Every year, USB flash drives get cheaper and hold more data. Unfortunately, they don’t always get faster. The reality is, many USB 3.0 flash drives aren’t noticeably faster than their U…
I got a Sandisk Ultra Dual Drive Go 128GB for ~$15. It’s fast, small, inexpensive, and does both USB-C and USB-A. Sandisk is one of the best when it comes to reliability, but I’ve only had it for a couple weeks (bought to replace a cheap POS), so I guess we’ll see how it holds up.
I got it because the noname brand I bought before wouldn’t work for installing Linux, and it was really slow and took an hour to flash a 16GB ISO. The Sandisk is a lot faster, flashing the same ISO in a couple min (something like 100+ MB/s sustained IIRC).
My main complaint is that it’s plastic, so the housing will probably break if I use the keychain option, but there’s a more expensive metal line (Luxe) that would probably suit that use case if you need.
They seem to be pretty widely available, I picked mine up at Best Buy because I needed it same-day.
Edit: one minor downside is the drive does get a bit hot when doing lots of reads or writes. So if you’re constantly reading and writing a ton of data, you could run into longevity issues if the temps stay high.
I got a Sandisk Ultra Dual Drive Go 128GB for ~$15. It’s fast, small, inexpensive, and does both USB-C and USB-A. Sandisk is one of the best when it comes to reliability, but I’ve only had it for a couple weeks (bought to replace a cheap POS), so I guess we’ll see how it holds up.
I got it because the noname brand I bought before wouldn’t work for installing Linux, and it was really slow and took an hour to flash a 16GB ISO. The Sandisk is a lot faster, flashing the same ISO in a couple min (something like 100+ MB/s sustained IIRC).
My main complaint is that it’s plastic, so the housing will probably break if I use the keychain option, but there’s a more expensive metal line (Luxe) that would probably suit that use case if you need.
They seem to be pretty widely available, I picked mine up at Best Buy because I needed it same-day.
Edit: one minor downside is the drive does get a bit hot when doing lots of reads or writes. So if you’re constantly reading and writing a ton of data, you could run into longevity issues if the temps stay high.