Features:

  • High-speed USB 3.0 performance of up to 150MB/s
  • Transfer a full-length movie in less than 30 seconds
  • Transfer to drive up to 15 times faster than standard USB 2.0 drives
  • Sleek, durable metal casing
  • Easy-to-use password protection for your private files
  • 5-year limited warranty
Small flash drive with good speed

Overall this is a great flash drive, it gets around 140MBs read and 40MBs write (Slightly slower than the 64GB version). It's not quite as fast as the SanDisk extreme version but it's the fastest metal drive I've found, you can see a benchmark in the attached image. The metal design seems sturdy and should hopefully hold up to being thrown around with my keys. My only complaint would be that the drive is part metal (silver portion) and the key ring part is plastic (black/grey portion in picture). I was hoping it would be all metal but the plastic key ring seems sturdy and it should hold up over time. One other note is that the drive can get very warm when doing large transfers, it's to be expected for a small metal drive like this but it's worth mentioning.

Low Price. Great Quality.

Great little flash drive. SanDisk has never let me down when it comes to memory cards and flash drives. I love the modern design and the compact size. For the price, you cannot get any better. The speed is fast. My video and image files quickly transfer. The Flash Drive does get a little warm when using. I just make sure not to leave it plugged in when not in use. Not a big deal. It easily attaches to a keyring and has been quite durable getting banged around constantly. I highly recommend this flash drive. Low price and great quality.

Excellent Write Speed

I ordered a couple of these because of their size and speed plus the reputation that SanDisk has come to be known for. I was not disappointed with my purchase. The flash drive is very compact and can easily be carried on key chain or lanyard. The speed of the 3.0 is good also, my times for transfer or copying of files has been reduced by a good 70%-80%. I will say this however, I have noticed that when I am transfer/copying larger files of say 15gigs or better that the body of the flash drive does become quite warm to the touch. This surprised me the first time I used it cause my other flash drives don't get this way, then again my other flash drive are also a plastic body... this one is either aluminum or stainless steel. The only thing I would have liked to have been included or made part of this unit is to have a cap for the working end, don't really like having it left exposed. I just make sure that before installing into usb that I check that nothing by some chance has fallen into open slot on flash drive. Well with that little annoyance being said I would still recommend this unit for the ease of carry and speed of file transfer.

USB3.0 without as much heat

I have been burned by the premature failure of another product that was much smaller form factor. The other product would become too hot to handle but had very little excess metal in the housing. Basically it just filled the USB port with a plastic bulge on top for grip while manipulating it. This unit is larger and probably has at least twice as much metal housing. I used it to make recovery drives which involves writing more than 8gb to the USB. It still took a while but I never felt uncomfortable touching the metal housing. I used the recovery drive on a fresh disk drive the following day with no trouble. I expect it will last longer than the other product I tried. It seems like increasing the surface area for heat transfer may have made a big difference. I will update this review if I put it to the test of longevity.

Fast, reliable, and large USB drive. Great for files or for making bootable USB's

This thumb drive has performed as expected for a thumb drive. I used the windows media tools to create a bootable windows 10 USB drive and it worked great with this thumb drive. I found the USB 3.0 to be super useful for installing windows on machines. Dimensions of the thumb drive can be seen in the photos I have uploaded below. It is quite a small thumb drive. Included is simply a 32GB USB 3.0 thumb drive. On the drive is some Sandisk software for encryption etc. I junked this software so I do not know if it would prove to be useful or not. Pros: *High capacity *High speed data transfer *Small easy to carry Cons: *None Additional Considerations: Be aware of the size of this drive and that it is a USB 3.0 device. To utilize the full speed during data transfer make sure to plug this drive into a blue USB 3.0 spot. Overall: 5/5 stars (>=.5 rounds up, <.5 rounds down) => 5 stars If you have any further questions regarding the product in my review please leave a comment below and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Fast and stable drive @128Gb

Overall very happy with the capacity and performance of this tiny thumb drive especially at this price. Bought a Si Power 128 GB sometime last year and this one's performance is just way better. The SiPower drive (also USB3) was not very responsive, always need to wait for a couple of seconds before it responded, even when what I did was opening a folder on the thumb drive. But for SanDisk Ultra Flair, I don't see this issue at all! Was thinking that it might be due to the 128GB but loos like it's just some thumb drive is just not that responsive. Have included a picture for relative size comparison among SiPower, Sandisk Extreme and Ultra Flair. As mentioned by some ppl it's warm after use but I don't think take that as an issue with this drive as everything is packed into such a tiny thing.

