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Written by Dusan Srbljak
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
SanDisk, as one of mayor flash memory manufacturers, naturally has big USB flash drive portfolio. It’s very hard to stand out, when there is a huge amount of different USB flash drive models from different manufacturers on the market. Generally speaking, you can only recognize a specific type only by its different USB casing. Design of casing is something that all manufacturers pay attention to attract more customers. On the other hand, in the eyes of final user a big plus is always bigger capacity and speed of data transfers.
SanDisk Ducati Extreme is a device which has a lot to offer, regarding to earlier mentioned features. It is impossible not to mention that the casing of this USB flash was made from metal and really gets impression of “ultra-quality” device. Shape of casing, without any doubt, resembles of fuel tank from some Ducati super-bike, which is used as inspiration for casing design. SanDisk went into detail so much that USB’s LED for transfer signalization is in shape of stop light on modern racing motorcycles. Although the design is very robust and inspire confidence and we can only say that design is just phenomenal. But SanDisk didn’t stop there; they went further and made a “speed devilish” device. It’s enough to take brief look at the table with test results and to conclude that this is one speed champion in our test lab. SanDisk Ducati flash drive itself has 4GB memory. It doesn’t have a USB connector cap but instead connector (golden one) can be pulled in and out using simple and robust mechanism. And this is a great solution, considering the fact that author of this text lost tons of USB flash drive caps in the past.
We established the fact, by thorough testing, that SanDisk Ducati transfers are equalized and transfer curve is approximately straight line and almost ideal. This is a result of high quality chips that are built in this USB flash drive, and that fact is important to underline, because some manufacturers use not so known “tricks”. For example, let’s say that some USB flash drive has 4 GB memory and only first 1 GB has transfer speed at 18 MB/s and after that (for the rest of 3 GB) speed drops at 7 MB/s. Only the first integrated chip is fast and for the rest manufacturer used chips that are not so fast. “Ducati” that we have tested didn’t have this kind of problem. In same package with SanDisk Ducati Extreme you will get rescuePRO Deluxe application which can be very useful and a life time warranty for device that is just another plus. Price tag of about 50€ doesn’t seem so high anymore regarding: great design, robustness and high transfer speeds.
SanDisk Ducati Extreme
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HD Tach
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Average Read
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28.7 MB/s
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HD Tune
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Average Read
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27.3 MB/s |
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