Review on Silicon Power 2-Pack 128GB USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 Thumb Drive Blaze B02 - High-Performance USB Flash Drive by Xavier Xavier (Xavie ᠌

Name: Silicon Power 2-Pack 128GB USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 Thumb Drive Blaze B02 - High-Performance USB Flash Drive
Item: Silicon Power 2-Pack 128GB USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 Thumb Drive Blaze B02 - High-Performance USB Flash Drive
Rating: 3

November 15, 2022

Thought it would be better, but overall not bad.

With information about the write speed, it’s generally tense: the manufacturer has no information, only 10% of flash drives are indicated on the  market. And this is at a time when not only "spaceships plow .", but there are already computers! )))

You can take a flash drive if you do not need high speed to record large volumes (such as urgently record a couple of 50GB movies and the taxi is already waiting, there is no extra hour). And so, if you add on the sly from time to time, slowly creating a motley archive of all sorts of things, it’s quite suitable, especially since the flash drive “gives up information with pleasure” at 100 Mb / s. )))
A high upload (reading) speed is suitable, for example, for watching 4K movies, even with a very high bitrate. You will record this film for a long time, but there will be no brakes when watching.

I took just this device for big movies, in order to urgently record and go to hang out, and + sometimes record TV shows. For these purposes, the flash drive is not suitable.

Pros

The reading speed is really about 100 Mb / s (megabytes per second and then everything is in MB / s. To whom in bits, multiply by 8). Not hot after active use, it is quite comfortable to hold with your hand, warm))). The view is beautiful, classic, metal-like. Relatively narrow (18 mm), you can insert where there is another usb nearby.

Cons

I read reviews here about 40 Mb / s for recording, bought it and it turned out to be partly true. When you start writing large files of several gigabytes (movies), the speed is immediately 40Mb / s, then after a couple of minutes 30Mb / s after 3 minutes the flash drive "chokes" and goes to a "cruising" speed of 25 Mb / s (ntfs and exFAT are the same) and with this constant speed is already adding everything else. This speed result for files 10,20,40,80 and 100 GB. With small files (photos, music), things are even worse on exFAT 20Mb / s, ntfs 17Mb / s, i. E. a flash drive will be written for about 2 hours and these promised 40 Mb / s can only be achieved when writing one file at a time of about 1 GB, that is, writing one file per minute. Then the flash drive "gets tired" and writes almost 2 times slower. The next file again starts briskly at 40 Mb/s and "gets tired" after a minute. It is not suitable for recording digital TV, the TV set "says" a "slow device", there is a mandatory streaming recording speed of 30 mb / s. (I tried other flash drives where the established speed is from 30 mb / s, recording from the TV set is normal). There are also 128 GB flash drives for comparison and they have a cruising (established) speed of 40 and 50 mb / s, and an external usb hard drive has 80 mb / s (in case you think that I have a connector or a slow computer). About formatting: ExFAT is a little faster, but still this format is not as versatile as ntfs. exFAT cannot be viewed on Windows XP, on many TVs, media players. And such a volume of a flash drive provides for cases sometimes to watch a movie from a friend on a TV set with beer or at the dacha on an old computer (with XP), turn on Mouzon, and exFAT seems to be with you and a lot of everything is recorded, but you can’t turn it on.