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

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Misleading and Bred!

Wanted to create a bootable installation/recovery USB drive for my Windows 10 PC using the "new" Windows 10 1093 ISO. My Media Creation Tool does not "recognize" B02 as an available USB. I used file explorer and found that the B02 has a CD drive behind the scenes; Also, I noticed that B02 has an SP service directory with files to activate the warranty. Both are NOT listed in the product description. If you see a "128GB" advertisement, you would expect it to mean 128GB of storage space available. Frustrated, I was in the process of reformatting the B02 in the hopes that this would also remove the B02's backstage CD drive. My hopes were dashed because the reformatting didn't remove the CD drive behind the scenes, and it's also frustrating that the B02 only has 115GB of FREE SPACE! So no, thanks to the behind-the-scenes CD drive. My Media Creation Tool does not recognize B02 as a "bootable" USB stick and my computer's system image backup does not recognize it as a valid backup location. So. All this makes "Silicon Power 128GB USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 Blaze B02 USB Flash Drive" extremely wrong.

Pros
  • Consistent test results
Cons
  • Mostly fine, but...