FEATURES
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USB 3.2 Gen. 2 Compliant (backward compatible with USB 2.0)
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Up to 600MB/s Read Speeds
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Plug and Play, driver free
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Durable housing protects from drops, spills, and the daily abuse
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Retractable design protects the USB connector when the drive is not in use
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Compatible with Windows® 10 Windows® 8, Windows® 7, Linux 2.4 and later, Mac® OSX 10.6 and later
If we don’t have a motherboard with a USB 3.2 gen 2 controller, we can expect lower performance.
Package and its Contents
The Supersonic Rage Prime arrived in a retail package with cardboard and blister protection for the flash drive. The package is typical for this kind of product but protects it well and gives all the info we need to know. The tested flash drive has 1TB capacity, read bandwidth is up to 600MB/s, while the package doesn’t say anything about the read bandwidth or IOPS. On the back of the package, we can see info about a 5-year warranty. That’s surprisingly long as USB flash drives usually have no more than two years of warranty.
CrystalDiskInfo also showed us something interesting. The Rage Prime flash drive is actually an NVMe SSD closed in a small package. This explains the amazing bandwidth.
The housing is made of plastic, and I already say that I see it as an advantage and disadvantage at the same time. The plastic clearly looks worse than the metal alloy, which we could see in the Rage Pro flash drive. On the other hand, with the high temperature, we would have a problem carrying the flash drive just after disconnecting after longer work. During long tests, the Rage Prime could reach 80°C. We couldn’t register more while it’s possible. As an effect, in some situations, we could see a performance drop because of thermal throttling.
Inside the Rage Prime, we found the Phison PS2251-17 controller. Considering it’s specified up to 1300MB/s and up to 2TB capacity on two channels, then we assume that Rage Prime is using one channel (because of its small size), and there is still a performance headroom for the future flash drives.
The flash drive itself looks like a regular thumb drive. It’s small has a capless design. At first sight, we wouldn’t tell that inside is something so fast … and hot.
Now it’s time for some performance tests. Let’s move to the next page.
