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Testing The GeeDom
The sustained write speed of any USB flash memory drive is a very important aspect to consider before you decide to buy it. That's because a slow write speed can limit the usefulness of large flash memory drives. Imagine writing 1GB of data at just 300KB/s!
GoldenMars did not specify any read or write speeds for the GU-P05 drive, but they are marketing it as a high-speed version of their GU-P04 value flash drives. Let's find out what exactly is their definition of high speed.
To test the performance of the GoldenMars 1GB GeeDom GU-P05 drive, we used our proprietary filesets. Here are the details of the filesets we used :
Filesets |
Size |
Files |
| Large Files (MP3) | 200,007,492 bytes
|
35 MP3 files |
| Small Files (Documents) | 200,007,960 bytes
|
2004 HTML files 41 PPT files 124 DOC files 162 XLS files |
Test Bed
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 ES - 2.4 GHz core clock - 4MB L2 cache |
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| Motherboard | MSI P965 Neo | |
| Memory | Two Mushkin 1GB XP2-5300 DDR2 memory modules | |
| Graphics Card | NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (256MB) | |
| Hard Drives | ||
| Flash Drives | Corsair 4GB Flash Voyager OCZ 2GB Rally OCZ 1GB Rally OCZ 1GB Mini-Kart GoldenMars 1GB GeeDom GU-P05 OCZ 512MB Rally |
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| Operating System | Microsoft Windows Vista | |
| Power Supply | Mushkin 580W PSU |
Read Performance
Large Files (MP3)
The GeeDom GU-P05 managed to sustain a maximum read speed of 11.8MB/s. This is hardly stellar compared to the performance-oriented flash drives from OCZ and Corsair. Of course, you have to pay a premium for that performance.
Since this test was designed to stress flash memory chips, we can deduce that GoldenMars is using relatively slow flash memory chips. At this speed, it will take about 84 seconds to completely read the entire contents of this 1GB flash drive.
Small Files (Documents)
Oddly enough, the same results were repeated in the small files test. Unlike the large files test, this test was designed to stress the flash controller. As you can see, flash drives are not quite as fast with small files as they are with large files.
Again, the GeeDom GU-P05 wasn't particularly fast, compared to the performance-oriented drives in the comparison. It wasn't stellar performance by any means, but it is a value-line drive in the company of mostly high-performance flash drives.
