Review on Sandisk Ultra Flair 128 GB Silver USB Flash Drive: Reliable and High-Speed Storage by Yusri ᠌

Name: Sandisk Ultra Flair 128 GB Silver USB Flash Drive: Reliable and High-Speed Storage
Item: Sandisk Ultra Flair 128 GB Silver USB Flash Drive: Reliable and High-Speed Storage
Rating: 5

March 29, 2023

One of the best deals, glad I bought this.

I required a flash drive to deal with papers, so the fast speed of writing little files, even though it was in small volumes, was more attractive to me than the ability to easily drive anywhere between 5 and 30 GB at a time. It is sad that by the time I was stumped by this question, the first version of SanDisk Extreme 32 GB at a reasonable price had already been discontinued and is no longer available.
Flash drive with a capacity of 32 gigabytes and a fat32 factory formatting.
The maximum speed reached more than 90 MB/s when writing a 2.4 GB archive on a computer equipped with USB 3.1 and running Windows 10. Windows 7 and USB 3.0 both make the problem even worse (CrystalDiskMark test results are attached).
Actual data: 1.7 gigabytes (4973.2 files ranging in size from 8 kilobytes to 23 megabytes), three distinct machines (the third being a laptop, the first two running Windows 7), and hard drives are a commonplace commodity everywhere. The recording lasts five minutes when using USB 2.0; it lasts four minutes when using USB 3.0; and it lasts three minutes when using USB 3.1. 16 minutes is all that can be recorded on my outdated flash drive that uses the 2.0 standard. When the working day is over, it feels like an age has passed! Three minutes, four minutes (the laptop's hard drive failed otherwise), and one minute is the time it takes to copy data from a flash drive to a personal computer. In that amount of time, it is duplicated from an older flash drive. I am satisfied.

Pros

A fantastic flash drive for dealing with files of up to one or two gigabytes in size. You will be need to hunt for alternatives that have a comparable write speed for little files, and it is quite likely that these alternatives will be substantially more expensive (higher capacity). If the first gigabyte was recorded at 90 and the second gigabyte was recorded at 20, then the average speed for non-small files is 55 MB/s; there are also few alternatives for comparable prices, and they will undoubtedly be greater in size. You only need to register it on SanDisk's website to take advantage of the excellent warranty that the company provides (I had previous experience with another flash drive).

Cons

This flash drive is still quite good as long as you don't need to write more than two gigabytes at a time onto it (which should be the case in most situations). It becomes good, then normal, and after that "you can find better" (for 4 GB, the speed will be (90 20 20 20) / 4 = 37.5 MB / s, etc.). This is because as the volume of information recorded during a single session increases, the quality of the recording improves. My experience is that the speed varies depending on the operating system and the USB version used (3.0 or 3.1). The read speed of my copy does not reach 135 MB/s even when using USB 3.1 and Windows 10, despite the fact that 150 is indicated on the packaging.