Jack 13088 Loc: Central NY

My simple rule: Sandisk outside of computer. Samsung inside. Sleep well.

wireloose

This happened to my daughter (bent an inserted thumb drive and it died) and she had no backup of what was on It. I pulled it apart and one of the tabs had pulled loose from the board. 5 minutes with my 40 year old soldering iron, which has a very fine tip, and she was operational and making a backup. Worth trying if the alternative is tossing the drive.

NCMtnMan Loc: N. Fork New River, Ashe Co., NC

They are probably USB 2.0 or else your USB ports on your computer are 2.0. The transfer rate for 2.0 is pretty slow, so it's not that the flash drives are bad, they just aren't fast. But, all USB 2.0 devices are slow. If your computer ports are 2.0 it will not speed things up if you use a USB 3.0 device.

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

About 3 months back, I picked up an ASUS ROG Strix Arion M.2 NVMe enclosure and put a 2TB M.2 drive in it... if your computer has high speed ports USB C, or thunderbolt... it is the fastest device out there... as fast as my M.2 internal drives. 2 TB USB sticks look interesting... will try to dig one up.

Dik

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I hope you can get your money back.

dbjazz Loc: Long Island, NY

Flash drives are notoriously unreliable. I have had many just die. They all ultimately fail if used often. I would not trust one for permanent storage and never with all of my photos.

SonyBug

I just bought a Samsung T5 500GB from Amazon for $110. Ordered it at noon yesterday and got it at 4:00PM.
It is SSD USB 3.2 and I have a new computer laptop 1TB SSB with 3.2 USB. So, how fast did it back up?
It backed up 325TB in 10 minutes. That is some kind of new record for my backups and the reason I buy good equipment...

Jack 13088 Loc: Central NY

Me thinks you typed TB rather than GB.

Mark Williams

Mine only had 32gb

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

Not part of the USB discussion, but for general information. M.2 drives are very reliable... better than mechanical drives. The combination I noted is extremely fast.

Dik

JerryOSF Loc: Bristol, VA

Google fake flash

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

I have about a dozen external hard drives most in the 2 TB range but a couple of older ones that are 1 TB. All I buy now are 4TB units but don't feel I can afford high capacity SSDs. I think the highest I've seen in these is 2 TB and it was nearly 400.00. When I set up my newest computer about 4 months ago it only came with a 1 TB internal so I have 4 externals hooked up to it. 2 - 2 TB, 1 - 5 TB, and 1 - 500 gb SSD. When I download a program like Paintshop Pro or Topaz I put them on the SSD so they will work faster. I also ordered and just received a 5 TB WD Black (it was the only drive I found with a 5 star rating). I will be downloading all my most inportant photos to that drive in the next few months. I wanted the high capacity thumb drives to back up important family and personal shots as I thought that would be a good thing to put in a bank box for safe keeping. I was ready to junk those drives I bought after looking at the video someone supplied and what some have said on here but some have said to give them another chance since thumb drives are notoriously slow and some have indicated they did get decent storage from these cheap drives. I will test again to see how much storage there really is on these before I trash them.

Ollieboy

Most of the reviews scream SCAM!!! Let's not forget which country they come from.

fetzler Loc: North West PA

Quite a number of these are fake. They actually do not hold 2TB. Even if they will hold this amount of data they are super S L O W. If it is not USB 3 it is likely fake and slow. Probably the same even if USB 3.

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

ASUS ROG Strix Arion M.2 NVMe enclosure is about 3x the size of a regular USB and it transfer speed is listed as USB-C™ 3.2 Gen 2 connectivity to deliver data transfer speeds of up to 10 Gbps

Dik