Review on SanDisk Cruzer Blade 8GB (5 Pack) SDCZ50-008G USB 2.0 Flash Drive - Five Pack Retail Bundle + Lanyards by Gregory Abercrombie

A pack of 5 USB 2.0 8GB Flash Drives for just over $25 is a good price. However, these flash drives are very slow. Writing 8GB of data to these discs takes about 36 minutes. Now, the $68 Sandisk Extreme Pro 256GB USB 3.1 Flash Drive writes 256GB of data at the same time. So this hard drive is many times slower in terms of write speed and many times cheaper. I bought them primarily as utility flash drives to store diagnostic programs for small portable computers. I leave one blank for BIOS updates. The two straps are only about 6 inches long, so they went straight to the trash can. If you want to copy a small amount of files and are willing to throw those things away when they go bad (postage costs more than buying new ones) and don't mind waiting all day to copy large files, then you will do that. Be satisfied with this purchase. If you have reasonable expectations for a $5 8GB flash drive, you shouldn't be disappointed. When used for rare and small files, these flash drives are suitable. For much more capacity and much faster speeds, consider SanDisk's Extreme Pro line of USB 3.1 flash drives. Today we live in a world where you pay less and get less and less. This is not a business. You literally get what you paid for. Spend more, get a lot more capacity and a lot more speed. Have reasonable expectations and you should not be disappointed in any way.