The following system was used for testing:

CPU: Intel E8400
MB: Gigabyte P35-DS3R
RAM: Mushkin XP2-8500 2x1GB
Video: Biostar GeForce 9600GT
PSU: Ultra X3 1000W
HD: WD 250GB SATA
DVD-Rom: Lite-On 18x DVD Burner SATA
Cases: Antec Three Hundred
OS: Microsoft Windows XP w/ SP2

Comparison USB drives:
Patriot Xporter XT 32GB
Kingston DataTraveler Secure 2 GB
Kingston DataTraveler Secure Privacy Edition 2 GB
n-Trance n-Tegrity Pro 1 GB

For testing I used the following programs to gather data:
-Sisoft Sandra Lite XII.SP2c File System benchmark
-Simpli Software HD Tach 3.0.4.0
-NodeSoft Diskbench

All programs were run three times and the average of those scores was used as the final result.

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To start off with, I ran them through Sandra's file system benchmark. The Xporter XT Boost easily outperforms all of the drives in 4 out of the 7 tests, falling behind only on the Buffered Write and Random Write tests.

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Next I ran them through Sandra's Removable Storage test. Results here kind of surprised me, but you can see that the Xporter XT fell behind both Kingston drives and just barely edged out the n-Trance drive in Device Index score. Endurance factor scores put it in between the n-Tegrity Pro and DataTraveler drives.

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Now it is on to SimpliSoftware's HD Tach benchmark. I ran all of the drives through the Long Bench tests. The Xporter XT Boost easily outpaces the other drives.

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Finally I ran them through NodeSoft's Diskbench using a 516,000 KB file in the Copy File test. As you can see once again, the Xporter XT Boost outperforms all of the other drives and confirms that this is quite a speedy drive.


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