Features:

  • Redefine everyday file transfers with speeds up to 300MB/s
  • Exceptionally compact USB flash drive for an unnoticeable, seamless fit, designed with a key ring to prevent loss
  • Reliable and secure storage for your photos, videos, music, and files
  • Safeguard your data backed by a 5-year limited warranty (Water proof, shock proof, magnet proof, temperature proof, x-ray proof)
  • USB 3.1 flash drive with backwards compatibility (USB 3.0, USB 2.0)
Unbelievable speed, super easy to use, small size...Fabulous

I have over 14 thousand photos and wanted to both have them available to work with on a smaller Chromebook that could be easily transported as well as having a back up should something happen to the main computer on which the images were stored. I had put part of them on a mini SD card which was "top of the line" for speed and is still the smallest storage device around, just a couple years ago. It took FOREVER so I ended up transferring only the parts I would be working with that week. 256 GB will hold a lot! After a lot of research and reading reviews, I thought this Samsung product would be the best for my uses. (Particularly as it was going to be used in a Chrome book which needed increased memory to function completely for my purposes. I am simply shocked at how fast this device transferred from my laptop all those photos. It is simply so easy to use. Personally I didnt find the size once plugged into my Chromebook to be overly large. It is about the same size as the doodad used for the bluetooth function on my mouse. My laptop had both 3.0 and 2.0 USB ports. For the heck of it I transferred data from both ports. Definitely the 3.0 port is noticeably faster. Sometimes when the super computer literate do reviews they provide information on speed, but I don't know if the difference is really noticeable by anyone other then to that high level reviewer. The time difference is vastly improved and you will notice the difference. I just downloaded a 9 hour video this morning and again I was so shocked at how quickly it downloaded. If you download movies for your children to watch on trips, this device is a most have as it will allow you to do so quickly. Plus the storage capacity on this is wonderful.

This is the real deal!

The first thing that I did when I got this jump drive was to run a read and write test. This drive is advertised as having read speeds up to 200 Mbps so I was excited to see that in fact this was the read speed I obtained with a 16 Mb file. The laptop I used is a Dell Inspiron 3180. I had purchased a 32 Gb TF card for it but I soon learned that TF cards operate at much slower speeds than do USB 3.0 drives. This 64 Gb USB drive is actually version 3.1 which is probably why it ran faster than my other 3.0 USB drives. Basically, this USB drive is the fastest external drive that you can use that is not a hard drive. One other nice thing I like about this USB drive is its small size. While not as small as my other Samsung USB drive (which only reads at 20 Mbps) it is only about half an inch wide and an inch deep. I can keep it attached my my laptop and it does not interfere with the sleeve (case) that I use to carry around my laptop. I plan on getting additional drives like this one. I think that 64 GB is the best size-to-performance-to- price combination I have found anywhere. I don't have a need for a 128 GB USB drive and its much higher cost would not justify buying it, either. The HD in my laptop is only 32 GB anyway, so I'll use this 64 GB USB drive to keep my HD backed up on a regular basis. In short, BUY THIS DRIVE!!! YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!

Use it in my new laptop

I got a new laptop with a 256 GB SSD. I quickly realized with all the photo editing I do that 256 GB was not enough storage space, especially since part of that 256 GB had to be used for the operating system and programs. Now I have this flash drive permanently installed in one of my USB ports, and I use it exclusively for storing all my documents. I leave the SSD free for the operating system and programs. It's working great. The only downside to using it this way is Carbonite won't back up the flash drive. No big deal, I dumped Carbonite and went with a different backup service that will back up the flash drive. Along with an external 1 TB HDD that I backup to regularly, I'm pretty confident that this is going to solve my storage space issues beautifully.

