SanDisk 512GB Ultra USB 3.0 Flash Drive - SDCZ48-512G-G46, Black

I like the Sandisk flash drives. They work very well, mine has even been through the washing machine, and it still works great. I've tried some off brand flash drives and I have had many problems with them, the last one quit working entirely, I could not even format it. So these days I only buy Sandisk flash drives.

Works as expected but if I were to buy another it would be larger capacity Why did you pick this product vs others?:Price was a huge factor as well as brand name I was confident in purchasing

Compact and sleek, this SanDisk flash drive worked flawlessly as a Linux boot drive and has proven reliable for storing media files—exactly the quality I expect from SanDisk. Highly recommended for anyone needing a dependable, unobtrusive USB drive.

So far so good, I love the Scandisk brand so it was a no Brainer when I saw 2 for the price. Yes, I recommend and yes I would purchase again.

It's decent, though physically a little flimsy. I was getting terrible file copy rates at first, copying from my SSD to the flash drive. Terrible as in measured in KB/s, or single-digit MB/s. Nothing close to the 130 MB/s speeds mentioned on the product page. I tested this on two separate Windows 11 computers, making sure I was using USB 3.0 slots. After doing some Googling, I did the following to increase the speed under Windows 11:1. Format the drive using NTFS instead of FAT2. In Properties for the drive, General tab, turn off indexing3. In Properties for the drive, Hardware tab, click on the Sandisk drive, click Properties, then Change Settings, Policies tab. Click Better Performance, and check the Enable Write Caching box.After this, the average speeds are much much higher, sometimes even briefly exceeding 130 MB/s. I'm seeing 30's, up to 80's or higher, and back down again. All in all, I think any slow speeds have more to do with Windows than this product.Hope this helps someone. Do the above steps at your own risk, but they made things better for me.

Can t go wrong with this brand, have sandisk flash drive older than 10 years and still reliable as day 1, just upgrading for speed.

This is a USB 3 memory stick that comes with a link to SanDisk to download software of various types for backing up and moving files/pictures etc from phones and computers. I am not interested in these but you may be. I bought this to use as a music repository for my spouses car radio, which requires USB3 not USB2. (Note: USB 3 devices can be determined by the blue liner inside the connector.) This works fine for the purpose. It has a nice push button on the top that you use to extract the connector from the case, and pull back to return it. This is a nice size for portability. USB3 is quite a bit faster than USB2, which may matter for certain devices.

Great capacity! I recommend this item.