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Amazon has 256GB SanDisk Ultra Luxe USB 3.1 Gen 1 Flash Drive (SDCZ74-256G-G46) on sale for $12.49. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+ orders.

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About this product:
  • Elegant, full cast metal design to protect your files from the outside
  • High-performance USB 3.1 (Gen 1) w/ up to 150MB/s speeds
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Amazon [amazon.com] has 256GB SanDisk Ultra Luxe USB 3.1 Gen 1 Flash Drive for $12.49. Shipping is free with Prime or on $35+ orders.

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$37.51 lower (75% savings) than the list price of $50
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Looked like a good deal until I read the product description:

"Write Speed 15 MB per second"

One more product to avoid...
I have the 128gb version and it slows to about 10 MB per second because it gets so hot.
Why is this on front page , it has been this price for 90+ days. This site is turning into trash

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04-11-2024 at 10:37 PM.
04-11-2024 at 10:37 PM.
Just bought one. It's good if kids need for a school. Worst case if they loose it's not a big deal.
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04-12-2024 at 12:35 AM.
04-12-2024 at 12:35 AM.
Quote from bassilap :
Data sheet shows higher speeds (up to 150MB/s)
https://support-en.wd.com/app/pro...web/p/8780 [wd.com]
That's read speeds.
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bassilap
04-12-2024 at 04:26 AM.
04-12-2024 at 04:26 AM.
Quote from BlueRaccoon1085 :
That's read speeds.

You're right. But write speeds up to 15x faster than USB 2.0 which is 53MB/s. so theoretical max of 53*15 which is 800 ish. https://www.westerndigital.com/to...sb-3-1.pdf
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jaybone909
04-12-2024 at 08:32 AM.
04-12-2024 at 08:32 AM.
YMMV? Showing $19.78 for me.
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04-12-2024 at 07:43 PM.
04-12-2024 at 07:43 PM.
Quote from jaybone909 :
YMMV? Showing $19.78 for me.
naw we jsut missed it. try again later/tomorrow
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04-12-2024 at 10:58 PM.
04-12-2024 at 10:58 PM.
I received the 256 GB USB 3.2 Gen 1 400MB/s instead of the 150 MB/s. Nice
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04-12-2024 at 10:59 PM.
04-12-2024 at 10:59 PM.
Quote from bassilap :
Data sheet shows higher speeds (up to 150MB/s)
https://support-en.wd.com/app/pro...web/p/8780
look again, specifically the speed claim that doesn't say anything about write (or read)
it just says "speeds up to 150MB" and then has a small number, that number is called a footnote when you see these it means the marketing department is farking with facts. If you go to the end of the page and read the corresponding number you see:

"Read speeds up to 150MB" (that's where they get the up to 150MB bit) and write speed "up to 15x faster than standard usb 2.0 drives (4MB/s)" so, they're claiming a write speed of up to 60MB/s (which coincidentally *IS* the maximum theoretical bus speed of usb 2 @ 480Mbps making one curious where the 4MB/s comes from...) This is at the absolute maximum for the drive if everything is working perfectly in a controlled environment. It may well do that, but only for about the first gig or so then the speed drops like the proverbial stone. Reading wise speeds are perfectly fine, writing speed wise this is a dog, but it's functional. This is especially true if you're going to fill it once and then read from it a bunch (say for accessing media on a roku or the like.)

Hope that helps clear things up and comes in handy when you see these sort of claims in the future Smilie

Edit: you can also see the ~60MB max write speed in the review that talks about getting the faster drive (400MB/s reading one) despite ordering the slower one (specifically the writing speed portion of this test in the review https://m.media-amazon.com/images...SY250_.jpg )
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04-13-2024 at 12:44 AM.
04-13-2024 at 12:44 AM.
Quote from ditto33 :
So this one faster write speed then the advertised on this post?
yes (in theory) I do have the one from this post, I don't have the amazon one but from the specs it should be faster under load. This one is definitely <20 sustained writing. Another cost effective option is using an SD card and a reader as the SD cards are rated for sustained writing speed (it's the V# where the # is MB/sec the card can deliver sustained a card like https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Bas...08TJZDJ4D/ for example will be able to sustain 30MB/sec which is pretty much as fast as you'll get affordably (without really good deals) at the moment. Pair it with any decent USB sd card reader (ala https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Read...07NW8RPYN/ which according to reviews writes at up to ~80MB/sec so will support V60s and V30s without any issues and will deliver MOST of the speed for the ultra expensive V90 cards. )

It's an annoying thing about thumb sticks, they don't really give you accurate information for filling it up (sustained writing)speeds but because of digital cameras (stand alone, dash, security, etc) SD cards will almost always list sustained write speeds.


Really though, it just depends on what you're going to use the device for if you're sharing media with friends it's easier to hand them a thumb drive then to trust they have a SD card reader even if the thumb drive is a third of the speed
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04-13-2024 at 08:57 AM.
04-13-2024 at 08:57 AM.
Quote from holysin :
yes (in theory) I do have the one from this post, I don't have the amazon one but from the specs it should be faster under load. This one is definitely <20 sustained writing. Another cost effective option is using an SD card and a reader as the SD cards are rated for sustained writing speed (it's the V# where the # is MB/sec the card can deliver sustained a card like https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Bas...08TJZDJ4D/ for example will be able to sustain 30MB/sec which is pretty much as fast as you'll get affordably (without really good deals) at the moment. Pair it with any decent USB sd card reader (ala https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Read...07NW8RPYN/ which according to reviews writes at up to ~80MB/sec so will support V60s and V30s without any issues and will deliver MOST of the speed for the ultra expensive V90 cards. )

It's an annoying thing about thumb sticks, they don't really give you accurate information for filling it up (sustained writing)speeds but because of digital cameras (stand alone, dash, security, etc) SD cards will almost always list sustained write speeds.


Really though, it just depends on what you're going to use the device for if you're sharing media with friends it's easier to hand them a thumb drive then to trust they have a SD card reader even if the thumb drive is a third of the speed

Thx on the info.
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04-13-2024 at 09:02 AM.
04-13-2024 at 09:02 AM.
Is there any real use case for a USB flash drive over either a USB SSD or NVME enclosure?

Reinstalling windows? Phone USB-C file transfer? Weight hanging off a television or port somewhere?
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Quote from Krazen1211 :
Is there any real use case for a USB flash drive over either a USB SSD or NVME enclosure?

Reinstalling windows? Phone USB-C file transfer? Weight hanging off a television or port somewhere?
For transferring documents to the office and home or having a backup of your important documents somewhere other than your house (I know people who have a copy of their will and a few other financial things on a thumb drive that they check yearly, attorneys also love to send thumb drives for Discovery instead of CDs or huge stacks of paper/file sharing due to confidentiality and all that.) But really thumb drives are mostly usable for sharing videos with friends where you don't really care if you get the thumb drive back. If you want (writing) speed you're going to need to go enclosure but for videos that are just going to be read repeatedly by a media player thumb drives still rule the roost with the extreme level of affordability.(Vs encloaure.) Really though, everyone is different and what some person is okay with another will not be so it depends how much performance you need and how much cost sensitivity you have.
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Dead $17.99
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04-15-2024 at 06:03 AM.
04-15-2024 at 06:03 AM.
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naw we jsut missed it. try again later/tomorrow
Thanks, got it the next day!
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fake! 100% fake. never happened.
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