I was looking for cheap USB drives that I wouldn't use for various boot utilities, installs and more than 4GB Firmware flashes. Of course, there is always the problem of fake USB drives, where the real storage space is less than the advertised storage space and you just start overwriting data when it exceeds the real storage space. the memory is listed as ECD7947E64C4 - Samsung K9HDGY8U5B - 4CE/Single Channel [MLC-8K]. I ran them through a 3 pass low level factory format with UMPtool and they are indeed all 16GB. The test shows that they are lower, but close enough to the performance of the Sandisk Cruzer Glide (16 GB, USB 2.0). However, the random write performance is pretty poor. You can compensate for this with disk caching in Windows. Below are the test results. Overall it's 5 stars because the price is great, they're not fake and the performance is mostly ok. USB flash drive formatted as extfat with a default cluster allocation size of 4KB using a USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5Gb) port on an AMD controller, Windows 10, latest drivers Crystal Disk Mark test tool - 1 pass 128MB, FileEastfun[Read] 1 MB Serial (Q=8, T=1): 20.090 MB/s [19.2 IOPS] 1 MB Serial (Q=1, T=1): 20.106 MB/s [19.2 IOPS] Random 4 KB (Q=32, T=16): 11.748 MB/s [2868.2 IOPS] Random 4 KB (Q=1, T=1): 11.418 MB/s [2787.6 IOPS][Write] Serial 1 MB (Q=8, T=1): 5,868 MB/s [5.6 IOPS] Sequential 1 MB (Q=1, T=1): 6,690 MB/s [6.4 IOPS] Random 4 KB (Q =32, T=16): 0.003 MB/s [0.7 IOPS] Random 4 KB (Q=1, T=1): 0.008 MB/s [2.0 IOPS] Sandisk Cruzer Glide 16 GB (USB 2.0) [Read] Serial 1 MB (Q=8, T=1) ): 25.301 MB/s [ 24.1 IOPS] Serial 1 MB (Q=1, T=1): 25.985 MB/s [24.8 IOPS] Random 4 KB (Q=32, T=16): 6.950 MB/s [1696.8 IOPS] Random 4 KB (Q=1, T=1): 6.048 MB/s [1476.6 I OPS][Write] 1 MB serial (Q=8, T=1): 6.285 MB/s [6.0 IOPS] 1 MB serial (Q=1, T=1): 7.125 MB/s [6.8 IOPS] Random 4 KB (Q=32, T=16): 2.950 MB/s [720.2 IOPS]
Sandisk Ultra Flair 128 GB Silver USB Flash Drive: Reliable and High-Speed Storage
65 Review
Samsung BAR Plus 128GB - High-Speed USB 3.1 Flash Drive Titan Gray (MUF-128BE4/AM)
67 Review
Compact and Convenient: SanDisk Cruzer Fit USB 32GB Flash Drive (SDCZ33-032G-A11)
66 Review
32GB SanDisk USB Flash Drive (SDCZ430-032G-A46)
78 Review
π Seagate Backup Plus Slim STHN2000400 2TB Portable Hard Drive - Black: Your Reliable External Storage Solution
93 Review
8TB Seagate Backup Plus Hub Desktop Hard Drive with Data Recovery Services
56 Review
π Seagate Expansion 3TB Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (STEA3000400) in Black
60 Review
18 TB External HDD Western Digital WD Elements Desktop, USB 3.0, black
95 Review