Thursday, April 18, 2019

Re: [Avid-L2] Favorite / Best USB 3 thumb drives

 

Take a look at this chart.



It's a good start.. My experience is that if the manufacturer does not give you speed specs, it's not fast enough. ;-) You pay for speed. Cheap USBs are not fast. For low volume work, most brand name USB 3 thumb drives are fast enough.

If you need fast, SSDs, though slightly less convenient, are the best investment. Much faster and bigger. Small enough to carry around, but big enough so you don't lose them.. 

I've been buying Samsung T5s. $100 for 500GB @400MBps




On Apr 17, 2019, at 11:39 AM, Mark Santora mrsantora@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Agreed.  But I'm not looking to replace a drive, I'm looking for a thumb drive to toss a quick file onto and walk it somewhere else.  Something I can throw in my bag / pocket and forget about unless I need it.

Mark

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On 4/17/2019 5:36 AM, Bouke bouke@editb.nl [Avid-L2] wrote:
 

I've not yet found a thumb drive that is as fast as a spinning USB3 drive.

The 500 gig ones are dirt cheap. (Around friends here there are at least some 20 circling around varying from 500gig to 4TB..)

I do have on SSD with an adapter, but it seems that the USB3 connection is not spectaculair faster than  the spinning drive speeds, so it's a bit overkill I would think.

Another option would be to use memory cards, but again, they are not really faster, just more expensive and easier to loose.
(I don't care about the size, well, actually I like some space to put a sticker on with a 'please return to' (as if :-) …)


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On 17 Apr 2019, at 10:16, Roger Shufflebottom rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


I've been pretty happy with SanDisk. I tried a large 'MyMemory' drive and it didn't perform as well.

With Best Wishes, Roger Shufflebottom +44 7973 543 660


On Wednesday, 17 April 2019, 08:32:43 BST, Mark Santora mrsantora@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 


Looking for some thumb drive suggestions. Preferably in the 128gb or high variety. I keep running into middling performance / stability.

What's your favorite? 

Mark


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