Recommend a USB Drive?

mogli1990(OcUK) · 10 Jan 2012 at 09:05

I've had many USB sticks, mainly from OCZ. But the last one I bought was an ATV 8gb which was rubbish, died after 2 weeks light use. I got it RMA'ed for another, which also died within like 2 days. Then I got it RMA'ed again, this time they upgraded me to a 16GB Rally2 (had a blue LED unlike my brother's which has an orange LED), and that worked literally 1 day as well. It's strange cause my brother has an Orange LED Rally2 which I use very often and it works perfectly...

Anyway, I think I'm done with those expensive £8 shipping costs back to OCZ. My PSUs kept dying with them too and so did my ONYX 32GB, so I know I won't be buying from them any time soon!

Can anyone recommend me a decent reliable USB drive with reliable fast read/write speeds? It has to be one available on overclockers.co.uk because I want to order it from here.

(The Rally2 has great read/write speeds but very unreliable... after formatting it usually turns into some slow drive with like 8mb/sec writes)

Thanks guys, I appreciate the help

Broken Hope · 10 Jan 2012 at 22:31

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FL-076-KS

Is the best USB drive I've used, it's auto future proof since it supports USB3 for even more speed, it's out of stock atm though.

Razargh · 10 Jan 2012 at 23:26

I have a USB 3.0 Transcend Drive, runs fast and good storage for its price.

.Jay. · 10 Jan 2012 at 23:40

I have the same as Broken Hope, good drive - first USB3 drive I've had so I couldnt give you a good comparison tbh

Broken Hope · 11 Jan 2012 at 00:37

Here's a bench of my drive to show the performance.

USB 2

USB 3

PhillyDee · 11 Jan 2012 at 00:40

Oooh, I fancy one of those! Since I will have usb3 on both my desktop and laptop once I get my laptop through!
Unless someone can recommend an equally speedy drive?

Alexrose1uk · 11 Jan 2012 at 01:32

Don't know if thier USB 3.0 drives are as good but Ive got an 8GB Patriot USB2 drive here that both performs well, especially reads, for USB2 so perhaps try the 16GB USB3 Pulse drive or one of the other Patriots. Its got a 2 year warranty rather than 1 so I guess they are reasonably confident.

Kingston is usually a good option though.

Edit - looks like the pulse is Patriot's value USB3 line.
According to a review elsewhere It'll only do about 10-11MB/s write, around 70MB/s read though.

Substantially cheaper than the Kingston though, horses for courses...