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  • 1_rick - Friday, March 29, 2019 - link

    When are thumb drive makers going to stop making ridiculously-wide-bodied drives? Admittedly, I don't think I've seen anyone stacking USB-C ports the way USB-A ports are usually stacked on desktops, so it's potentially less of an issue, but it would be nice of the makers to not assume their device is the only thing I want to plug in.
  • igavus - Friday, March 29, 2019 - link

    There are smaller ones, but the problem with them is that they're often small enough that you could lose one in your pocket and never know it was there. I found several of them when I was cleaning my washing machine the last time ;/
  • name99 - Friday, March 29, 2019 - link

    Depends on your usage case. I use these tiny guys in plug-in-and-forget situations (like plugged into the car head unit, or plugged into a TV).
    Of course they are inappropriate for situations where you are liable to lose them...
    But if you want something tiny that can't be snapped off by a misplaced hand, or by furniture being moved around, then they are just wonderful.
  • flyingpants265 - Sunday, March 31, 2019 - link

    These should be about the size of a pen cap, basically at the limit of the USB-C connector, and made of steel.
  • rrinker - Friday, March 29, 2019 - link

    My mouse for my laptop uses a super tiny USB receiver (no, I am not going to trash a perfectly working mouse for a BT one just because - this one has lasted years and has a battery life of months, only the fancy one it replaced that had the left button fail after just a few months). I usually just leave the receiver plugged in because it is so tiny it is hard to get out. Sure, if there was another USB port right under this I could easily plug in a second device, but the price is a device that is just too small to deal with. USB flash drives get swapped a whole lot more than mouse receivers, and I'd rather not see them get so tiny that you lose them if dropped on the floor. This thing already looks a good bit smaller than any of the other USB sticks I have, probably small enough.
  • name99 - Friday, March 29, 2019 - link

    Yeah, unimpressed.
    Without info about the performance or cost (and if they aren't boasting about them, you know they suck), this seems decidely uninteresting compared to, say:
    https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-SDCZ430-128G-G46-12...
    which is smaller (just a tiny nub at the end of the USB socket), goes up to 256GB, and is ridiculously cheap.

    Valuable if you HAVE to have USB-C, I guess, but for anyone else...
  • LMonty - Friday, April 5, 2019 - link

    I checked the 1-star reviews and that product seems to have problems when used with large files.
    https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-128GB-Ultra-Flash-D...
  • Beaver M. - Saturday, March 30, 2019 - link

    Well, it needs cooling. USB sticks cant even reach USB 3.0 speeds because they are too small to be cooled properly.
    If you want a fast USB solution you need to take USB-SSDs, which are 2 to 3 times as big as an average USB thumb drive and can be cooled much better, yet also not enough to have them run at full performance for a long time.
  • colonelclaw - Friday, March 29, 2019 - link

    If, like me, you've wondered why Type-C has taken so long to get a foothold, take a look at this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Tmtd51clI
    I always assumed the manufacturing process would be as high-tech as the final product, clearly I was mistaken.
  • JoeyJoJo123 - Friday, March 29, 2019 - link

    Ah, a fellow man of culture. I watch Gamer's Nexus videos as well.
  • xype - Saturday, March 30, 2019 - link

    What an insightful article. I have learned more about attachable storage, USB-C, and USB-C flash drive pricing today than I have in the past 10 years.

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