I've been using a Sandisk Extrem 32gb for a while now, and it's a perfectly usable USB drive that performs perfectly well (anything over 100MB/sec is fine for most portable storage needs IMHO), is nicely made, a good size so it doesn't bulk up your pocket, and I thought it was a good price when I bought it for about £35 ($50 or thereabouts?).
The fact that the 64gb one is now $28 (probably £28 here...) these days pleases me - there's really nowt wrong with them if you're shuffling around file collections large enough to justify a fast USB drive, but not so much as to justify a portable HDD/SSD.
Best USB drive I've owned in over ten years, I'd say. And a bargain for the price.
Have to agree. I can't recall what I paid, must have been about the same price as you, i'm too cheap to go higher for a usb stick, but i have to say i am overwhelmingly impressed. Although granted, any drive i've used before this was over usb 2.0. Connected to my surface, it's absurdly fast, I have absolutely no complaints with it and would highly recommend to others.
Okay, so turns out it's a $110 drive. I don't know if there's some kind of Black Friday sale or they're on clearance, but you shouldn't act like this price somehow reflects the state of flash technology today. Do these kinds of sales usually last more than a few days? Or can I expect that product to disappear before something else near $100 comes out?
Right, so if you need a fast flash drive today, why would you wait until the sale ends instead of buying now? If you don't need a flash drive today, then something faster and larger capacity will come out in the next 1-2 years for a similar price. That's how flash technology generally works.
Where is the mention of a PNY 128GB Turbo 3.0 USB Flash Drive P-FD128TBOP-GE in the testing? I just bought TWO for $87 CDN all in and owned a couple of these in the last year and they are VERY rock solid and incredibly cheap and FAST!!
You are a fool to buy high-end USB 3.0 when 3.1 is gonna revolutionize the interface in less than a few months.
Review samples have been largely limited to what vendors have sent for years. The only exceptions being things the editors bought for personal use and then reviewed. The banner ads don't generate enough money for an extra $50-100k/year of hardware purchases on top of running the servers and paying everyone.
Don't be such a tool. AT (and most other review sites) have always relied almost entirely on manufacturers sending review samples. AT does not make enough money to purchase tens of thousands of dollars a year purchasing the items. These sites aren't run by independently wealthy millionaires.
No one can deny that Anand leaving sucks, but you can hardly blame the man for taking a job that almost certainly pays much better than running this site ever did. Or do you regularly receive job offers for really great gigs and turn them down?
As always, if you have any complaints about the site or the articles, please be sure to bring it to our attention. You guys are our bread and butter, so if you see us slipping or otherwise think we could be doing something better, we'd like to know.
Ryan, you're a F'ing stud. You, the entire crew. Anand may have 'found' or been the genesis, but those of you there now, that have been for quite some time, and seem to have the fortitude and gumption to continue. I wish you NOTHING but the very best of luck It takes only a tool like that (tool=such a perfect word, my apologies for the plagiarism;) to Gomer up a conversation. What said tool 'doesn't get' is A) you do indeed get phones, tabs, motherboards and C/GPUs, NAS & DAS... & you sign an NDA for said piece typically receiving a version 'ahead' of the gen pop. When the release happens, your NDA is clear, articles, reviews and opinions are posted. B) your site is well respected by most technology companies in the world. I'm unable to name a better site with objective testing, data, and subjective usage details so well written and from such and extremely wide variety of gear. Other than Windows phones, but I'm not sure anyone gives a pair of poops about them anyway
Keep up the incredible work. Anand is a name. You and your crew are and have been his backbone for years. Anand, while congrats are in order, wasn't the reason the detailed plethora of reviews here exist. It's Brian and another at least ½ dozen guys and gals with so much more intelligence and experience with these units than literally ANYONE reading ...much less commenting
Human nature is ultimately going to 'end' with a subjective take or opinion Brian's was spot on. As are his Android, Apple, motherboard and power supply reviews. Their fair and obviously 'repeatable' on your own and evidenced traditionally by sales figures
Don't like it, Go Away. This isn't the place for that horseshit, especially when you've not submitted anything to the conversation ...nor did you probably take the time to read it, and if you did, I understand the meaning of tool. You. Didn't. Get. It.
