Patriot Rage vs. Cheap USB Sticks: Is It That Much Faster?

As PC users, we have had our fair share of slow USB sticks and wanted to see if a "high speed" USB stick can live up to the claimed speeds. Today, we will see if the claims are true of the Patriot Supersonic Rage Elite 128GB. The Patriot will be tested against low-cost USB sticks for comparison.

Test Machine:

• Intel i9 10850k

• ROG STRIX Z590-E GAMING WIFI

• 32 GB RAM

Sandisk Ultra Flair 32 GB

USB 3.0

• Read: 154.46 MB/s
• Write: 60.53 MB/s

ADATA UV260 32 GB

USB 2.0

• Read: 19.71 MB/s
• Write:  7.74 MB/s

Samsung BAR 128 GB

USB 3.1

• Read: 22.84 MB/s
• Write:  5.86 MB/s

Maybe this was a defective unit...???

The claimed read speed of up to 300 MB/s was not achieved in our tests.

Patriot Supersonic Rage Elite

USB 3.2 Gen 1

• Read: 553.03 MB/s
• Write:  527.97 MB/s

Results

If you're looking for speed, the Patriot Supersonic Rage Elite offered above-advertised speed, during our test, and is certainly fast. As far as the cheaper USB drives go, our results showed the Sandisk Ultra Flair having good performance. The others are...functional.