💿 Verbatim 16GB Metal Executive USB Flash Drive - Silver: The Ultimate Combination of Style and Storage (98748) Review

I have bought several of these. Some of them are used as bootable flash drives for various utilities like Win10 Installer, Macrium Rescue, Gparted, and Clonezilla. Everything works fine in this configuration with a USB 3.0 or USB 2.0 port and boots great with every utility I need. I used one as an MP3 player in my parents' car and my parents were appalled that it didn't have a CD player. Baffled that CDs were obsolete, it was easy enough to copy their CDs onto this drive (with plenty of room…

Runs on Windows 10 Home; Reformatted the device to exFAT. Seems solid enough to use on a keychain BUT its writing performance is SLOW SLOW SLOW. Copying 138MB PDF files takes 11 seconds, half the speed of my old HP USB 2.0 Flash Key, but much longer than my SanDisk 3.0 Ultra's 3.5 seconds. Sandisk CZ48 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive - SDCZ48-128G-U46 A 468MB video file is copied in 17.7 seconds compared to 8.6 seconds on the SanDisk 3.0 Ultra, slightly slower than the 5 seconds of my Sandisk 3.1…

Well, it's a nice "executive style" flash drive, but the inside is bullshit. I'm a manager and I wouldn't trust my data on this and I wouldn't have the patience for it. Under slow disks, it is slow. I could see that this is only used for a few non-critical files, or maybe to throw a few MP3 files into your computer or something. I don't think I would have had the patience to fill it up at less than 5MB/s. There are other drives like the Samsung Bar or the (slightly mediocre Sony USB-C combo)…

Important to know: USB 2.0 - It's not fast. USB 3.0 and 3.1 are much faster, but when I bought it, I couldn't find a well-known brand flash drive with such standards. I mainly use this to keep a copy of my resume and not suffer the indignities of online file sharing solutions if a friend has the file I need, so no big deal. Keychain Hole - It's actually not big enough to let a bunch of keys through. practical, which is a bit silly and leads to my next point. Material - I can't tell what it's…

Excellent durable metal case with simple and concise design. It comes with a key ring so you can add it to your keychain or attach it to your lanyard. It's Verbatim so I hope it lasts a long time. However, this is the slowest flash drive I've seen. This is USB 2.0 with a maximum transfer rate of up to 480Mbps (60MB/s) according to the standard. I can write to it at 3.584 Mbps (0.44 MB/s). It's excruciatingly slow! For 1GB documents you will have to wait about 40 minutes. I can signal my data…

I bought a Verbatim 32GB flash drive almost exactly a year ago. I've used it probably 20 times since it was mostly for casual use last year. Most of the time it just stayed in my backpack. About a month ago I noticed that my Macbook doesn't recognize it and uses a different method to transfer the files I need. Then I tried again today, this time on my Windows desktop. Windows recognized the drive just fine and I was able to view its contents. However, some files appeared strange (e.g…