Synthetic tests are a good indication of performance, however we all need to know how the drives handle with real world windows tasks and that is what this part of the review will be dealing with. First we will take a 460 megabyte zip file on an internal SATA Hard drive and copy it both to and from each OCZ drive.

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If you have followed this review from the start you will notice the results follow on from the synthetic testing earlier, the 512 meg drive giving faster results when reading and the 2GB model giving faster results when writing. Both drives are handling this test exceptionally well and dont feel dramatically slower than an internal SATA Hard drive.

 

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For the test above, we stressed the drives by creating a 280 megabyte folder of 2,119 small files comprising DLLs, JPGs, TXT and HTML documents. We can see that flash drive technology is still some way behind hard drive technology when it comes specifically to writing a multitude of smaller files. The read results however are excellent with both drives being able to move the data to the internal hard drive in around half a minute.

 

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