I paid some extra money to finally get a good USB stick that might not have false marketing around it, like 99% of the sticks on market. From the advertised 900MB/s speed, I managed to push only 110. Before you ask - My PC slot supports USB 3.2 2x2 that normally goes way faster on data transfers.
HP 911 Pro
Not sure if I got a faulty stick or something, but at this point I’m getting real tired boss
I use nvme enclosures. Very fast and very hot. I also got some fikwot ssd based flash drive that’s about the size of a common flash drive. I’ve seen it sustain around 500MB/s very well. Some type of metal enclosure. At this point I’m probably only buying enclosures and small NVME drives or USB sticks where the enclosure is metal and reviews seem solid saying it’s hitting SATA 3+ speeds sustained well
The reality is, many USB 3.0 flash drives aren’t noticeably faster than their USB 2.0 cousins
Yes, especially write. The number of USB sticks faster than SATA (~200 MB/s) on the market is pretty limited.
And not much better in read speed.
One main point is; fast sticks have sizes in the range of USB-SSD-enclosures, for heat dissipation. Faster flash, more parallel connected layers, faster controllers, require that.
I’ll be your fanboy for the day. I blame Windows for the slow down. If I move a file to or from a flash drive on windows the transfer will slow down to kilobits. This does not happen to me on Linux.
Windows prefers to deactivate or minimize the write cache on removable devices, most of the common Linux distros generally don’t make such changes. Microsoft has a very good reason for that default: not a lot of people actually use the “safely remove hardware” option and if the cache is enabled, using and waiting for that is a hard requirement for the data to have actually made its way onto the drive.
not a lot of people actually use the “safely remove hardware” option
Capitulating to the lowest common denominator, what else is new
I’ll bite. I bought a bunch of these and I use them regularly and I’m getting frustrated with the wait times. Seeing this post makes me feel like I’ve got the worst of the worst which is motivating me to consider opening my wallet and moving on. Anyone have recommendations for a cheap, reliable usb drive I can buy in bulk (like 5 to start) in the 64-128gb ballpark that might not break records, but isn’t embarrassingly slow? I’m really partial to the double sided drives that have a USB c option as well, but those are still a little hard to find while meeting the other requirements I’ve listed.
Not flashdrive cheap, but I just use cheap 256gb sata M.2 drives and a tool less enclosure.
Runs at sata speeds and are cheap. Plus the enclosure supports NVMe so I could run around with a 8TB stick.
I had a 1 TB one I used for the longest time. My only complaint is that it never played well with any of my Linux devices (Steam Deck randomly decided it was done reading it and I had to unplug it and my Bazzite device just locks up)
