I was amazed at the speed of this drive. 130 MB/s reading and 25 MB/s writing, which is very reasonable for the price. Would give it 5 stars but it didn't come with a drawstring as advertised. Above was my review of these drives when purchased a few months ago. The drives I recently received looked the same but now had an activity LED. Unfortunately, as you can see from the CDM reviews of old and new drives, there is a serious write speed issue. Read speeds are okay, but writing takes forever. After seeing this I bought several other brands of 32GB USB drives and ALL others even the more expensive MLC storage drives have the same SLOW write issues. It's a large set of read/write controller chips common to these USB drives that are at fault. Old drives of the same brands work fine; Only recently purchased drives exhibit this problem.
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