I'll explain, if it's 'TL': This 'thumb' drive is incredibly fast compared to your SanDisk or PNY 4GB stick from 2011 you picked up. By ten, maybe twenty fold. Now...WTF does that have to do with the namesake and his career?
I got a 128GB PNY drive and ran into weird driver issues. Takes about 20 seconds to appear when I plug it in (after a lot of continuous HDD access). Then the transfer rate is s-l-o-w with like a 2 second delay per file. Attempting to switch on write caching in Windows broke the registry in such a way it no longer recognised the USB disk at all and I had to manually delete a load of entries. Weird and obviously disappointing.
USB3.1 is 10 Gbps compared to half that with by-gone era USB3.0 lest I mention the incredible power output 3.1 will have which will literally be able to recharge a laptop. Its worth the wait considering the long term benefits.
No it's not. There's NOTHING on the market that can saturate USB 3's thoroughput @ five Gb/s. Thunderbolt 2 is 20 Gb/s and I've owned a TBolt 1 since 2012 with your '10 Gb/s' with power output not yet established (& variable with current USB amperage). That's ridiculous. Wait for an output theoretical and still in the drawing board... ...when there's nothing it will do 'better' than today's current offerings? That's silly. Need a computer, buy a computer. By the time thudo's computer is available, cool, pop the drive --- buy said USB 3.1 housing and controller, put drive in, plug it in and BAM! Same. Speed. Oh well. Cool thing, by then we'll be paying today's HDD prices for tomorrow's SSD storage and NAND, M.2 or PCIe SSDs. My current MBP is hitting speeds near a Gb/s writing and exceeding at about 1,070-1,100 read times. That's. Flying! And it's a TB, weighs less than 5 pounds with the charger and lasts nearly all day with the power of my 2009 Mac Pro (actually quicker!). Check out the new mobile reviews and speeds of their internal NAND modules. They're exceeding 200Mb/s these days and it's a HUGE part of the 'user experience' when downloading, installing, updating or utilizing an app for video/photo/artistic manipulation & it's speed to swap out those mini files quickly. I'm not sure there's a consumer modem, ISP or ANY hardware that could or would benefit from anything faster than USB 3 or thunderbolt. Not that advancement is bad. But waiting is foolish.
Sorry, I made a mistake in my post above The PNY that drops frames on a camcorder that only records at 1.5MB/sec is actually listed at 30MB/sec write speed
All my old Sandisk cards listed at 15MB/sec write speed work fine with this camcorder and DO NOT drop frames
Hmmm.. owned 2x these PNY 3.0 USB drives and they start at 60+mb/sec write and never ever had a single issue with them in terms of reliability and speed in any system. I even have 2 more coming as mentioned (128Gb USB3 ones for $87 all in FOR TWO!!).
The Sandisk Extreme 64GB is PERFECTLY FINE for use as a Windows to Go Drive
Even with Bitlocker Software Encryption Enabled, the Sandisk Extreme is more usable when playing Counterstrike on Steam than a Patriot Supersonic Boost 32GB running Linux Mint WITHOUT ENCRYPTION
Actual Write Speeds tested on Sandisk with Bitlocker Enabled
A single 5,693,912 KB Drive Backup copied to Encrypted Sandisk @ 7.23MB/sec (787 seconds)
152 MP3's @ 607 MB copied to Sandisk @ 7.49 MB/sec (81 seconds) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Read Speeds from Encrypted Sandisk A single file 5,693,912 KB copied to Samsung 840 Pro @ 154 MB/sec 152 MP3's / 607 MB copied to Samsung 840 Pro @ 107 MB/sec
The real problem is that you will have no idea whether you are getting the Fixed Disk version or the Removable Disk version of the Sandisk Extreme when you order from Amazon
Both versions come in EXACTLY the same packaging but only the Fixed Disk works with Windows to Go Sandisk switched back to "removable disk" without providing any usable way to identify which is which but they will offer to swap disks with you if you received the wrong one and you complain enough
It would be interestinsting to know how these flash drives (I have the Sandisk extreme and the Corsair GTX 256) compare to the Diskgo Sonic (e.g. 240GB version http://us.edgememory.com/index.php/usb-flash-drive... ), which claims speeds that seem the best in the market, but looks like the throttled Ventura Ultra and Visiontek... Or to the slower but Windows to go certified Ironkey W700 (very expensive).
