just got the flash drive today and ran a benchmark. the speeds on this are impressive for the money. the cover the for the flash drive is built in and cant get lost which is a bonus for me.
I use USB flash drives for my Roku Ultra as well as sending photos and videos to my distant daughters. As I seldom get them back, I am always on the look out for new excellent quality flash drives at a reasonable price. These are it! These are a great price, and excellent quality. They are rated as 3.0 which is 10 times faster than 2.0 assuming you have a compatible 3.0 port on your device. But if not they are backward compatible. I have not had any problem at all with then, transfer rate is excellent, and they are small I can mail them with no problem. They work extremely well with my Roku. Just plug it into the Roku USB port and viola it is off and running. I will definitely buy these again!
Just as described. To share a bit of information for folks that could be helpful. These (most if not all thumb drives) are formatted to MS-FAT32. What does that mean for you? If you wanted to use this on a Mac then you'll need to reformat it using your Mac's Disk Utility. If your're like me (I use a Mac) but want to be able to use it between a Mac and a PC (Windows) then that's done by reformatting it on your Mac. You will want to open your Mac's Disk Utility, select the thumb drive, then select "Erase", it will then allow you to format type, choose the "Ext drive" format, it's as simple as that and you can now use it flawlessly between a Mac and PC. Please note, your Mac will still recognize this drive without making any changes at all however you won't be able to use it until the format is changed to be compatible.
This drive is GREAT!
Pros:
Small size but with giant capacity
There is a LED light
No cover to lose, its a slider cover where the cover slides down to protect the usb adapter
USB 3.0 / 128GB at a great price
Cons:
Plastic
I did 2 tests with Lan speed test writing and reading a 100MB file
On USB2.0 port on my dell xps, I get:
~24MB/s Write
~27MB/s Read
On Macbook Pro USB 3.0, I get:
~80MB/s write
~192MB/s read
Lets see how long it last...
(Update) been using it half year and still going strong.... will update again later..
PLEASE READ MY EDIT BELOW:
Worked great for a little while (6months). Now I constantly get drive errors and need to scan and fix them. The biggest issue is now it takes forever for all my laptops to recognize this USB drive. I have around 20 USB drives of different sizes and I tested on all my laptops, servers etc and this PNY USB drive takes almost 30seconds to even be recognized, while the others are picked up right away. Write transfer speeds constantly drop to 0 while transferring files and sometimes moving/copying a 14MB file or any small file takes around 5mins because you never know when the drive will decide to start working and finish the copy/move process.
USB drives have been made for so many years. How they screwed this up, I have no idea
EDIT:
So turns out it was partly (mostly) user error on my part. The drive was FAT32 out of the box and I never noticed it. It would not let me copy files over 4GB because of this. As to why the drive was freezing up and taking forever to be recognized on my different systems, I still have no idea.
I reformatted it NTFS or exFAT which allows for higher file sizes. Anyways after formatting my disk gets picked up by the OS almost instantly. And I've used it for a couple years now and it's chugging along pretty good. I'd definitely recommend buying with the caveat that you check to make sure the disk is formatted to a more modern file system type.
Feature Product
- Transfer speeds approximately 10 times faster than standard PNY USB 2.0 Flash Drives
- Store and transfer large files faster than ever with USB 3.0 technology
- Allows for quick and easy transfer of all content
- The 64GB Turbo USB 3.0 Flash Drive can hold approximately 11,837 songs
- Sliding collar, capless design with integrated loop makes it easy to attach to key chains, backpacks and etc.
- Backwards compatible with USB 2.0 ports, so you can utilize any USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 port; compatible with most PC and Mac laptop and desktop computers
- Free technical support
Description
PNYs Turbo 3.0 is Built for Speed & Convenience Get the most out of the USB 3.0 port on your new computer. Experience USB 3.0 next generation speed performance with transfer speeds up to 10X faster than standard PNY USB 2.0 Flash Drives. It’s the perfect solution for easily storing and quickly transferring all your large documents, high-resolution photos, HD videos, and more. USB 3.0 offers the same ease-of-use and plug-and-play capabilities as previous generations of USB technologies, but with exceptional speed improvements. Designed for Reliable Portable Storage PNYs Turbo 3.0 USB Flash Drive is designed with convenience and portability in mind. The portable, light-weight Flash Drive incorporates a sliding collar cap less design that means for no more lost caps. This USB 3.0 Flash Drive is small in size, but big on performance
This flash drive is a very good storage solution for large files. These days the multi-Terabyte hard drives store massive amounts of data. You still need to back it up once in a while, in case of a hard drive failure. This device is a good solution. Even the huge video or ZIP files, 5Gb or larger, can be easily stored on this flash drive. Just remember to format it in NTFS. The good old FAT32 can't handle the big chunks.
