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SuomeksiXtremKey
The XtremKey is all about durability, and the drive is packed inside a thick shell that unscrews at one end and is cone-shaped towards the other. At quick glance the shell looks like steel, but actually it's made from zamac, which is a metal alloy composed of zinc, aluminum, magnesium and copper. There's a rubber O-ring going around the seam, and in fact the XtremKey is promised to be water proof to depths up to 100 meters.
Inside the shell there's the actual drive itself. As if the outer shell isn't enough to keep the memory chips safe, also the internal part is made with very thick walls for extra security. Physically then the drive is very impressive, but unfortunately there's also one flaw. The outer shell has a very stylish brushed finish, but this doesn't really offer a proper grip for opening and closing the drive. This problem could be prevented by either making a coin slot to the bottom of the drive, or making the surface rougher for overall better grip.
Performance
Besides the extreme survivability, the XtremKey is also supposed to provide some extreme performance. To put these claims into test, the raw write and read speeds were tested using the HD Tach software. With small file sizes the write- and read speeds are down, as can be expected from any thumb drive, but in the larger file tests the read speed hit the USB 2.0 maximum of about 32 MB/s and the write stayed at a respectable 14 MB/s. The numbers gathered here show great performance for an USB-drive.
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