Buying a rebranded Mushkin drives should give you the same results or worse than a Mushkin Check the warranty for a clue to them buying parts that diddnt meet the specs from mushkin or just read the mushkin reviews at newegg like this one>
Claiming "Read: up to 445MB/s Write: up to 440MB/s" on a device that starts at around 120 MB/s (acceptable) but then will drop to 20MB/s when it warms up is unacceptable.
Telling me that it was designed to do that is insulting.
It will be snowing in hell before I buy a Mushkin product again.
An utterly disappointing experience. Stay away from this thing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sandisk 64GB turned out to be the best buy/GB/quality/consistency of them all in my opinion
Newegg has changed the content of complaints that were on the site just a few months ago for damage control
Customers were complaining that their Mushkin drives were incredibly slow, registering 120MB/sec and lower when they received this response> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manufacturer Response:
Hello, Unhappy!
Is this USB being plugged into an USB 3.0 port? From our experience, these USB Drives will not function at listed speeds in an USB 2.0 port.
If you continue to have issues, please contact us at Support@Mushkin.com so we can address your concerns.
Thank you, and be well! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any Manufacturer that questions if you are using USB 2.0 to get the slow speeds of 120 MB/sec is not to be trusted with my money as USB 2.0 tops out around 45MB/sec
So you are basically saying that Mushkin, Visiontek and Edge are basically the same product, like sold as different brands or very similar products made buy one manufacturer and sold by different companies. It could well be possible, especially as Anandtech has found that Mushkin and Visontek are comparable in terms of throttling. I was however not going to buy. I am already more than happy with my Sandisk Extreme and Corsair Voyager GTX 256 (the fastest flash drive on the market...)
I'm not sure where you found the Sandisk 64 GB extreme for $28, as even the page link of the article come in at $68. The cheapest price I can see after a brief look on the internet is around $48. Maybe this was a black friday sale? A little pricey for me as a stocking stuffer.
Anyway, I once used a SanDisk flash drive from which i lost all data out of the blue. However, I was lucky to recover back each and every file with the help of a recovery software that i found in this tutorial video - http://youtu.be/FYFyWUWn5Cg
I bought the Sandisk Extreme Pro 128 a couple months back for around $100. No complaints about the cost for the storage size, and I like the metal casing and retractability. Performance is top-notch, and my disk speed testing agrees with the manufacturer's top speed estimates. Love how fast it copies huge files, which was my main reason for the purchase. I primarily work on OSX10.10 platforms, with W7, W8, and CentOS Linux virtual machines. So I would want to see Anandtech demonstrate the effects of different operating systems, i.e. W7, W8, OSX10.9, OSX10.10, Linux, and their respective best disk formats, on the performance metrics. Until that is broken out, I'm not sure how much value to derive from what was presented here.
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Beany2013 - Thursday, November 27, 2014 - link
I've been using a Sandisk Extrem 32gb for a while now, and it's a perfectly usable USB drive that performs perfectly well (anything over 100MB/sec is fine for most portable storage needs IMHO), is nicely made, a good size so it doesn't bulk up your pocket, and I thought it was a good price when I bought it for about £35 ($50 or thereabouts?).The fact that the 64gb one is now $28 (probably £28 here...) these days pleases me - there's really nowt wrong with them if you're shuffling around file collections large enough to justify a fast USB drive, but not so much as to justify a portable HDD/SSD.
Best USB drive I've owned in over ten years, I'd say. And a bargain for the price.
basroil - Thursday, November 27, 2014 - link
The regular Extreme (not pro) really is a steal, especially for software development, where you might have tens of thousands of tiny files.hughlle - Friday, November 28, 2014 - link
Have to agree. I can't recall what I paid, must have been about the same price as you, i'm too cheap to go higher for a usb stick, but i have to say i am overwhelmingly impressed. Although granted, any drive i've used before this was over usb 2.0. Connected to my surface, it's absurdly fast, I have absolutely no complaints with it and would highly recommend to others.mkozakewich - Friday, November 28, 2014 - link
Okay, so turns out it's a $110 drive. I don't know if there's some kind of Black Friday sale or they're on clearance, but you shouldn't act like this price somehow reflects the state of flash technology today. Do these kinds of sales usually last more than a few days? Or can I expect that product to disappear before something else near $100 comes out?RussianSensation - Friday, November 28, 2014 - link
Right, so if you need a fast flash drive today, why would you wait until the sale ends instead of buying now? If you don't need a flash drive today, then something faster and larger capacity will come out in the next 1-2 years for a similar price. That's how flash technology generally works.thudo - Friday, November 28, 2014 - link
Where is the mention of a PNY 128GB Turbo 3.0 USB Flash Drive P-FD128TBOP-GE in the testing? I just bought TWO for $87 CDN all in and owned a couple of these in the last year and they are VERY rock solid and incredibly cheap and FAST!!You are a fool to buy high-end USB 3.0 when 3.1 is gonna revolutionize the interface in less than a few months.
