Review on Lexar JumpDrive M45 32GB 💾 USB 3.1 Flash Drive - LJDM45-32GBSLNA by Dallas Grover

Read speeds easily reach 200+ MB/s with just one USB 3.0 port. Tests show that the write speed is around 60MB/s. Depending on the test, I was able to score 60 points, but was stable in the write speed range of 58-60 MB/s. This device is made in Taiwan, so there is no ChiCom working support here. The device comes in Fat32 format with a cluster size of 128 KB, so the capacity is around 117 GB. I formatted ExFAT with a cluster size of 8192 bytes to reduce my capacity to 116GB. Note that a smaller cluster size results in slightly less declared capacity than formatting with a larger cluster size. Some of my other 128GB flash drives are large capacity, but Lexar is a 128 billion byte flash drive. Simply divide by 1024 a few times to get what your computer is showing. I recommend the 128GB version of this stick. It gets hot, but I was able to format it twice (not a quick format) and run some tests to make sure it's not a fake device (it isn't). I tend to avoid Sandisk USB sticks as they have an encrypted storage controller which can be corrupted with normal use. This has happened to me twice, which is why I buy drives that don't unnecessarily encrypt locations on the drive. I use a software encryption program to actually encrypt the files on the device. This provides a much less expensive recovery when I need to send a Lexar USB for data recovery.