Transcend 32GB JetFlash 790 USB 3.1 Flash Drive (TS32GJF790K),Black

This brand is my favorite USB Flash Drive the last 2 years. No Cap, Usb 3.1, Indicator Light, and finally very fast to eject by Windows. Others are much slower. When light goes out you can safely remove. If you want a bootable USB Flash Drive do not buy larger than 32gb or none will work.

Its a great USB, tons of memory for a great price. Very easy to carry around, protective when it slides in (it will not slide out and get damaged). No issues with all the computers I use finding the device, no issues saving or downloading files. However, the push button to slide the USB back into storage is a bit sensitive. Sometimes when I go to plug it into my computer, it slides back into its storage. I usually have to hold it on its sides (a bit awkward) to plug it into my computer. But thats something I can live with considering I need to save big files for research.

I ended up buying two of these--the black 32 gig USB 3.0 version first. I had initially ordered another Transcend USB drive along with it but the write speed was half what this one is so I returned it and ordered this one again in white. So far so good with read/write speeds. They are as advertised which when I compared them to other drives in this price range is pretty good. 32 gigs for under 12 bucks was unheard of just a year ago. I like the fact that the USB connector draws back inside the plastic housing so its protected. When you need to connect it, its locked into place so you dont have to hold the button down to make the connection. The light is a nice touch. Yes, you can live without it, but having an indicator to let you know if the drive is busy can save you from pulling out the drive at the wrong time thus corrupting the data. Transcend memory cards have been very good to me in the past. Its all Ill use in my high end digital camera. Heres hoping these USB drives also continue to impress me with their performance and longevity.

The item exceeds my expectations!

This is the second one for me. Hangs on my key chain and always available. Push out lock stops working after a while...I guess it wears out.

This drive saved me.. We had a complete system crash but we had set up a back up set with Norton and used this drive. It put everything back where it belonged.....

Long term durability and robustness remains to be seen, but it worked when I got it. Ive only transferred files over USB 2.0, havent tried the USB 3.0 speeds yet. Ive put around 60GB of photos and 1080p video footage, and if I recall, the transfer rate was around 10-15MB/s (80-100Mbps) - well under the maximum 480Mbps USB 2.0 spec, but it wasnt time critical, more for backup purposes so it wasnt a big deal. Being a solid state device, Im hoping for better long term robustness from this over an external HD. So far, so good even though its only been a couple weeks. On another note, I dont really care for the USB slider form factor, as it has a tendency to push back into the casing while youre trying to connect it to the USB port. Minor criticism and not enough to stop me from pouncing on it as one of the Daily Deals, but something I thought was worth noting.

Pretty fast, but a good example of why benchmarking software isnt much of a guide. Heres what Crystal Disk Mark has to say (and the photo shows a transfer of two video files on Windows 10, with an SSD source and this drive plugged into a fast USB 3.0 port that lives up to the 3.0 standard): Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 102.911 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 97.646 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 6.301 MB/s [ 1538.3 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 0.262 MB/s [ 64.0 IOPS] Sequential Read (T= 1) : 105.711 MB/s Sequential Write (T= 1) : 87.028 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 5.113 MB/s [ 1248.3 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.231 MB/s [ 56.4 IOPS] Please see the photo of an actual transfer- it slows to about 23MB/sec after 150MB are transferred.

I back up and move a lot of material on flash drives and on external hard drives. I was disappointed to find that some drives simply died on me even though I was storing them in a cool, dark drawer. Suddenly they would read something like no disc and that was it. A few years ago you could run chkdsk and fix the problem but now this doesnt work because chkdsk reads no disc as well so you cant fix a single corrupted file that might be the only thing wrong. Fortunately I had off site storage so it didnt totally matter but it was still a hassle. Ive been using these about a year or so now after they were recommended by a friend. So far none of them has had the slightest problem. They also load and disengage very quickly. Im not deep enough into these things to give you any technical information but Im sure others have.

Im giving this the 5 stars it hugely deserves for price and capacity. Im expecting longevity as well, since so far everything Ive purchased from Transcend has been problem-free. If it doesnt last, Ill come back and grumpily remove some stars. Im not using this for incessant daily transfers, but more as an exceedingly handy all-purpose storage bin. And it definitely requires 3.0 after it starts to fill up, or youll be waiting longer than you are used to these days. I didnt love it laboring away on a 2.0 connection. But 3.0 is fine for my purposes. And I appreciate that it works without fuss with everything from an antique netbook to several laptops of various vintages and powers. When I do want to share something among my widely varied collection of this and that, it is a pleasure to have this wonderful capacity. Dont fool around with the all-important aspects of learning smooth connection and disconnection practices with this. Take care, dont yank and pull but go slow. Youll save yourself a lot of trouble by noticing precisely how this device wants to be connected and disconnected. (In the last 20 years, every USB device I ever bought was a little different than every other one--- and they all still work well. Im certain it pays to be faintly obsessive about this part.) I keep all my uncapped USB drives in zipped cases to keep the dust out. Capped, uncapped, somewhat capped: it matters. Some years ago I accidentally sent a Transcend 64 GB flash drive through a washing machine cycle. Because it was securely capped it still works as well as before. So Im just more careful where I take the slide-in varieties like this one. The real question is: how much in the way of educational material, cultural enjoyment, tech-tools and sheer fun would you like to carry around?