I love the Sandisk Cruzer blade USB devices. They've never failed me.
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I love the Sandisk Cruzer blade USB devices. They've never failed me.
Damn - 7Day has Cruzer only in USB 2. Really, it's about time these sites updated their products.
Any reliable suppliers to recommend, please? After comments above, I'm reluctant to trust ebay/Amazon for such things.
Edit: I'm beginning to wonder if the Cruzer Blade is available only as USB 2. Sandisk's site is rubbish - over-refined and no Search box.
Thanks - I've looked at all of the usual places.
It does seem that Cruzer Blade is USB 2 only. On Amazon, there are a lot of reviews mentioning the mechanical flimsiness and high temperatures of Sandisk.
I think that I'll get some Corsair Flash Voyager - I have an old one that was bought when 1GB was big!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/USB-Flash...ds=corsair+usb
If you want quick then I would recommend SanDisk extreme
https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/SanDi...context=search
There is a new version with go appended but I don't know how quick they are.I would expect them to be good too but you can never tell with USB sticks.
The extreme ones I have have far better 4k rates than any other supposedly fast ones I have seen. The others always seem good sequentially and that is it. It's about 10 MB/s for 4k, others are under a MB/s even if they have comparable sequential.
The Go ones don't seem to be as quick but the (only 8 so far) reviews seem favourable, especially re. robustness, although they do mention that it's too long.
I looked for Amazon as 'seller' and there's this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Ext...isk+Extreme+Go
Not too bad for 64GB - more than most but a bit less than the Extreme.
When I'm free of appointments I'll get some on order. There's a chance that the collection point is abouyt 150 yd. from my favourite pub:)
If you do get a SanDisk extreme go, a crystal disk mark showing all the 4k measures would be much appreciated.
OK, will do.
I have two of the 16GB USB3 extremes. They're fine - nice and speedy. I would run tests on them but they are housing system images atm.
It's the new go versions I am curious about. From a quick Google there doesn't seen to be any benchmark.
I have x2 64 GB and a 32 GB of the old extremes and I can't recommend them enough. They really should get more exposure for how much quicker they are than anything else.
Here are some figures:
NTFS
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2.0 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 160.520 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 21.601 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 7.009 MB/s [ 1711.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.095 MB/s [ 267.3 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 132.132 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 20.761 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 5.628 MB/s [ 1374.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 1.081 MB/s [ 263.9 IOPS]
Test : 4096 MiB [F: 0.2% (0.1/58.4 GiB)] (x1) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2017/04/16 8:58:28
OS : Windows 7 Professional SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x86)
exFAT
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2.0 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 155.767 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 41.633 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 6.941 MB/s [ 1694.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.119 MB/s [ 273.2 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 149.746 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 40.266 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 6.279 MB/s [ 1533.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 1.076 MB/s [ 262.7 IOPS]
Test : 4096 MiB [F: 0.3% (0.2/58.4 GiB)] (x1) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2017/04/16 8:32:41
OS : Windows 7 Professional SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x86)
The Lexar P20 range seem pretty speedy, I've used a 32Gb one with good results.