Review on Transcend JetFlash Flash Drive TS64GJF500 by Patrick Brinson

I bought a Transcend JetFlash 500 Retractable 16GB Flash Drive in September 2010. It is attached to my desktop PC as secondary storage most of the time. Only remove it occasionally to transfer files. So far everything has been working great for 1.5 years. It should be noted that I've used at least half a dozen USB sticks and 20+ flash memory cards over the past decade and none of them have ever let me down. So maybe I'm just more careful with semiconductor devices (I always discharge myself from possible static electricity before touching memory cards for example). The retractable USB connector on the Transcend drive also works the same way as it does on the Sandisk (I'm surprised no one has complained yet). But that's where the similarities end, because the Transcend JetFlash is much faster! When I first received this Transcend JetFlash drive, I tested it with several test programs to compare it to the Sandisk Cruzer Micro: Write speeds for typical Transcend photo files range from 6.8MB/s (for a 1MB file) to 11.3 MB/s (for a 5 MB file). In contrast, Sandisk only varies between 2.0 MB/s and 3.5 MB/s. That means Transcend is about three times faster than Sandisk! (See my customer images for details) - For very large video files, Transcend records at around 7.8 MB/s, while Sandisk only manages 5.1 MB/s. The difference is smaller but still significant. In terms of storage space, the Transcend drive reports 15.1 GB of total capacity, while the Sandisk drive reports 14.9 GB. Note that it is normal for a "16GB" flash drive to only show 14.9GB of storage, since for computer people (where 1GB = 230th power) 14.9GB is actually about 16,000,000,000 bytes. So, according to marketers, it can be called "16 GB" (where 1 GB = one billion bytes). Thus, the Transcend JetFalsh 16GB drive looks and functions the same as the Sandisk Cruzer Micro, but its write speed is +50% to +200. % faster than the last one. At the current price of just over $0.80/GB (half of what I paid for my device 20 months ago), this is excellent value for money. On the other hand, you can now buy a 16GB Kingston DataTraveler stick. The DT101G2 is about the same price, but the Kingston writes larger files faster (11.4MB/s versus 7.8MB/s). So overall I have to give the Kingston drive 5 stars and the Transcend drive 4 stars. Some additional notes: Several reviewers have reported poor experiences with this USB drive on Xbox 360. Right now, your only safe bet is to buy the Xbox 360, a 16GB USB 2.0 flash drive from SanDisk that costs twice as much. — If you don't want to use the software provided by Transcend, simply rename the "Autorun.inf" file (at the root of that drive) to something else, e.g. B. "Autorun._inf". You can then use it as a simple USB mass storage device.