DanNeely - Friday, November 28, 2014 - link
When very few current generation USB flash drives can max out a USB3 link; I don't expect any major near term gain from 3.1.As for the PNY drive; convince PNY to send anandtech one for testing.
Lezmaka - Friday, November 28, 2014 - link
So Anandtech seriously only reviews something if the manufacturer sends it to them?deontologist - Friday, November 28, 2014 - link
What do you expect? AT lost all journalistic integrity after Anand bailed with his golden parachute.DanNeely - Saturday, November 29, 2014 - link
Review samples have been largely limited to what vendors have sent for years. The only exceptions being things the editors bought for personal use and then reviewed. The banner ads don't generate enough money for an extra $50-100k/year of hardware purchases on top of running the servers and paying everyone.kyuu - Saturday, November 29, 2014 - link
Don't be such a tool. AT (and most other review sites) have always relied almost entirely on manufacturers sending review samples. AT does not make enough money to purchase tens of thousands of dollars a year purchasing the items. These sites aren't run by independently wealthy millionaires.No one can deny that Anand leaving sucks, but you can hardly blame the man for taking a job that almost certainly pays much better than running this site ever did. Or do you regularly receive job offers for really great gigs and turn them down?
Ryan Smith - Saturday, November 29, 2014 - link
As always, if you have any complaints about the site or the articles, please be sure to bring it to our attention. You guys are our bread and butter, so if you see us slipping or otherwise think we could be doing something better, we'd like to know.I can be reached via email or Twitter.
-The New Boss
akdj - Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - link
Ryan, you're a F'ing stud. You, the entire crew. Anand may have 'found' or been the genesis, but those of you there now, that have been for quite some time, and seem to have the fortitude and gumption to continue. I wish you NOTHING but the very best of luckIt takes only a tool like that (tool=such a perfect word, my apologies for the plagiarism;) to Gomer up a conversation. What said tool 'doesn't get' is
A) you do indeed get phones, tabs, motherboards and C/GPUs, NAS & DAS... & you sign an NDA for said piece typically receiving a version 'ahead' of the gen pop.
When the release happens, your NDA is clear, articles, reviews and opinions are posted.
B) your site is well respected by most technology companies in the world. I'm unable to name a better site with objective testing, data, and subjective usage details so well written and from such and extremely wide variety of gear. Other than Windows phones, but I'm not sure anyone gives a pair of poops about them anyway
Keep up the incredible work. Anand is a name. You and your crew are and have been his backbone for years. Anand, while congrats are in order, wasn't the reason the detailed plethora of reviews here exist. It's Brian and another at least ½ dozen guys and gals with so much more intelligence and experience with these units than literally ANYONE reading ...much less commenting
Human nature is ultimately going to 'end' with a subjective take or opinion
Brian's was spot on. As are his Android, Apple, motherboard and power supply reviews. Their fair and obviously 'repeatable' on your own and evidenced traditionally by sales figures
Don't like it, Go Away. This isn't the place for that horseshit, especially when you've not submitted anything to the conversation ...nor did you probably take the time to read it, and if you did, I understand the meaning of tool. You. Didn't. Get. It.
