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Frys has the Patriot Xporter 128GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive (PSF128GXPXUSB) for $70 with free pickup only. Features USB 2.0 and is plug and play.
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128GB is a lot of room for certain stuff you wanna keep secret. Can't they make these any smaller??
Crazy, I have a 128MB Sony Flash Drive at home. Crazy how quickly memory grows.
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I have the 64GB version, the write speeds around 5 MB/s. It's pretty damn slow.
USB 2.0? Fail!
#4 USB 2.0 is capable of 480Mb/s... a USB 3.0 flash card is a marketing gimmick, nothing more.
don't buy Patriot USB flash drive. I had a 32gb version, and it keeps failing. I have reformatted it constantly. I ended up throwing it in garbage. It's also very slow on write.
^ Sorry to read that qtpie but I haven't had the same experience with some of their smaller ones. My Patriot Xporter XT 8GB, Stocking (Christmas Edition) 16GB, and recently acquired Swing 16GB all seem to be working fine, and the Xporter XT is fairly fast for a USB2 model though the Stocking and Swing are both a little slow.
In what way is it failing? If it recovers by reformatting it seems like a corruption issue which could be anything from dirty USB contacts to a poor USB cable, overloaded USB hub, even removing from the USB port before the write cache is flushed or while still writing.
480 Mbits/s ( = 60MBytes/s) is only the theoretical peak bandwidth available (on paper), there are various overheads including the controller, filesystem, etc. which result in the typical peak sequential large file transfer rate for USB2 flash drives being between 33-40MB/s depending on both the host and client (drive itself) USB controllers used, and significantly lower for random I/O and small files.
USB3 significantly increases transfer speeds in real world uses even if the attained speed is still below the 480Mb / 60MB per second USB2 specification, assuming the product is designed well, performs up to its real world potential which not all do but apples:apples comparison would mean USB3 is faster with flash drives.
Sales tax and spending the time to drive to then then wait in line at Frys = I'm out for 1.