I'm gonna start by echoing other reviews, these are not the fastest drives around, plain and simple. If you're looking for something super fast for a lot of writing data to the drive, look elsewhere like Sandisk, Samsung, or Kingston. These are slow to write, they're fine at first starting a transfer and then the write speed will tank if the files are anything of substance. But if you're doing mostly read intensive stuff these are fine. Mine have been great for bootable USB drives with Windows ISOs, macOS installers and patchers, and Ventoy. The read speeds are stable and fine enough for that in my experience. They might also be ok for a write occasionally read sometimes backup, but they should NOT be your only backup. (3-2-1 rule!!). If you need something simple, like bootable drives, a drive to throw some music/videos/media on and play on a TV/car/media player, store very simple small word documents and stuff, or you're ok with slow writes, these are fine for that. I'm not sure if this has applied to the 64GB model, but for other capacities there was inconsistency in reviews with some having status/activity LEDs and some not. I can say that the two 64GB drives I got in March 2024 DO have activity LEDs, but knowing how these drives are produced there's always a chance a different batch later on could have different parts and thus no LED, and then another batch could bring it back, so it's a toss up. Overall, I'm a loyal Micro Center customer and their drives on Amazon are wonderful value and I'm glad to be able to get them easily here instead of taking a big trip to the physical location! Read more
Worked like a charm, needed it to back up my music library. Excellent, good value Read more
I use these for backing up data that customers want from their phones. That means they are basically one time use for me. For that reason I am not concerned about long term or repeated use so I can't speak to that. They are inexpensive and get the job done. Read more
Pros: READ speed is fine Very reliable, never had one fail (on the 32 or 64GB) Nice dust cap that snaps in place Nice hole to put a wire through to keep on your key chain Nice bright, red light to tell you when it's being accessed Con: Very, very slow WRITE speed These drives are fine for storing data like movies or music to put in a TV or car. Very good for making USB utility tools for repairs or operating system installs. They read on all devices just fine. However, just expect long wait times to load things on these drives. If you can deal with that, they work great otherwise. Read more
I buy these because while they're cheaper, they don't feel or operate like cheap thumb drives. I have a whole drawer full of blank ones that I use like floppy disk. They're cheap enough to hand out with data and for some people they're easier to use than getting an email with a link. Read more
I PURCHASED 2 (TWO) 64GB MICRO CENTER FLASH DRIVES WHICH AMAZON LABELED THEM AS AMAZON'S CHOICE USB FLASH DRIVES! YES! AMAZON'S WAS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! THESE MICRO CENTER BRAND ARE EXCELLENT BRAND USB 3.0 FLASH DRIVES! ALL 2 TESTED WITH WELL KNOWN SOFTWARE TESTER h2testw_1.4 PRODUCED EXCELLENT RESULTS, NO FAKES SIZES! NO ERRORS! NO DESTROYED DATAS! RECORDED SPEED FOR THESE 64GB 3.0 FLASH DRIVES WERE GREAT IN CONSISTENT WITH 3.0 USB 5.0MB/SEC WRITE CHARACTERISTICS AND PRODUCED 17GB/SEC WRITE AND 34GB/SEC READ! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR ANYONE WHO NEED GREAT VALUED EXCELLENT 3.0 USB FLASH DRIVES WITHOUT FAKE SIZES, ERRORS AND DATA DESTROYED PROBLEMS THAT USUALLY COMES WITH THOSE NEW/UNKNOWN/FUNNY NAME BRAND THAT WIDELY AVAILABLE WITH SUPER FAKELY 'CHEAP' PRICES ON THE MARKET EVERYWHERE BEWARE! YOU PURCHASE THOSE FAKE USB DRIVES/MICRO SDCARDS ...... LABELED AS "FAKE" 128GB, 512 GB.... ACTUALLY YOU'LL GET ONLY CHEAP 8GB OR 16GB DRIVES/CARDS THAT WOULD ERASE/DESTROY YOUR IMPORTANT/VALUABLE DATAS! REMEMBER THE TRUTH, A LOT OF MANUFACTURER CLAIM THEIR USB FLASH DRIVE HAS 100-150GB/SEC READ AND 70-50GB/SEC WRITE BUT MOSTLY.... IN REALITY THOSE DRIVES/CARDS ONLY MET ONE HALF OR ONE THIRD OF ITS LISTED SPECS, SO 150GB/70GB USB DRIVES ACTUAL SPEED MAYBE 50-75GB/SEC READ AND 25-35GB/SEC WRITE! AND THOSE ARE FROM WELL KNOWN GOOD BRAND NAMES LIKE SANDISK, LEXAR, KINGSTON, PNY, HP, ADATA, PATRIOT, SAMSUNG, SONY, VERBATIM. SILICON POWER, MICRO CENTER ETC ETC ... BUT BECAREFUL WHEN YOU BUY THOSE 95% UNKNOWN/NEW/FUNNY BRAND NAMES AND INCREDIBLE FAKE SIZES 1TB, 512TB, 2TB, 128GB, 256GB USB FL DRIVES/MICROSD CARDS, THAT SELLS FOR UNBELIEVABLE SUPER CHEAP CHEAP PRICES! YOU'D GET FAKE DRIVES/CARDS THAT WOULD DESTROY/ERASE YOUR VALUABLE/IMPORTANT DATAS! IT'S NOT WORTHED FOR THE TROUBLES/HEADACHES! ONLY POSSIBLY 5% OF SUPER CHEAP NEW/UNKNOWN/FUNNY BRAND NAMES ARE REAL AND GOOD AND WHEN YOU FOUND ONE, SPREAD THE NEWS LET US KNOW ABOUT IT. SO EVERYONE, BE SMART, ONLY BUY GOOD WELL KNOWN BRAND NAMES THAT PROVEN GOOD BY USER/CUSTOMER AND TELL AMAZON, EBAY AND THOSE FAKE/FRAUD/EVIL SUPPLIERS/MANUFACTURERS .... STOP DOING BUSINESS WITH FAKE/FRAUD/EVIL MANUFACTURERS AND ONLY WANT TO DO FRAUD/FAKE BUSINESS AND RUINING OUR VALUABL;E/IMPORTANT DATAS WITH THEIR FAKE/FRAUD ITEMS!! IF THEY WILL NOT DO IT THEN STOP DOING BUSINESS WITH THEM COMPLETELY!! AND FOR ALL OF US THE USERS/CUSTOMERS, TRY, PROVE AND SUPPORT GOOD VALUE BRAND NAME LIKE MICRO CENTER BY BUYING A LOT OF THEIR PRODUCTS SO THEY CAN EXPAND AND GROW NICELY "HONESTLY" PRODUCING MORE EXCELLENTS PRODUCTS AT GREAT VALUED PRICES FOR ALL OF US !! SUPPORT AND BUY GREAT VALUE MANUFACTURERS!! DESTROY AND STOP BUYING THOSE "FAKE/FRAUD/EVIL" SUPPLIERS/MANUFACTURERS NOW!! SPREAD THESE IMPORTANT NEWS/INFOS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS ONLINE/WORLDWIDE !! DO IT! SAVE OUR IMPORTANT VALUABLE DATAS NOW!! Read more
My favorite brand flash drives. Pros: Internal LED to show USB activity. USB 3.0 fast file transfers when plugged into a USB 3.0 (blue) port. Great price. Cons: Cap is completely removable and will probably get lost easily. I would buy again. These read in every device I plug them into, while some other brands formatted the same exact way would not read in my car stereos USB port to play music from the USB drive. These just work everytime. Read more
