Reviews - ADATA S102 Pro USB 3.0 Flash Drive (32GB)

[HEXUS]

Quick, compact and affordable. Isn't this how all USB Flash Drives should be?

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[Erenhardt]

Nice! It is faster than my HDD...

[Irien]

I'd be curious to know if these drives offer any improvement over old USB2 units on USB2 machines. I always felt that the USB2 spec could support faster transfers than many grotty USB pen drives offered, and wonder if the improved internals allowing for such improved performance over USB3 might also yield benefits over slower connections (ie. maxing the connection)?

Also interested in random IO performance, not just copying. After all, we must be getting to a point where it is sensible (capacity/performance) to run apps or even boot OSs from USB drives, so that we end up with our own portable environments... Presumably some of the advances in SSD tech will dribble down into pen drives, boosting performance on portable devices?

[Brewster0101]

This is not a fast USB 3 flash drive. Its might not be expensive but doesn't take advantage of the USB 3 speeds. Look at the SanDisk SDCZ80 Extreme range, thats fast - and good value.

[bridges009]

I'd be curious to know if these drives offer any improvement over old USB2 units on USB2 machines.

I don't have this particular pen drive but I did buy an unbranded 64Gb USB3 one from eBuyer a while ago. I've used it to install Windows 7 on a USB2 only machine and it's noticeably quicker than my 32Gb OCZ USB2 stick which was quite expensive at the time I bought it.

[keithwalton]

I picked up a 16g version of this drive for under a tenner with free postage a couple of weeks back.
I only run it on usb2 so peak speed is limited by that. But as with most media lots of small files chokes speeds down to zilch.
I did laugh at the way the packaging tried to make out it had a no loss end cap. When they meant it's got a place to store it!
Unlike other solutions where the cap remains attached trust me you can still loose this cap for a while!

[Savas]

This is no longer £18, but £27.85. Not even a whole day passed.

[Rob_B]

This is no longer £18, but £27.85. Not even a whole day passed.

£17.81 as of now direct from amazon.

[Savas]

Ah that makes sense. Amazon was out of stock, so it basically chose the next seller which was at the £27.85

Fair enough.

[Neostar]

I really don't understand why they make these with caps that you can easily loose