OCZ Ultra-Slim Mini-Kart 1GB
Performance:
Before sharing our test results, it is important to note that the OCZ Mini-Kart is not designed to be a blazing fast storage medium. Instead, the engineers had taken the innovative (and unique) route of going for a miniature device that uses only a single memory chip. OCZ has stated to Phoronix that it is not a performance-oriented device; however, even still its results are certainly competitive with other drives in the market. No water submersion or shock tests were done with this unit due to no stated compliance.
| Hardware Components | |
| Processor: | Intel Pentium D 820 @ 3.3GHz |
| Motherboard: | Abit AW8-MAX (i955X + ICH7R) |
| Memory: | 2 x 1GB OCZ DDR2-1000 |
| Graphics Card: | NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX 256MB |
| Hard Drives: | Seagate 300GB SATA2 |
| Software Components | |
| Operating System: | Fedora Core 5 |
| Linux Kernel: | 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 SMP (x86_64) |
| GCC - GNU Compiler: | 4.1.0 |
| Graphics Driver: | NVIDIA 1.0-8756 |
| X.Org: | 7.0.0 |
Using Fedora Core 5 with the 2.6.16 kernel, we faced absolutely no compatibility troubles between Linux and the OCZ Mini-Kart. We had also tried the USB flash device with Ubuntu Dapper Drake and other popular Linux distributions, during all of which we faced no signs of apparent problems. The drives used for comparing the OCZ Mini-Kart were the Corsair Flash Voyager 4GB and Transcend JetFlash 1GB. For benchmarking, we used hdparm and timed file copies. Overall, its performance was satisfactory considering its size, and we had run into no troubles with our Linux testing.