USB 3.0 thumb drive advise please

Alloneword · 9 May 2014 at 21:50

I need to buy a few 64 or maybe 128GB USB 3.o thumb drives but i have no idea what kind of read/write sppeds i should be look at, can anyone advice on what kind of benchmark speeds i should be looking at for middle of the road stuff?

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kona786 · 9 May 2014 at 23:12

what's your budget?

what is more important to you read or write speeds or both?

a decent USB 3 drive should do 70MB/s write and 100+MB/s reads. ~£75 128GB

Top end ones will do 150MB/s writes and 200+MB/s reads. ~ £120 128GB

Alloneword · 9 May 2014 at 23:54

kona786 said:
what's your budget?

I was hoping to keep below £100 for each 128GB

kona786 said:
what is more important to you read or write speeds or both?

Write speed is going to be the most important to me.

kona786 said:
a decent USB 3 drive should do 70MB/s write and 100+MB/s reads. ~£75 128GB

Top end ones will do 150MB/s writes and 200+MB/s reads. ~ £120 128GB

Maybe i can find a decent one on special somewhere, so guess it's time to start hunting a bargain out, ok many thanks for your help kona786.

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kona786 · 10 May 2014 at 00:01

NP.

SanDisk 128 GB Extreme Pro USB3 is the fastest drive I've seen, with 200+MB/s Write and read.

I have a 128GB Integral Xcel 128GB USB 3.0 which does ~80W/130R

darael · 10 May 2014 at 00:04

Why do you need 128GB?

Sandisk Extreme drives are fast, but the largest size is 64GB for about £50. Read speeds are ~190MB/sec, write speed specs I can't find.

Looking at Sandisk's site, they now do an Extreme PRO flash drive, the only capacity being 128GB. That's about £120. This buys you read speeds of ~260MB/sec and write speeds of ~240MB/sec.

jh30uk · 10 May 2014 at 01:49

I do not see need to know why he needs 128GB.

Sandisk Extreme 64GB : 268MB/s Read / 205MB/s Write on Intel Z87.

The newer Extreme PRO has been out a good while, I posted a thread on it.

Hotwired · 10 May 2014 at 02:03

Fast write speeds and large capacity?

Sounds like you've found something nice. On someone elses computer

jh30uk · 10 May 2014 at 02:08

4k Pr0n!!!!

Dom86 · 11 May 2014 at 10:38

There is a Mushkin flash drive that is really quick for the money it costs.

kona786 · 11 May 2014 at 14:53

Dom86 said:
There is a Mushkin flash drive that is really quick for the money it costs.

the one that quotes 400+MB/s write and read speeds but deliver nothing like the performance?

jh30uk · 11 May 2014 at 20:00

I think there is a few of these drives that use caching trickery like the Samsung Evo SSD's, real life speed is nowhere near as fast.

Read it a while back on http://www.thessdreview.com/

Edit : From above sites review :

e36Adz · 13 May 2014 at 21:26

I'm also after a new USB 3.0 pen drive, which would you guys recommend out of the following:

Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 128GB USB 3.0
(£91)
(EDIT - Found this for £80 delivered)

Corsair Flash Voyager GS USB 3.0 128GB
(£85)

128GB Corsair Flash Voyager LS USB 3.0 Flash Drive
(£63)

Lexar 128GB JumpDrive S73 USB 3.0 Flash Drive
(£52)

The prices I've listed are what I can pick them up for locally. I'm after one which performs well, is reliable and doesn't come in cheap plastic casing.

Edit - Or is there another you would go for over the above which doesn't cost much more?

abbotsmike · 13 May 2014 at 23:50

jh30uk said:
I do not see need to know why he needs 128GB.

Because if you want several hundred gigabytes of high speed portable storage, a USB3 HDD makes more sense! If however, you need pen drives for say several people, that option is no use!

jh30uk · 14 May 2014 at 00:19

Bit late to the party?

If he asked for that (128GB) he gets replies on that IMO.

That pen drive will blow away and Mech HDD for transfers anyhow.

abbotsmike · 14 May 2014 at 00:22

jh30uk said:
Bit late to the party?

If he asked for that (128GB) he gets replies on that IMO.

That pen drive will blow away and Mech HDD for transfers anyhow.

Yeah, I should be doing other things right now! Didn't spot that the original replies were two days old either!

kona786 · 14 May 2014 at 11:28

e36Adz said:
Edit - Or is there another you would go for over the above which doesn't cost much more?

The one I've had for the past 9 months is good and reliable:

128GB Integral Xcel 128GB USB 3.0 which does ~80W/130R ~£85

Nice metal case too.

e36Adz · 14 May 2014 at 21:28

Cheers kona, I've been looking at some reviews online today and decided to go for the Kingston which seems to perform very well and is reasonably priced for a 'quick' 128GB drive.

Kingston 128GB DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 USB
£79.99 free delivery
3% cashback

225 MB/s read
125 MB/s write
5 year warranty

kona786 · 15 May 2014 at 11:35

The HyperX does seem great for the money.

Lets us know if it's as fast as the quoted speeds.