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Crucial Gizmo! 256MB

November 20th, 2003 | by Rob Curtis

Setup and Installation

Installation of the drive was very easy with Windows XP as my OS automatically recognized the drive and installed the drivers. Installation on Windows 98 is a manual process. The user must download the appropriate driver from the Crucial website and then install manually. Follow the onscreen instructions, reboot and connect the drive to any available USB port. The Gizmo supports USB 2.0 and is backwards compatible with USB 1.1.

Benchmarks

We fired up SiSoftware Sandra 2003 Professional and benchmarked the drive with the following results:

The software performed these test with a 20MB file and were repeated 4 times. The next graphic shows how the Crucial drive compares to other storage devices.

File transfer tests:

This test used a 114MB file that was transferred from hard drive to flash drive and then back. This test was performed on a desktop as well as laptop machine and was repeated 3 times. There was no noticeable difference between the desktop and the laptop.