Review on Sandisk Extreme Pro Flash Drive by Adam EK ᠌

Name: Sandisk Extreme Pro Flash Drive
Item: Sandisk Extreme Pro Flash Drive
Rating: 5

May 24, 2023

Excellent product, the best quality.

After buying the drive, I advise you to format the file system with 128 Kb sectors in exfat, initially the drive was also formatted in exfat, only the sectors are divided into megabytes, which makes sense only for storing fat megabyte / gigabyte files, and all small files (in kilobytes or bytes) will occupy those very megabytes and waste precious space on the drive for nothing. For example, a folder with the game Counter Strike 1.6, which weighs 600 megabytes, takes up 7 gigabytes on a flash drive when formatted by default, almost 6.5 gigabytes was used for air.
Today it is the fastest flash drive in the world, built on MLC type of memory, therefore it is the best flash drive in the world, not only in terms of speed, but also in terms of durability. I advise all GIKs and people for whom the storage of information is not an empty phrase.
I will attach a couple of photos of the device live.
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Pros

1. High read and write speed, especially for small files. 2. Built on a pSSD controller, has a soldered 1.8 form factor SSD inside, that is, in fact, it is an ssd drive with a USB output. 3. The type of flash memory here is MLC (as in Transcend 730, 750, 780, Kingston HyperX Savage, Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT, Mach Xtreme Technology MX-LX, Silicon Power Blaze B50, SP Marvel M70 32GB ASM1142, Netac Z2 and several other less popular or not available for sale), that is, a very durable and expensive type of memory, therefore, this flash drive can easily outlive its owner without any problems, with proper care for it. 4. The size of the physical / logical sector on this flash drive is 512/512 bytes - which corresponds to the 512N sector marking format.

Cons

1. The built-in controller does not allow you to see: -Remaining drive life - current storage temperature - amount of recorded/downloaded information 2. Following the release of the USB 3.1 standard, USB-IF announced that USB 3.0 connectors up to 5 Gb/s (SuperSpeed) will now be classified as USB 3.1 Gen 1, and new USB 3.1 connectors up to 10 Gb/s (SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps) - like USB 3.1 Gen 2. Therefore, inside the drive is a 10-year old USB 3.0. 3. Strong heating when using the drive for a long time.