmarks. Sequential transfers are good while random writes are as low as in Crystal Disk Mark. As I already said it is pretty average for drives like DT microDuo so I would not worry that it will cause any issues during daily work, especially since most transfers for thumb drives are sequential.
