USB thumb drives have come a long way, but as capacities increased by leaps and bounds, how quickly that data could be moved about started to became more important. Once USB drives hit the 4GB mark, people started to notice that the USB 2.0 interface was ill equipped to handle really big data transfers... a much faster interface was needed and USB 3.0 rose to the occasion.

USB 3.0 is clocked at a respectable 4.8Gbit/s, by comparison, USB 2.0 staggers along at 480Mbit/s, about 10X slower and vastly too slow for moving +8GB .MKV files back and forth. The rule of thumb PCSTATS goes by is this; 8GB and lower is fine for USB 2.0, 16GB and higher better be USB 3.0!

In this review PCSTATS is checking out Lexar's stylish 64GB JumpDrive Triton - a nice looking retractable thumb drive housed in a weighty metal alloy case. Lexar's USB 3.0 thumb drive is rated for speeds of 155MB/s read and 150MB/s write -- that's pretty quick. For a clearer picture of its capabilities PCSTATS will need to benchmark the Lexar JumpDrive Triton against comparable USB 3.0 drives of similar capacities.