I'm working on a project where I've bought over 30 flash drives of all sizes over the past few months. I bought a SanDisk, a Samsung, a couple of TEAMGROUPs and three Transcend sticks. I can honestly say that the Transcend drives I've received are iffy at best. I just threw all 3 in the trash! I've never been able to get them to do anything reliably. Sometimes the computer recognized them, sometimes not. Sometimes I could text them, and other times the recording just slowed down and never ended. I've tried different formats (ext4, HFS+, NTFS, fat32, etc.) and have had problems with these flash drives no matter what. None of my other drives had any problems - just Transcend's. If I had to guess, I'd say they were cheap fakes because that's how they behaved every time I used them. bottom line; I can't even trust them with temporary data as my work project requires it. Maybe I have 3 bad ones. Although I would say not to risk it. Avoid those flash drives!
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
Samsung BAR Plus 128GB - High-Speed USB 3.1 Flash Drive Titan Gray (MUF-128BE4/AM)
67 Review
Samsung BAR Plus 128GB USB 3.1 Flash Drive - 400MB/s - Champagne Silver (MUF-128BE3/AM)
65 Review
Shock-Resistant Transcend StoreJet 25M3 USB 3.1 Slim Portable Hard Drive with 500GB Capacity
99 Review
2 TB External HDD Western Digital WD Elements Portable (WDBU), USB 3.0, black
84 Review
Game console Microsoft Xbox One X 1000 GB HDD, black
53 Review
18 TB External HDD Western Digital WD Elements Desktop, USB 3.0, black
95 Review