Super Talent Readying SuperSpeed USB 3.0 “RAM Drive”
Super Talent is fast becoming synonymous with USB 3.0 flash drives. Following the RAIDDrive (the world’s first USB 3.0 SSD RAID0), SuperCrypt and Express, the company outs USB 3.0 Express RAM Cache. The aptly-named thumbdrive is said to implement some sort of DRAM caching system with the sole purpose of boosting small block random speed by up 110x over USB 2.0.
While such performance claim awaits to be examined, Super Talent is definitely taking this into the right direction. Flash drive benchmark scores have always focused on sequential read and write even though real-world usage involves mostly transfers of smaller pieces of data. This includes data synchronization and OS virtualization. This is where a caching system would pay off. Measuring at 62 x 37 x 7.5mm, the Super Talent USB 3.0 Express RAM Cache is between the size of the RAIDRive and the Express. We hopefully this so-called RAM drive would strike a balance between affordability and performance scalability.