Corsair USB 3.0 Flash Voyager Drives: EXT4 vs. NTFS vs. Btrfs vs. F2FS

F2FS won in the first FS-Mark test run followed by EXT4.

F2FS also edged past EXT4 in the second FS-Mark run dealing with sub-directories while Btrfs was slower and NTFS was in a distant last place.

EXT4 came out just ahead of the Flash Friendly File-System for IOzone's write test.

From these basic file-system benchmarks carried out on a 16GB Corsair USB 3.0 Flash Voyager flash drive, EXT4 and F2FS were doing the best. Using the FUSE-based NTFS file-system was by far the slowest and in the case of FIO the results were invalid and untrustworthy. If you are interested in this Corsair Flash Voyager drive with 16GB of storage and five year warranty for just $10 USD, you can find it at Amazon.com.