Today we tested to see if the PSP Go loads games faster off the internal 16GB storage. We tested a PSP Go game eboot load speed Vs a PSP-2004 TA-085 running a 8GB Sandisk Extreme II. Both systems have official firmware 6.10 installed. For this test we ran Grand Turismo in eboot form. Which was downloaded from PSN and installed on both systems.

Our little test only took a few minutes and it was clear to see that internal flash drive didn’t give the PSP Go any advantage what-so-ever. In fact it was about a one second slower than our PSP-2004. Could it have been because we used a faster Extreme II memory stick Pro duo? Maybe. Also since we don’t have a UMD version of GT, we couldn’t test it.

So that was an easy one. PSP Go = No advantage VS a normal PSP in flash memory loading speeds.

PSP Go 16GB flash benchmarked.

One of the big selling points of the PSP Go is its 16GB internal flash. And we realise many potential PSP Go owners want to see some real benchmarks of the new PSP Go unit. So here we go, some benchmarks / speed tests for you.

In this post we focus on the internal flash memory of the PSP Go. Its a 16GB Samsung flash chip. Non volatile flash, most of the large websites that have review the PSP..Infact all of them I think haven’t even bothered to mention the PSP Go’s 16GB flash read or write speeds. So here we did a few benchmarks of the 16GB flash speed. Here’s what we clocked.

Our flash was first formatted in the PSP Go (Only way you can do it) And we have 14GB free. In our test we used a Intel Core 2 i9000 Extreme @ 3.0 Ghz with 4GB of RAM running on Vista x64. And USB 2 of course.

OK down to the transfer speeds:

PSP Go 16GB flash Write speeds

PSP Go 16GB flash Write speeds

Sending a 1.5 GB Mp4 file to the PSP Go’s internal flash memory took just under 4 minutes And we had an average write speed of 5.8 mb/s. This isn’t bad at all, its no speed demon but at least its not like my old Nokia N95 8bg with write speeds under a megabyte per second. Transferring a huge music collection took a lifetime.

PSP Go 16GB flash read speeds

PSP Go 16GB flash read speeds

Now transferring files off the PSP Go to our PC we recorded a read speed of around 7.6mb/s. This was when we moved a 1.5 GB game eboot off our PSP Go to our PC hard drive. Again this speed is good, nothing amazing but at least its not cripplingly slow!

Now for you real tech heads out there we also did a HD Tune transfer speed benchmark for you: Results are below:

HD Tune PSP Go 16GB flash test

Here we see the PSP Go internal flash has an average transfer speed of 7.4 Mb/s and an access time of 1.2ms. Not bad at all.

Our conclusion: While the internal memory is not amazing fast its still quite zippy and that means you don’t have to wait hours to transfer your music collection to you PSP Go’s 16GB flash.

Rating: 7/10

Very acceptable speeds. Not the fastest, nor the slowest!