1-2 of 2 Answers
It is backward compatible
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.HI Rick, Your mileage may vary, but Crystal DiskMark 8.0.4 x64 had this to say about a drive I purchased only hours ago with it attached to a low-end desktop's USB 3 Type A port: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4 x64 (C) 2007-2021 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes [Read] SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 124.367 MB/s [ 118.6 IOPS] < 66966.05 us> SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 121.001 MB/s [ 115.4 IOPS] < 8649.10 us> RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 7.916 MB/s [ 1932.6 IOPS] < 16519.54 us> RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 5.502 MB/s [ 1343.3 IOPS] < 743.74 us> [Write] SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 74.461 MB/s [ 71.0 IOPS] <107195.03 us> SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 58.726 MB/s [ 56.0 IOPS] < 17829.76 us> RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 0.644 MB/s [ 157.2 IOPS] <157044.81 us> RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 0.485 MB/s [ 118.4 IOPS] < 7214.38 us> Profile: Default Test: 1 GiB (x5) [E: 0% (0/231GiB)] Mode: [Admin] Time: Measure 5 sec / Interval 5 sec Date: 2021/08/11 12:05:03 OS: Windows 10 Enterprise [10.0 Build 17763] (x64) Comment: PNY Attache 4 256 GB USB 3.0 Type A Flash Drive Note that USB Flash Drives should ABSOLUTELY NEVER be used for tasks requiring random read/write access to the drive, as they're extremely slow for that purpose and it'll wear them out very quickly. The numbers you care about are the sequential performance numbers, and the most important is the "Q= 1, T = 1" number, which was 121 MB/s read and 58.7 MB/s write. Hope this helps!
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.
