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256GB Samsung USB Type-C Flash Drive (Blue)

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Woot! has 256GB Samsung USB Type-C Flash Drive (Blue, ‎MUF-256DA/AM) on sale for $29.99 - $5 w/ promo code SAMSUNGFIVE at checkout = $24.99. Shipping is free for Amazon Prime Members (must login with your Amazon account and select a shipping address in order for Woot to apply free shipping) or is otherwise $6 per order.

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About this product:
  • Up to 400MB/s read / 110 MB/s write speed
  • Compatible with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 systems
  • Water-proof, shock-proof and temperature-proof
  • Keyhole & cap
  • Limited 5 year warranty

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  • About this Deal:
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    • Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars at Amazon based on over 16,590 customer reviews.
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Woot! has 256GB Samsung USB Type-C Flash Drive (Blue, ‎MUF-256DA/AM) on sale for $29.99 - $5 w/ promo code SAMSUNGFIVE at checkout = $24.99. Shipping is free for Amazon Prime Members (must login with your Amazon account and select a shipping address in order for Woot to apply free shipping) or is otherwise $6 per order.

Thanks to Community Member pennysave for sharing this deal.

About this product:
  • Up to 400MB/s read / 110 MB/s write speed
  • Compatible with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 systems
  • Water-proof, shock-proof and temperature-proof
  • Keyhole & cap
  • Limited 5 year warranty

Editor's Notes

Written by citan359 | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • Limited time deal, while supplies last.
  • About this Product:
    • Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars at Amazon based on over 16,590 customer reviews.
  • About this Store:
  • Additional Notes:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Samsung Type-C USB Flash Drive, 256GB

Use code SAMSUNGFIVE at checkout for an extra $5 off!

https://computers.woot.com/offers...=w_gw_dd_3
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On sale for $29.99 - $5 off with promo code: SAMSUNGFIVE

https://computers.woot.com/offers...ive-256gb?
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BenB3890Today 06:32 AM
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The read/write on these is painfully slow. The micro size is awesome, but once you get anything >50GB on them, they crawl. Unusable
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hhgf35cToday 07:01 AM
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Samsung USB drives get very hot and will die prematurely if you leave in the USB C socket too long.
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This used to be normal price on both Amazon and Samsung...
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LickMySackToday 07:42 AM
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank LickMySack

I use these at work for imaging computers not in our MDM. They're great for that. I haven't used them for sustained writing but we leave them in machines for days and they don't seem to be hot.
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OrangeJuliusToday 08:08 AM
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For what they are, these are good drives. Not Samsung's best, and certainly inferior to a good NVMe SSD in a good USB-C adapter, but for a self-contained drive, you can do worse for $25. And yes, long sustained writes will eventually dog these down.
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PlutomaniaToday 09:45 AM
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Have two of these that became slow to read when half the drive was full as in 1MB/s. Reformatted them and suddenly they were fast again. I can understand writes bogging down, but reads slowing down is concerning. I would not use these to store important data.
Most USB sticks are flat out garbage. There are a few "SSD" sticks that are a bit more expensive like the Transcend ESD330, which are speedy if you don't write a ton at a time. Even "SSD" sticks have a certain amount of pSLC allocated before they run out and have to write slowly. Read performance remains speedy though.
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Quote from Plutomania :
Have two of these that became slow to read when half the drive was full as in 1MB/s. Reformatted them and suddenly they were fast again. I can understand writes bogging down, but reads slowing down is concerning. I would not use these to store important data.
Most USB sticks are flat out garbage. There are a few "SSD" sticks that are a bit more expensive like the Transcend ESD330, which are speedy if you don't write a ton at a time. Even "SSD" sticks have a certain amount of pSLC allocated before they run out and have to write slowly. Read performance remains speedy though.
I think my Samsung BAR 256gb is currently like that. Guess i need to reformat.
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MWinkToday 12:49 PM
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Quote from Plutomania :
Have two of these that became slow to read when half the drive was full as in 1MB/s. Reformatted them and suddenly they were fast again. I can understand writes bogging down, but reads slowing down is concerning. I would not use these to store important data.
Most USB sticks are flat out garbage. There are a few "SSD" sticks that are a bit more expensive like the Transcend ESD330, which are speedy if you don't write a ton at a time. Even "SSD" sticks have a certain amount of pSLC allocated before they run out and have to write slowly. Read performance remains speedy though.
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I think my Samsung BAR 256gb is currently like that. Guess i need to reformat.
All the Samsung USB flash drives I've tested in the last few years suffer from rapid degradation. The read performance drops precipitously as the data ages. Newly written data will read fast. Once the data degrades to an extreme level (like 1MB/s), the controller will refresh the data it struggled to read. If you find a particular piece of data reading very slowly, you may find the next time you try to read it (assuming a great deal of time hasn't elapsed) it reads much more quickly.

This issue isn't unique to Samsung drives, though it does seem pretty consistent and severe with them. It's why I won't recommend them. On the plus side, I have yet to detect any actual corruption on these drives. I can't say the same about Team Group's flash drives. Theirs are perfectly happy to return corrupt data.
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lewiswbToday 02:07 PM
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still available since it is one per account
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nolf66Today 02:11 PM
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I have a few BAR Plus 256GB I got for $20 that are now the same price as this $52.

For $25 why not as the cost has more than doubled.
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Quote from BenB3890 :
The read/write on these is painfully slow. The micro size is awesome, but once you get anything >50GB on them, they crawl. Unusable
Not sure what is wrong with your testing, but these are by no means slow. On a half-full 512GB version, I can copy media files from it to my internal SSD at almost 400MB/s. Not "painfully slow" whatsoever.

These are so tiny that they are perfect for mobile device use. My use case was filling them with movies and using the rich interface app, Infuse, on my iPad Pro to view the media when traveling.
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I have a bunch of these, purchased more than two years ago (except my 512GB version). AMAZED at how the price has increased! I paid $19.99 for the 256GB version and now on Amazon they are $52!!!!!! The 512GB version I paid $50 and now it's $90 on Amazon. CRAZY!

$25 on Woot! is a great deal by today's standards.

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