I've seen the other reviewers' comments about data getting corrupted. Well, when you're dealing with GIGABYTES of data being copied you need to be patient. It's not a hard drive. It happened to me too but then I've learned I need to wait until the red LED in the unit stops flashing. It may say on you screen "the copying finished" but there's still some activity happening. You should pull the flash drive out when that LED stops blinking. "Patience, grasshopper"
I ordered this flash drive two years ago for $20, and I am still using it! It got me through college as an IT student, I have had a few problems with it, but for the most part this has been a great flash drive. The biggest problem I have had with it, would be the fact that I have had to reformat it twice. Once it stopped saving and keeping certain files (most would become corrupted and I couldn't use them) the other the flash drive itself was corrupted. For me that wasn't a big deal (I got pretty upset about losing my files though) because reformatting is a quick and easy fix. The other problem would be the fact that the plastic outside is somewhat cheap and breaks. There's a little key hole to put a keychain on it, and that broke so I could not put it on a keychain for easy access. Other than the few minor problems, this has been a pretty handy flash drive, and its still kicking, even after all of the work I've put it through. I am currently using it to house ROMs, so I would say I'm giving it a pretty heavy workload. Overall I would definitely recommend this flash drive. It is an excellent buy for the money.
A reasonable USB3 flash drive, with solid read speeds, slow-but-adequate write speeds, and a built-in protective slider cover.
In sequential r/w testing, the brand-new drive wrote at 18.9 MB/s, and read at 109.8 MB/s-- the difference as expected for low-end flash devices. (tested using 1MB blocks directly to the device, connected to a USB3 port on a modern system)
The slider is actually my least favorite part of the design. It's intended to protect the connector, while not getting immediately misplaced like the typical removable cap. Unfortunately, it doesn't actually work-- the end is open, allowing lint to get into the opening. And worse, it takes an unexpected amount of force to open/close. Enough that at first I couldn't tell if it was meant to slide down or slide off, it simply wasn't moving. The cover is just a bad design.
I'm not a fan of the sliding cover, and I prefer to have an activity LED (this unit doesn't have one). But flash drives are commodity-priced, and as of this writing, this was one of the best priced name-brand USB3 flash drives at $10. And I have fond memories of using the PNY brand for my RAM provider in my early PC builds. Shop around since NAND prices fluctuate regularly, but Recommended at this time.
This is a great drive, 60 dollars for a 128gb USB 3.0 drive is definitely good enough. I already had PNY's SD card, so I knew they made good flash products.
The benchmark showed up quite nice as well.
Sequential Read : 197.193 MB/s
Sequential Write : 104.529 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 151.087 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 32.768 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 4.596 MB/s [ 1122.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.110 MB/s [ 26.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 5.005 MB/s [ 1221.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.085 MB/s [ 20.6 IOPS]
Test : 100 MB [F: 0.1% (0.1/119.2 GB)] (x5)
Faster than Patriot or Corsair's lower tier USB drive models.
The... externals of this drive, though, is somewhat flimsy and the 'slide' mechanism is not quite as comfortable feeling as the big-name makers'. It's somewhat stiff and a bit too tight to operate, and I hope actually sliding it frequently won't break it off.
Other than that, I don't see any fault with this wonderful drive.
This was the first 3.0 thumbdrive I bought. I wasn't sure how much difference it would make. Would would it really run at 3.0 speeds? Would it really be the full 64G. The answer is yes. According to my PC there is a thin slice of memory I can't get to but it is effectively 64G and it absolutely runs at 3.0 speeds. I Have even raced it with a 2.0 thumb drive (same files. Same machine) Yah. I'm a bit of a PC geek. This thing has become my favorite for moving big files around machines when I want to air-gap them. Around the house it's become "my" thumbdrive and the rest of the family know to leave it alone. It's been three years. I think I deserve another one. I'll try to report back on it three years from now.
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