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Earlier this month we rounded up twenty USB flash drives and pitted them against each other in our first comparison of portable flash media. The results were surprising, we found that while many drives offered competitive read performance, the vast majority of them performed absolutely abysmally when it came to write performance.

All flash drives are not created equal however, and we noted that many drives made use of premium controllers that resulted in not only high read speeds, but very high write speeds as well.

At the end of the day, Kingston and Lexar both walked away with an Editor's Choice award for absolutely stellar performance among the competition. Kingston's DataTraveler Elite and Lexar's JumpDrive Lightning both offered some of the fastest read speeds and consistently high write speeds as well, while the competition generally stumbled in one or both categories.
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Read More / Source: AnandTech