Comments on: Kingston Ultimate GT 2TB Flash Drive Review – All that Space! https://www.thessdreview.com/hardware/flash-drives/kingston-ultimate-gt-2tb-flash-drive-review-space/ The Worlds Dedicated SSD Education and Review Resource | Wed, 12 Apr 2017 03:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Greg Zeng https://www.thessdreview.com/hardware/flash-drives/kingston-ultimate-gt-2tb-flash-drive-review-space/#comment-23970 Wed, 12 Apr 2017 03:58:00 +0000 https://www.thessdreview.com/?p=95497#comment-23970 Running these flash drives on my (old, 2013) Dell XPS-15 notebook gives variable results. Each of the notebook’s three USB 3.0 drives has consistently different benchmark results. Probably because the hardware, etc is so worn-out, now after four years.

Crystal Disk Benchmark is the quickest, easiest to run. Because the app is “upgrading” a few times yearly, I generally use the latest version, oping that the results do not vary. Always on the same & fastest USB 3.0 hardware port, without any other CPU demands when benching.

Even then I find Crystal Disk Benchmark varies a few percent, each run. Single-run, or multiple run; it varies. The factory default is the average of five runs. Even this varies, each five-run session.

The big advantage of Crystal Disk Benchmark is that it has a data-base ready file save of results (cut & paste from the htm file), as well as a GUI image summary of the reports. Falsh drives seem to report similar results, independent of the file size afaik. So quick tests are on five-runs of the smallest file size.

Other speed i-o bench tests seem too fussy, etc imho.

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