fast and tiny - exactly what i needed

I ordered the 32gb one. It's very small and fits perfectly in my little laptop. I bought it only for the purpose of having a fast way to back up all my files once a month. I don't plan on using it much other than that. My other USB thumb-drive was bulky and it seemed really slow. I'm not tech savvy so I just went by the reviews when I bought this. I will tell you though that the speed of your computer also matters a great deal...my last laptop was what I was using my old thumb drives for and they would take over 5 minutes to transfer simple files and over 1 hour to transfer a few 1,000 photos. But I did notice that with my brand new laptop my files all transferred in 15 seconds and my photos in 2 minutes. So...i guess my thumb drives were never the issue to begin with. So consider that when looking for something "fast' I can't say whether or not this thumb drive overheats because I'm not going to keep it plugged in. I find with a lot of these new computers, especially 2 in 1, everything overheats eventually . It is pretty discreet looking once it's plugged in though which is nice. It's very difficult to remove, you can't just pull it out. I think that's not only because of how small it is but also because it just fits so much tighter then my other USB thumb drives. You just need to wiggle it back and worth to get it out, not a deal breaker. This is way too much typing for a reveiw on something so tiny so that's all I'm going to say. If my opinion changes I'll update my review but for now I reccocmend this.

Low profile, fast boot up and worth the price

I bought this for the usb port in my car to hold music instead of packing around my binder of cd's. It was a little tricky to load on my computer to begin with. Had to use the port in the back of the tower. However, once that got sorted out loading it was easy and fast, even loading whole cd's. It holds alot of music, *alot of music*! It registers with my car really fast so there isn't alot of wait time. It's low profile, doesn't get in the way of anything at all, most of the time I forget it's even there. Very well worth the price. Would order it again.

Space constraints when using inline (side by side) usb hubs or jacks.

These drives are very fast but do run a bit warm. One thing to be aware of is the width of the head. Because the keychain loop is on the side instead of the front, they are slightly too wide to allow 2 or more drives to be inserted into an inline hub, such as a sabrent 4 port USB 3.0 hub with the individual port switches, without having to insert them at a slight angle. They will fit but are not in a flush straight line. If you are using a hub that stacks (not inline) ports on top of each other, this is not an issue.

VERY HIGH QUALITY AND VERY FAST

This is a great little drive. I bought it after the Sandisk Ultra Fit failed to meet my expectations. The Sandisk is extremely slow compared to this and the Sandisk gets extremely hot (almost to the point that I think its going to burst into flames). This Samsung Drive is amazing. I have it packed full with MP3 music files and I use it with the UConnect on my 2019 RAM 1500. I synced the MP3s on this with Windows Media Player and it synced about ten times faster than the Sandisk. Booting and Indexing with my UConnect is extremely fast and I have not had any failures or errors. This drive will get warm; but it is ice cold compared to the Sandisk. Just go ahead and buy the Samsung now....even if it costs a little more; you won't regret it.

Solid performer.

Unlike SanDisk's **FAIL** in this same space with their recent new one, this has a metal body and seems to be more responsive, etc. over the other. You're better served with this one over the other brands there on this. This is still tickin-kickin' after three weeks of use as my external store on my NVidia Shield TV unit- SanDisk's comparable? Plastic case (which I was dubious about) welded around the circuit board? Baked itself to death in only a week's time. Get this one, folks- same rough price, slightly faster, and a hack of a lot more robust.

nice footprint

I really like this thumb drive, large capacity in a very small footprint. You have to question why other manufacturers can't match it. It's after all not all that hard. Could it be because most others are all made in china and there's just no innovation, but all for profit. I think so. Good item, although I couldn't get it to work on my car stereo, which is what I got it for. My car head unit only accepts usb2.0, while this thumb drive says it is 2.0 compatible, it does not work on my Alpine head unit.

Amazon needs to keep this! Not any issues as Chrome Book Storage.

In my case this 64GB device is working great. Less noise on 2.4GHZ than others I tried and that means I can use my wireless mouse now (someone should have caught that before USB 3.0 was made). No heat if just left in (some will get hot just by being in the plug). No heat issues as I moved @30GB to it. To give a historical idea on temps and devices.. A good 80GB harddrive from the late 90s before SSD would like to run less than 40C 104F. Many new device CPU's on the High performance side have a thermal shutdown at 90C-100C (194F-212F or boiling point of water). So far this flash drive ran the cooler of what I tested including some SDcard to USB 3.0 options. Only one adapter won the temp test as VERY cool. SanDisk MobileMate USB 3.0 microSD Card Reader - SDDR-B531-GN6NN won the heat test hands down. But lots more noise in the wireless band for a mouse and keyboard. I still keep a finger near the Flash drive only because so many talk of heat and fear. But so far it looks like I have a brand I can use as all tests even for data loss under load all passed and very low heat and RF noise in a USB 3.0-3.1 port.

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