expiredphoinix | Staff posted Dec 17, 2025 06:23 PM
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expiredphoinix | Staff posted Dec 17, 2025 06:23 PM
$9.10: 128GB Amazon Basics Ultra Fast USB 3.1 Flash Drive at Amazon
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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.
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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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