USB Flash Drives Compared

AnandTech: USB Flash Drive Roundup - 10/2005
Anandtech has a very thorough comparison of many of the current flash usb drives on the market. I myself love/hate the format, USB on a whole is one of the worst compromises to ever hit the marketplace. I have been much happier with a $7 PCMCIA to CompactFlash converter than with my USB drive. Your mileage may vary but anyway check out the anandtech article...

we conclude our first USB flash drive roundup, with the promise of many more to come as newer and updated flash drives become available. Hopefully, manufacturers will take note of the winners of this roundup and pay attention to what those manufacturers did right in their designs so that the next time we round up a bunch of USB drives, we see some big improvements in performance.

Honestly, the majority of drives in this roundup performed absolutely dismally, especially when looking at write performance. Companies like Kingston and Lexar proved that a very well balanced drive can be produced. Now it's time for the rest to play catch-up.