Testing Rig:

• Intel Core Duo E6600 Processor
• 2 GB Kingston PC2 5300
• ASUS P5B Motherboard
• ASUS EAH 4850 Video Card
• 500watt PSU
• 320GB Seagate SATA 2 HD
• LG DVD SATA burner
• Creative Fatal1ty Audio Card
• Windows XP SP3

Testing:

For the testing I will be using the program Flash Memory Toolkit. I will run both the Low Level and File Benchmarks. For comparison I will be using the mimobot 4GB RayD8 Flash Drive. We will see how the ATP EarthDrive USB Flash Drive performs against The Mimobot RayD80 4GB.

  Low Level Benchmark:

EarthDrive:

Mimobot:

File Benchmarks:

Earth Drive:

 Mimobot:

It looks like earth friendly doesn’t necessarily mean pansy hippie grade. The ATP EarthDrive USB Flash Drive performed better in every test but the 5MB test. I am very impressed the ATP was quite literally of the charts for performance in the low level bench mark. Let’s check out the final thoughts: