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Model: Amazon Basics 128GB Ultra Fast USB 3.1 Flash Drive, Black
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sustained write speeds look to be about what i'd expect at this price, spend a few more dollars for something that can write at (sustained) at least like 30 megabytes per second.
sadly not always easy to find this out. the specs are always misleading and even well-intentioned reviewers posting benchmark screenshots usually only run the 1gb test, which doesn't tell you much.
one well-intentioned reviewer (5 stars) even posted a screenshot of results for a 128mb test. this thing can write at 180 megabytes per second! (for maybe 1 second)
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sustained write speeds look to be about what i'd expect at this price, spend a few more dollars for something that can write at (sustained) at least like 30 megabytes per second.sadly not always easy to find this out. the specs are always misleading and even well-intentioned reviewers posting benchmark screenshots usually only run the 1gb test, which doesn't tell you much.one well-intentioned reviewer (5 stars) even posted a screenshot of results for a 128mb test. this thing can write at 180 megabytes per second! (for maybe 1 second)
Samsung Bar Plus and Samsung Fit Plus are pretty popular and perform well for their price.
As price and performance increase, the line between what constitutes a "flash drive" and what constitutes a "portable SSD" gets blurry. I don't think there is any hard rule for where one category stops and the other begins.
EG looking at 256gb capacity, the "normal" price on the Samsung Bar Plus and Fit Plus is like $29 and $30. Those are marketed as flash drives.
But for a few more dollars you start to see products that occupy the gray area. Like for $33 at B&H ($50 min for free shipping), you could get the Kingston 256GB DataTraveler Max. It's still marketed as a flash drive but IMO they could call it a portable SSD if they wanted.
note worst case write speeds (seen after a large write is performed, and sufficient time is allowed for all of the drives' cache to fill), is still 80 megabytes per second.
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A fake Amazon-branded product being sold by Amazon?
Or are you asking if the reported stats about the product are fake?
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meanwhile bezos will own multiple mansions and yachts.
sadly not always easy to find this out. the specs are always misleading and even well-intentioned reviewers posting benchmark screenshots usually only run the 1gb test, which doesn't tell you much.
one well-intentioned reviewer (5 stars) even posted a screenshot of results for a 128mb test. this thing can write at 180 megabytes per second! (for maybe 1 second)
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As price and performance increase, the line between what constitutes a "flash drive" and what constitutes a "portable SSD" gets blurry. I don't think there is any hard rule for where one category stops and the other begins.
EG looking at 256gb capacity, the "normal" price on the Samsung Bar Plus and Fit Plus is like $29 and $30. Those are marketed as flash drives.
But for a few more dollars you start to see products that occupy the gray area. Like for $33 at B&H ($50 min for free shipping), you could get the Kingston 256GB DataTraveler Max. It's still marketed as a flash drive but IMO they could call it a portable SSD if they wanted.
https://www.bhphotovide
review (presumably of a larger capacity variant)...
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2...eview.html
note worst case write speeds (seen after a large write is performed, and sufficient time is allowed for all of the drives' cache to fill), is still 80 megabytes per second.
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