Review on Transcend 64GB JetFlash 790 USB 3.0 🔍 Flash Drive: Efficient Data Storage and Fast Transfer Speeds by Mateusz Komorowski ᠌

Name: Transcend 64GB JetFlash 790 USB 3.0 🔍 Flash Drive: Efficient Data Storage and Fast Transfer Speeds
Item: Transcend 64GB JetFlash 790 USB 3.0 🔍 Flash Drive: Efficient Data Storage and Fast Transfer Speeds
Rating: 3

May 25, 2023

Not the best quality, but generally not bad.

1) The flash drive will repeatedly pause recording or erasing data at 2- to 10-second intervals. This causes a surge in velocity. Budget SSDs with TRIM off accomplish this quickly and in any circumstance once both the Over Provisioning and SLC cache sections are full. Also, the "128" version costs the same as the "120" SSD version.

When using a flash drive with FAT32 already loaded, the "32Gb" version has average read/write rates of:
A 37 MB/s USB 2.0 Read Speed
It takes 14Mbps to write at USB 2.0 speeds.
Small file USB 2.0 recording speed is 13 per second.
Deleting tiny files at USB 2.0 speeds: 35/sec

USB 3.0 Read Speed: 130 MB/s
The USB 3.0 write speed is 18 Mbps.
With USB 3.0, you may record 21 tiny files per second.
When using USB 3.0, you can delete 50 files per second.

It is possible to read over a thousand files per second when dealing with small files. Large files can be deleted quickly.

4) Total:

Drives and drives of the flash variety. Approximately four to five times the speed of older models of flash drives. The physical form isn't for everybody. The "128GB" variant is priced like a low-end SSD but has significantly lower performance.

In my opinion, the "128" version is inferior than an SSD of the same price and capacity.

While it is speedier than the inexpensive flash drives of yesteryear, my expectations were not met. My family members needed a flash drive, so I donated it to them; I can't speak to its usefulness for their purposes, but I imagine it will be an improvement over the broken one I replaced it with. Unfortunately, it did not live up to my hopes that it would be bootable on Ubuntu Linux. It took roughly 5 minutes to boot from this flash drive, compared to less than 15 seconds from an SSD and about 1 minute from an HDD, because Ubuntu performs a lot of write operations even when reading.

A flash drive is sufficient for ten-year-old chores (such as transferring a DVD from a neighbor to yourself). No operating system, certainly not the latest version of Linux with a graphical user interface, and no jobs requiring frequent, small-block recording.

Pros

It was well received upon its release to consumers a few years ago. Previous-generation flash drives are 4-7 times faster (for the "32GB" version) if you ignore the freezing of this flash drive in its modern implementation. Even with the freezes, the average speed is better than the absolute cheapest flash drives from the previous generation.

Cons

0 Terrible sound quality. Certainly not as slow as a completely random flash drive, but not ideal if you're looking for quickness. This 32GB flash drive cost me 540 rubles, but a 16GB drive I bought a little later for 290 rubles has nearly twice the recording quality. First, the current implementation is not nearly as cool as the one they created and filmed approximately three years ago. Initially, there was likely only one controller and memory chip available, but later on, this probably changed. (see comment). There is a minor decrease in capacity from what is advertised. Although 32GB is advertised, the actual storage space available is only 28.48GB (30,562,729,984 bytes). minor, but. Third, the case may be too big, cutting off access to nearby ports. Sticking it wasn't exactly a breeze for me.