CONCLUSION

   When the atom 128GB USB 3.0 flash drive arrived here along with the impact although I was very impressed by its tiny size I can’t say that I liked its plastic enclosure much (I still don’t since it looks a lot like a toy). Still when trying to find a really fast yet tiny USB flash drive you can’t be very picky so the next step was to check and see if the performance numbers advertised by Mushkin were accurate. Well to our surprise it seems that Mushkin gives very conservative numbers (much like Kingston) for the atom drive since in our tests it even surpassed the 200MB/s mark in read. Of course in write things are almost what Mushkin reports since the highest recorded number didn’t even hit 40MB/s (still quite higher).

   What about price? Mushkin has done a great job in that area too since currently the atom 128GB USB 3.0 flash drive costs just USD39.95 inside the USA (Amazon.com) and for 39.05Euros inside the EU (Amazon.de). Yes the atom write performance falls behind that of most (if not all) full sized USB 3.0/3.1 flash drives in the market today (it’s still better compared to the almost as large DT Micro 3.1) but its read performance is not half bad and since we’re talking about one of the smallest models in the market the overall result is well worth our Golden Award.

PROS

- Tiny Size
- 4g Weight
- 128GB
- Read & Write Performance (Compared to Equal Size Models)
- Price (For Some)

CONS

- Enclosure (Quality & Design)