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128GB USB 3.0 Flash price/performance/durability recommendations?
MilesAhead:
I've had really good luck with the JDV10 style/series of Lexar drive for the past several years. Unfortunately they only seem to go up to 64GB that I know if (I carry a 32 now).
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On the plus side, I can vouch for them handling getting wet (motorcycle...) and surviving quite well.
-Stoic Joker (March 13, 2015, 09:49 PM)
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I see Lexar has come out with P20 128GB claiming 400 MB/s read and 270 MB/s write. They seem to sell at discount houses for around $120. I'd like to test drive one of those. :)
Vurbal:
You're not likely to do better for flash storage than Lexar. There's a reason most professional photographers swear by their SD cards.
MilesAhead:
You're not likely to do better for flash storage than Lexar. There's a reason most professional photographers swear by their SD cards.
-Vurbal (March 14, 2015, 10:53 AM)
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If I see one on super duper discount maybe I'll spring for it. The Sata II spinner that's in my Laptop does Sequential Read at only 82 MB/s so that's all I'd be able to feed it unless/until I get an SSD.
Edit: TigerDirect has them for $104. Tempting but I'd probably only use 1/3 of the write speed.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9620384&SRCCODE=CHANNELINC&cisrccode=cii_7240425&cpncode=42-6746958
MilesAhead:
I got my Adata s102 128GB stick. After formatting it to NTFS I did a single sequential read/write test using Crystal Diskmark. This is freshly formatted no files on the stick. I got 111 MBs read and 65 MBs write. Not too bad. I did a Macrium backup to the stick. A 33 GB image file. I copied that to another partition on the HD from the stick. Transfer was 50 MBs according to the info shown by TeraCopy during the transfer. So for the Laptop I have to figure if the stick proves as durable as the other s102s I purchased, that I got a pretty good balance for my circumstances. At roughly $60 it is just over $.51 per gig. After formatting the stick had 114 GB capacity.
A possible explanation for the slow transfer is that I sliced off about 130 GB at the end of the drive to park stuff like ISO downloads and a backup image. Sata II that's probably not the fastest part of the platter(s). :)
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