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For real world benchmarking, we take several custom made folders full of different types of files of varying sizes and time their transfer to and from the device – thereby determining its read and write speed. For the first test, we used 8GB of MKV video files. On all of our tests, the files were transferred from a Kingston V300 240GB SSD.
As you can see, read speeds are fairly impressive, coming in faster than the 90 MB/s speed Kingston advertises on the packaging. Write speeds are on the slow side, although we expected this going in as Kingston advertises a 30 MB/s write speed.
During our tests we actually observed the Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB drive sitting at 44.3 MB/s while transferring an 8GB MKV file. Much like the read speed, this is faster than what Kingston advertises on the packaging.
Next we transferred a smaller 4GB MKV file, which saw read and write speeds average a little higher this time around. Read speeds managed to hit 138 MB/s while write speeds sat at a steady 46.5 MB/s.
For our final real world performance test, we transferred a 1GB image folder to the Kingston HyperX Fury USB stick from a Kingston V300 240GB SSD. We then reversed this process to ensure that we measured both read and write speeds.
Reads went through the roof, I repeated this test multiple times and the speeds managed to stay sky high, moving the 1GB file in a matter of seconds. However, write speeds took a hit in this test, sinking down to just 32.6 MB/s.
Our real world tests show some fairly impressive numbers for this cheap little USB stick. However, it is important to note that speeds over USB 2.0 will inevitably be slower due to throughput limitations. USB 2.0 is still much more common than USB 3.0. Now let's move on to synthetic benchmarks…