I'll explain, if it's 'TL': This 'thumb' drive is incredibly fast compared to your SanDisk or PNY 4GB stick from 2011 you picked up. By ten, maybe twenty fold. Now...WTF does that have to do with the namesake and his career?
stephenbrooks - Friday, November 28, 2014 - link
I got a 128GB PNY drive and ran into weird driver issues. Takes about 20 seconds to appear when I plug it in (after a lot of continuous HDD access). Then the transfer rate is s-l-o-w with like a 2 second delay per file. Attempting to switch on write caching in Windows broke the registry in such a way it no longer recognised the USB disk at all and I had to manually delete a load of entries. Weird and obviously disappointing.stephenbrooks - Friday, November 28, 2014 - link
This was, however, not the USB3 version:PNY Attache III 128GB Flash Drive - USB 2.0 - P-FD128ATT03-GES3
thudo - Monday, December 1, 2014 - link
USB3.1 is 10 Gbps compared to half that with by-gone era USB3.0 lest I mention the incredible power output 3.1 will have which will literally be able to recharge a laptop. Its worth the wait considering the long term benefits.akdj - Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - link
No it's not. There's NOTHING on the market that can saturate USB 3's thoroughput @ five Gb/s. Thunderbolt 2 is 20 Gb/s and I've owned a TBolt 1 since 2012 with your '10 Gb/s' with power output not yet established (& variable with current USB amperage).That's ridiculous. Wait for an output theoretical and still in the drawing board...
...when there's nothing it will do 'better' than today's current offerings?
That's silly. Need a computer, buy a computer. By the time thudo's computer is available, cool, pop the drive --- buy said USB 3.1 housing and controller, put drive in, plug it in and BAM! Same. Speed.
Oh well. Cool thing, by then we'll be paying today's HDD prices for tomorrow's SSD storage and NAND, M.2 or PCIe SSDs. My current MBP is hitting speeds near a Gb/s writing and exceeding at about 1,070-1,100 read times. That's. Flying! And it's a TB, weighs less than 5 pounds with the charger and lasts nearly all day with the power of my 2009 Mac Pro (actually quicker!).
Check out the new mobile reviews and speeds of their internal NAND modules. They're exceeding 200Mb/s these days and it's a HUGE part of the 'user experience' when downloading, installing, updating or utilizing an app for video/photo/artistic manipulation & it's speed to swap out those mini files quickly.
I'm not sure there's a consumer modem, ISP or ANY hardware that could or would benefit from anything faster than USB 3 or thunderbolt. Not that advancement is bad. But waiting is foolish.
Bullwinkle J Moose - Saturday, November 29, 2014 - link
PNY Blows ChunksI learned my lesson
So should you
My 128GB Attache reads and writes at 1/2 the listed speed
My PNY SD Cards give me frame drops in a camcorder that only requires 1.5MB/sec write speed yet the card is listed for 10 times that speed
Bullwinkle J Moose - Saturday, November 29, 2014 - link
Sorry, I made a mistake in my post aboveThe PNY that drops frames on a camcorder that only records at 1.5MB/sec is actually listed at 30MB/sec write speed
All my old Sandisk cards listed at 15MB/sec write speed work fine with this camcorder and DO NOT drop frames
Sorry for the error
thudo - Monday, December 1, 2014 - link
Hmmm.. owned 2x these PNY 3.0 USB drives and they start at 60+mb/sec write and never ever had a single issue with them in terms of reliability and speed in any system. I even have 2 more coming as mentioned (128Gb USB3 ones for $87 all in FOR TWO!!).Bullwinkle J Moose - Saturday, November 29, 2014 - link
The Sandisk Extreme 64GB is PERFECTLY FINE for use as a Windows to Go DriveEven with Bitlocker Software Encryption Enabled, the Sandisk Extreme is more usable when playing Counterstrike on Steam than a Patriot Supersonic Boost 32GB running Linux Mint WITHOUT ENCRYPTION
Actual Write Speeds tested on Sandisk with Bitlocker Enabled
A single 5,693,912 KB Drive Backup copied to Encrypted Sandisk @ 7.23MB/sec (787 seconds)
152 MP3's @ 607 MB copied to Sandisk @ 7.49 MB/sec (81 seconds)
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Actual Read Speeds from Encrypted Sandisk
A single file 5,693,912 KB copied to Samsung 840 Pro @ 154 MB/sec
152 MP3's / 607 MB copied to Samsung 840 Pro @ 107 MB/sec
The real problem is that you will have no idea whether you are getting the Fixed Disk version or the Removable Disk version of the Sandisk Extreme when you order from Amazon
Both versions come in EXACTLY the same packaging but only the Fixed Disk works with Windows to Go
Sandisk switched back to "removable disk" without providing any usable way to identify which is which but they will offer to swap disks with you if you received the wrong one and you complain enough
digiguy - Sunday, November 30, 2014 - link
It would be interestinsting to know how these flash drives (I have the Sandisk extreme and the Corsair GTX 256) compare to the Diskgo Sonic (e.g. 240GB version http://us.edgememory.com/index.php/usb-flash-drive... ), which claims speeds that seem the best in the market, but looks like the throttled Ventura Ultra and Visiontek... Or to the slower but Windows to go certified Ironkey W700 (very expensive).Bullwinkle J Moose - Sunday, November 30, 2014 - link
Buying a rebranded Mushkin drives should give you the same results or worse than a MushkinCheck the warranty for a clue to them buying parts that diddnt meet the specs from mushkin or just read the mushkin reviews at newegg like this one>
Claiming "Read: up to 445MB/s Write: up to 440MB/s" on a device that starts at around 120 MB/s (acceptable) but then will drop to 20MB/s when it warms up is unacceptable.
