10 USB Sticks compared

The manufacturers have made some progress since we last tested USB flash drives in our labs. Almost all major brands have mastered dual-channel memory controllers and large-capacity memory chips. With the ongoing introduction of “thinner” tech processes into flash memory manufacture, the cost of chips is getting lower at such a fast rate that Moore’s law may look retarded in comparison. Talking about absolute capacity records, Pretec has recently announced a USB drive that can store as much as 16 gigabytes of data!