I've been struggling to find a good thumb drive that is fast enough to boot my Ubuntu or other Linux partitions with their ext4 file systems, plus to have plenty of room left over for additional Fat32 and NTFS partitions for storing files for my Windows machines.
This is it!
The file write speed for a movie .iso file of about 4.5Gigabytes writes at about 100 to 107 Megabytes/sec. I felt that I should spell megabytes, abbreviated as MB, to avoid confusion that many advertisements take advantage of by using the term Mb which stands for megabits. (8 bits/byte for a stored file, but for any kind of data transmission, like over a modem, internet, between computers, and between computers and storage devices, like thumb drives, it takes one start bit, 8 data bits and ends with one stop bit. So that's 10 bits per byte that needs to be sent and received. So a 100 Mb hub, only passes data at a 10 Megabyte/sec rate. A Gigabit router can only send and receive at 100 Megabytes/sec. Trust me. I've been fooled/dazzled/ and felt cheated by some misleading but technically true product advertising.
I'm very pleased with my 256 Gigabyte Samsung thumb drive. Oops. No thumb drive, hard drive, nor solid state drive actually stores your data with a maximum capacity of their advertised Gigabytes do they? No they don't. That's another misleading "sales gimmick" that manufactures play on us. That's because it takes up a lot of drive space to store its file system formatting information. Check this out: My 14 Terabyte hard drive can only store up to 12 Terabytes of data. What a rip off! Oh well. Yeah Yeah, this is not the forum for me to complain. Who's going to read this anyway? Just kidding.
Also, when I was transferring my movies and files to this thumb drive it only got warm to the touch. The last metallic thumb drive from another manufacturer that I returned to Amazon got too hot to touch and I worried about its possible shortened life. The warmer semiconductors get, the faster they degrade and become useless.
The only negative comment I have about this thumb drive is that it has an open end. Since I carry it on my key chain, I cover the end with a tight-fitting cover that I took off of an HDMI cable. Believe me, lint will get in there and will interfere with the connection and you will think that your thumb drive has broken down. Again, that's my experience with USB-type stuff in my pockets, like my cell phone!!
Good luck!
| Read Speed | 400 Megabytes Per Second |
|---|---|
| Connectivity Technology | USB |
| Color | Silver |
| Flash Memory Type | CompactFlash |
| RAM | 256 GB |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 1 |