Faster than the old.

I picked up this USB disk so I can offset the price for the shipping here on amazon. I also needed this drive for installing Linux operating systems. It's my OS recovery disk, as I sometimes like doing things that will break my computer. It's nice having a faster installation USB pen drive. These disks are much faster than the old version 2.0 and version 1.0 disks. They are faster even if you put them in a version 1.1 USB port. The only problem I have with these disks, is the weak construction. It's easy to break them. When they are sitting in a USB port a side swipe can bend it. I haven't had one break from this, but they have gotten bent.

Fast and large enough to run VHDX's for demo purposes on your laptop.

I run Hyper-V on my Windows 10 laptop that has an SSD with 16GB RAM and Core i7 processor. I keep my WIndows 2012R2 VHDX's on the SanDisk USB 3.0 Flas Drive for SSD performance on my Hyper-V servers! It gets a little warm, within spec they say, but to keep it cool I stuck some heatsinks for a Rasp-Pi on it. Since the case is metal, heat transfer is excellent and I no longer worry about the temp of my external, thumb-sized SSD!

(2 years later and it's still going strong!) I bought this 128GB drive because I needed more storage ...

UPDATE TWO YEARS LATER (8/2018): I have been using this flash drive on a daily basis, attached to my keys, and it's still working great. Goes in and out of my pocket with a handful of keys. 100% satisfied with it and impressed with its durability. I bought this 128GB drive because I needed more storage. I had a Silicon Power 64GB Jewel J80 USB 3.0 Flash Drive, Titanium (SP064GBUF3J80V1T) which has held up well but it maxes out at 64GB. The Silicon Power is all metal. I was a little wary of this one's plastic loop to attach it to my keyring but it's actually thick and seems strong. I was not exactly clear on how it fit on a keyring but it does! It's also actually smaller than the Silicon Power one! How do they do it??? As for speed, it is plenty fast enough on my USB 3.0 equipped laptop and I don't notice it taking any more time than my last drive did on the USB 2.0 equipped classroom computers. How's that for a completely subjective analysis? The whole reason I needed a larger drive was to carry class movies to class. It handles the large files just as well as the Silicon Power did. I've been using it for a week on a keyring with several big keys. If it fails on me, I'll be back on here to knock stars off. If you're reading it with 5 stars, it means it's still holding strong! (photos show its size and I still have the Silicon Power one on my key ring for comparison; it's next to the SanDisk)

Fast, robust USB 3.0 drives

I bought two of these to speed up an aging PC, by using them for ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost is a windows feature which caches commonly used drive contents on flash drives to boost load times. I d really hoping to speed up my windows bit time, as well as have loads. I didn't have an SSD, and my motherboard didn't support them. Since flash drives were getting cheap, I was looking for two of the largest drives windows 7 supported, that we're also fast, and durable. I saw some complaints that these particular drives got very hot under heavy use, but I didn't see complaints that they failed. I suspect the metal exterior works as a heat sink. I plugged them into the two USB 3.0 ports at the back of the motherboard, and had them operating side by side for at least 6 months without issue. If they got hot, it never caused any symptoms. After a few days, I did see notable decreases in my load times for With 7, Fallout 4, and some other things. However, it turns out ReadyBoost is better in concept than in implementation. There are so many background processes that continually scan the drive, that I discovered my computer was constantly shifting data to the USB drives, because it couldn't settle on what was "most often used". That made my performance worse at times, because my harddrive was constantly churning to drop new data to the USB drives. What that also meant was that these drives were being far more heavily utilized than I'd anticipated, yet the drives continued to work flawlessly. While I eventually gave up on ReadyBoost, there was never an issue while caching with these drives, so data read and write at full USB 3.0 speeds over long periods never glitched. Now I've got a couple small, stylish USB 3.0 thumbdrives to use with my new PC build, to replace all my older and bulkier USB 2 thumbdrives.

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