Comments on: The Best Flash Drives in 2023

By: Way

Way — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:44:47 +0000

Blaze B30 supports USB 3.2 Gen 1 yet as con it is listed that it doesn’t support USB 3.0. I think your info is wrong.

By: michael_clyde

michael_clyde — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 18:56:46 +0000

In reply to Jamil.

“11 Best … ” takes on new meaning.
The SanDisk Extreme Pro is over twice as fast as the Extreme Go.
Extreme Go 64 & 128Gb – $17.99, $31.99
Sequential Read Performance
Up to 200 MB/s
Sequential Write Performance
Up to 150 MB/s

Extreme Pro 128 & 256GB – $44.95, $72.99 WD/SD
Sequential Read Performance
Up to 420MB/s
Sequential Write Performance
Up to 380MB/s

IIRC, the Flash Voyager GTX has “Up too” speeds of
440 and 440MB/s – 128, 256, 512GB and 1TB.
While everybody’s speeds are theoretical maxes, I wonder if Corsair’s driver makes them faster. I’ve got (2) Extreme Pro’s but no GTX’S. I guess tomorrow would be the day to get one.

By: dave9

dave9 — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 19:09:24 +0000

In reply to J.. Peak read not bad, but random write bad, just like most of them besides the Corsair GTX and Sandisk Extreme being the only two with good "average" use performance, which is why they cost near or over double what the others do, in order to put an SSD controller in them.

By: Jamil

Jamil — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 18:23:50 +0000

The SanDisk PRO gives you blistering speeds, offering 420 MB/s on the reading front and 380 MB/s on the writing end, which is 3–4x faster than what a standard USB 3.0 drive will offer.

By: sb

sb — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:45:57 +0000

This article feels like regurgitated facts from other articles and spec sheets. We need someone to do some real tests and make consistent comparisons. Write speed is the critical factor with large drives, and we need some real life testing. That means not only a couple of huge files, but also copying thousands of small files such as backing up a hard drive. And to report not only the speed, but the storage used. There is anecdotal evidence that flash drives can use up to twice the storage when storing lots of small files.

Heat should be consistently reported. It was noted as a con with a Samsung drive and one other but not mentioned for the others. That is not entirely credible. In fact, the Samsung drive has an all metal case ideal for dissipating heat, so it may feel hot on the outside while actually cooling the inside more effectively, just a thought — but anyway really accurate measurements of temperature/heat are needed for each device if it is going to be considered.

Reliability is very important and also very difficult to gather data on. But somebody should be stress-testing these top contenders over time to get some idea on failure rates. It seems like it wouldn’t cost that much to really test these drives and give us some trustworthy data that truly reveals the differences and similarities and tradeoffs.

By: Techs Motion Staff

Techs Motion Staff — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 13:34:54 +0000

In reply to J.. True. Fixed =) Thank you

By: J.

J. — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:26:18 +0000

Hi,

PATRIOT SUPERSONIC RAGE 2 is listed almost as fast as the PNY TURBO and someone puts its speed under CONS???? 😀

Cheers!