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Review on Silicon Power 32GB USB Flash Drives 2-Pack: Convenient Blue and Green Thumb Drives by Robert Oner

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Good price but poor performance

As a previous owner of the B20 which is not available today I was hoping that the performance of this B02 would match the B20. Well, not even close. Please note that it gets 3 stars because of the capacity price. So if you don't care about read/write speeds, this is a great USB drive. However, I was hoping for pole performance with the B20, so I was disappointed. I hope Silicon Power will bring back the B20 model soon and make it competitive with other well-known brands. Note that the sequential read speed I get when using dd is around 70MB/s on average. That's a dismal writing performance. The B20 model, not this B02 model, averaged about 50 MB/s for a dd write. Another reason for 3 stars is that this USB stick comes in FAT32 format instead of the expected EXFAT format. The difference is that FAT32 supports file sizes up to 4GB, but it's a 64GB USB stick! EXFAT has a larger file size limit.

Pros
  • Great price
Cons
  • Useless features