10 Pack 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Memory Stick, Vuefamy Swivel Thumb Drives Bulk for Data Storage with Lanyards and Removable Labels (8GB 10 Pack, Black)

I use these larger-capacity flash drives for saving videos, and my television wants them formatted as FAT32. My computer recognized this immediately. This came formatted as ExFAT but I was able to reformat it to FAT32 without any problems. Its a nice color and comes with a short lanyard that fits comfortably around my wrist.

Picked one at random to test. Used Etcher to burn a linux iso to it. Write speed was good and stable. Excellent for the price. The linux booted fine from it.

I really like how, solid and tough these are. They’re built to last and easy to carry around and use. And they are faster than my Sandisk Cruzers. TechTool Pro shows that these 4 GB USB Drives are by General UDisk Media. HOW I FORMATTED AND TESTED First I formatted as MS-DOS (FAT) for any computer. Then I ran the Surface Scan test on TechTool Pro. It Passed the test and said, “No Bad Blocks Encountered.” THE SPEED TESTS Then I did SPEED TESTS from my computer to one of these USB Drives… 3GB of 59 full quality CD music files - 4 minutes 20 seconds 3GB of 435 mp3 320 music files - 4 minutes 28 seconds FOR COMPARISON I USED A 32GB SANDISK CRUZER 3GB of 59 full quality CD music files - 4 minutes 31 seconds 3GB of 435 mp3 320 music files - 4 minutes 46 seconds Tested with USB Drive plugged into Fideco Dock connected to 2008 Mac Pro Tower.

The description says it can read at 60 MB/s and write at 15 MB/s, but I copied a 27 GB directory to this thumb drive, and it took 8 minutes, 10 seconds. Which by my math comes out to 55 MB/s write, which is way more than I expected. Just to be thorough, I copied the directory back to my SSD, which took 4 minutes, 45 seconds, which comes to about 95 MB/s read. So yeah, Im impressed.

This flash drive is much faster than advertised. It can do bulk writes at about 65-70 MB/s and bulk reads at about 120-130 MB/s. This is definitely sufficient for most uses cases. It doesnt even get very hot, which is a common problem. Im knocking a star off for 2 reasons: - while I was doing a stress test and copying many files concurrently it disconnected once from the USB bus, which forced me to restart the transfer. This is something that doesnt happen with my setup and quality, reliable drives. This happened only once, but I still wouldnt want to relay on this flash drive for unsupervised use or critical documents. It should be more than fine to move media around. - while peak transfer speeds are fast, sustained speeds can be lower. In some cases reading from the drive happens at 60 MB/s, that while still plenty fast is literally half the top speed I get with bulk transfer.

I see around 130MB/s download speed from this drive, so thats more that adequate for watching videos from it. Its also a great little drive for making backup copies of important documents. Great value!