A fast USB/eSATA pen drive.

philjayj · 15 Sep 2009 at 23:41

Hi, can someone please recommend a fast (in terms of read/write speeds) USB or eSATA pen drive?

Many thanks

Phil

xyphox · 15 Sep 2009 at 23:52

I would go for an OCZ Rally, I've always had these and they claim and seem to be very quick.

AbsenceJam · 16 Sep 2009 at 01:35

The eSATA one will be quicker but by how much depends on the flash chips used.

Greenlizard0 · 17 Sep 2009 at 18:17

Friendly bump. I need one in the 8+ preferably 16GB range. It doesn't have to reach its limits, but has to be reasonably quick due to the size, it'll be used only has a temporary storage drive.

I'm think the Rally too. Are there any others out there? I've been looking at PNY and can't see that they top very mediocre speeds

raptormonkey · 17 Sep 2009 at 21:51

I don't trust pendrives after having a few fail when after saving and then seeing later that nothing was on the drive!

Also, why is it that everytime i plug in my external hard drive i get a message asking if i wanted to scan to fix?

Greenlizard0 · 18 Sep 2009 at 11:34

Have you tried reformatting it (long)?

raptormonkey · 18 Sep 2009 at 13:20

Greenlizard0 said:
Have you tried reformatting it (long)?

Not a long format.