USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0 Corsair Flash Drive
Benchmarking 16GB USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 Corsair Flash Voyagers with the F2FS file-system from the Linux 3.8 kernel. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com.


USB 3.0 Flash Voyager: 

	Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2-devel (git-d8d58bd) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + Clang 3.3 (SVN 176002) + LLVM 3.3svn, File-System: F2FS, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

USB 2.0 Flash Voyager: 

	Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2-devel (git-d8d58bd) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + Clang 3.3 (SVN 176002) + LLVM 3.3svn, File-System: F2FS, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
USB 3.0 Flash Voyager . 18.13 |================================================
USB 2.0 Flash Voyager . 6.57  |=================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
USB 3.0 Flash Voyager . 17.53 |================================================
USB 2.0 Flash Voyager . 6.23  |=================


Dbench 4.0
Client Count: 1
MB/s > Higher Is Better
USB 3.0 Flash Voyager . 47.19 |================================================
USB 2.0 Flash Voyager . 38.47 |=======================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
USB 3.0 Flash Voyager . 3731 |===============================================
USB 2.0 Flash Voyager . 3886 |=================================================