Iomega mini64 USB drive

[sodface]

I just got back from a business trip in sunny San Diego where I got a cool freebie from the customer: an Iomega mini 64mb USB drive.

http://www.sodface.com/download/Mini64.jpg

In my informal tests I was able to write a 42.1 MB file to the drive in just over a minute. (62.75 seconds)

Sandra test is below.


SiSoftware Sandra

Test Status
SMP Test : No
Total Test Threads : 1
SMT Test : No
Dynamic MP/MT Load Balance : No
Processor Affinity : No

Combined Device Index
Combined index : 1254 operation(s)/min

512B Files Test
Read Performance : 5682 operation(s)/min (47 kb/sec)
Write Performance : 942 operation(s)/min (8 kb/sec)
Delete Performance : 1439 operation(s)/min
Combined index : 2025 operation(s)/min

32kB Files Test
Read Performance : 1523 operation(s)/min (812 kb/sec)
Write Performance : 602 operation(s)/min (321 kb/sec)
Delete Performance : 1462 operation(s)/min
Combined index : 1041 operation(s)/min

256kB Files Test
Read Performance : 241 operation(s)/min (1028 kb/sec)
Write Performance : 139 operation(s)/min (593 kb/sec)
Delete Performance : 1419 operation(s)/min
Combined index : 211 operation(s)/min

2MB Files Test
Read Performance : 31 operation(s)/min (1058 kb/sec)
Write Performance : 22 operation(s)/min (751 kb/sec)
Delete Performance : 1260 operation(s)/min
Combined index : 30 operation(s)/min

Drive
Total Size : 62MB
Free Space : 60MB
Cluster Size : 1kB

[eva2000]

nice gadgets :D Guess that's a USB1.1 device and shouldn't it be in memory forum http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/forumdisplay.php3?s=&forumid=17 since it's actually a memory device ?

seems your device has fast delete performance :)

for a comparison with 2 other flash drive devices

usb2.0
http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php3?s=&postid=5149#post5149

sandisk cruzer usb1.1
http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=272

[sodface]

Yes, it must be a 1.1 device, performs much slower than the ones you reviewed (which I didn't see until after I posted this :( ) I didn't know whether to put it here or in memory, I chose here as Iomega calls it a 'USB Drive'. I agree that it is more a memory device than a drive, however, it is designed to be used more like a drive than it is memory. CF and other flash memory mostly exist to be put into other devices like cameras and mp3 players - these usb sticks (not the memory in them) are designed for users to treat like a removable drive. Who knows:confused:

[RotorHead]

Thats cool!

I wonder if you could use it to boot up a router or somthing, heck even a PC.

RH

[eva2000]

Originally posted by sodface
Yes, it must be a 1.1 device, performs much slower than the ones you reviewed (which I didn't see until after I posted this :( ) I didn't know whether to put it here or in memory, I chose here as Iomega calls it a 'USB Drive'. I agree that it is more a memory device than a drive, however, it is designed to be used more like a drive than it is memory. CF and other flash memory mostly exist to be put into other devices like cameras and mp3 players - these usb sticks (not the memory in them) are designed for users to treat like a removable drive. Who knows:confused: i think most think of it as storage but i like to think of it as memory first, storage second hehe

[eva2000]

Originally posted by RotorHead
Thats cool!

I wonder if you could use it to boot up a router or somthing, heck even a PC.

RH seitec usb2.0 i revied and this iomega aren't bootable i don't think

Transcend JetflashA usb ones are though

[Mikki]

Nice for getting all that stuff you download at work and taking it home....hehe :p:rolleyes:

[eva2000]

Originally posted by Mikki
Nice for getting all that stuff you download at work and taking it home....hehe :p:rolleyes: or placing all those benchmark apps, drivers, IIA, intel inf and motherboard and video card setup disks on for new setups :)

[sodface]

Rotorhead -

This thing was collecting dust behind some empty diet coke cans on my desk - I finally saw it again tonight and decided to play with it a little. You CAN boot to it. I booted to a win98se cd-rom, ran fdisk and it shows up when you choose option 5 to change fixed disks. Fdisk will only allow you to have one active partition so I disabled IDE0 in the bios to temporarily disable my hard drive - rebooted to the CD and did a format /s C: (the usb stick shows up as drive C: ) then set 1st boot device to usb-hdd and it booted right up.

This may come in handy at some point as I don't have a floppy in this machine. Who knows where in my computer room this memory stick will migrate to by then though :)

[RotorHead]

Who knows where in my computer room this memory stick will migrate to by then though

hehe....thats what the key ring is for :p

A couple of those would work great in some dedicated Folding Machines :D

RH