Telling me that it was designed to do that is insulting.
It will be snowing in hell before I buy a Mushkin product again.
An utterly disappointing experience. Stay away from this thing.
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Sandisk 64GB turned out to be the best buy/GB/quality/consistency of them all in my opinion
Bullwinkle J Moose - Sunday, November 30, 2014 - link
forget edge memoryjust "TRY" to find the warranty info from the warranty link at Tiger Direct
If you enjoy hurting yourself, The mushkin branded version at newegg is $45 cheaper anyway
Bullwinkle J Moose - Sunday, November 30, 2014 - link
Forget Mushkin as wellNewegg has changed the content of complaints that were on the site just a few months ago for damage control
Customers were complaining that their Mushkin drives were incredibly slow, registering 120MB/sec and lower when they received this response>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Manufacturer Response:
Hello, Unhappy!
Is this USB being plugged into an USB 3.0 port? From our experience, these USB Drives will not function at listed speeds in an USB 2.0 port.
If you continue to have issues, please contact us at Support@Mushkin.com so we can address your concerns.
Thank you, and be well!
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Any Manufacturer that questions if you are using USB 2.0 to get the slow speeds of 120 MB/sec is not to be trusted with my money as USB 2.0 tops out around 45MB/sec
digiguy - Sunday, November 30, 2014 - link
So you are basically saying that Mushkin, Visiontek and Edge are basically the same product, like sold as different brands or very similar products made buy one manufacturer and sold by different companies. It could well be possible, especially as Anandtech has found that Mushkin and Visontek are comparable in terms of throttling. I was however not going to buy. I am already more than happy with my Sandisk Extreme and Corsair Voyager GTX 256 (the fastest flash drive on the market...)Chromatin1 - Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - link
I'm not sure where you found the Sandisk 64 GB extreme for $28, as even the page link of the article come in at $68. The cheapest price I can see after a brief look on the internet is around $48. Maybe this was a black friday sale? A little pricey for me as a stocking stuffer.RyuDeshi - Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - link
Yes, a couple stores had it for $28 for a few days before black Friday. Not sure why they are talking about it like that is the normal everyday price.McMillan24 - Friday, December 5, 2014 - link
Anyway, I once used a SanDisk flash drive from which i lost all data out of the blue. However, I was lucky to recover back each and every file with the help of a recovery software that i found in this tutorial video - http://youtu.be/FYFyWUWn5CgGadgetsRGrt4All - Saturday, December 6, 2014 - link
I bought the Sandisk Extreme Pro 128 a couple months back for around $100. No complaints about the cost for the storage size, and I like the metal casing and retractability. Performance is top-notch, and my disk speed testing agrees with the manufacturer's top speed estimates. Love how fast it copies huge files, which was my main reason for the purchase. I primarily work on OSX10.10 platforms, with W7, W8, and CentOS Linux virtual machines. So I would want to see Anandtech demonstrate the effects of different operating systems, i.e. W7, W8, OSX10.9, OSX10.10, Linux, and their respective best disk formats, on the performance metrics. Until that is broken out, I'm not sure how much value to derive from what was presented here.thousandbuckle - Thursday, October 19, 2017 - link
What program did you use to capture the temperature of the flash drive.