PNY 128GB USB3 USB Key US $44.99 + $5 Shipping @ Amazon (~ $52 AUD Delivered)

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Posted here before a couple of times but expired.

Performance Specs from the previous post below:

Pretty decent specs and the one i have seem to match the various reviews on performance.

Sequential Read : 197.193 MB/s
Sequential Write : 104.529 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 151.087 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 32.768 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 4.596 MB/s [ 1122.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.110 MB/s [ 26.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 5.005 MB/s [ 1221.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.085 MB/s [ 20.6 IOPS]

Test : 100 MB [F: 0.1% (0.1/119.2 GB)] (x5)

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  lplau on 07/07/2014 - 14:00

  Perfect timing for all those people who bought a Wii U Skylander Bundle. lol.

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    jztilly on 07/07/2014 - 14:06

    hmm good idea :) i was trying to find the fastest USB2 stick I could but this thing would max out the USB2 ports on the Wii U yeh?

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      lplau on 07/07/2014 - 14:07

      yea, this would just max out at USB2.

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        lostn on 07/07/2014 - 14:13

        -1

        Seems a bit of a waste to use a USB3 stick to max out USB2, but I guess it's cheap enough.

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        lplau on 07/07/2014 - 14:18

        @lostn:

        It is a waste, however a USB2 stick would cost more than the USB3 stick. lol. So economically it is not a waste.

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    TimmyShooterB on 07/07/2014 - 14:50

    I agree it would be good for a Wii U, but who on OzBargain is buying full-priced games from the Nintendo eShop?

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  bonky on 07/07/2014 - 14:08

  No read/write switch! 8((

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    lostn on 07/07/2014 - 14:12

    +2

    You mean write protect? I don't know of any USB sticks that have that. SD cards do, and old floppy disks did..

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  typhoonadventure on 07/07/2014 - 14:16

  +6

  I honestly wouldn't recommend these at this price, I bought two of them during the last sale, the device itself is OK, its not super fast but its not super slow, doesn't live up to the specs. each stick seems to perform different.

  The build quality too is horrendous, the plastic caps break off easy and the plastic still has molding breaks on it meaning if you move these around a lot it's gonna break pretty soon and there is limited protection for the usb connector in the way of structure.

  Hold off until they get cheaper, at this price all its worth doing is using them as small hard drives that never get switched such as plugged in to a dvr or a console for extra space.

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  zetmandude on 07/07/2014 - 14:46

  I bought this two months ago, works on usb2 port, but not working on USB3 port, I test it on 5 different PCs, format it to NTFS　exfat， so I think there is a hardware problem. when plug on USB3 it will drop and remount itself after a while. never works consistent. on usb2 port it is very stable.

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  RedHab on 07/07/2014 - 15:24

  +1

  Seems like the early ones were good, then PNY started using crappy components.

  Kingston and PNY caught bait-and-switching cheaper components after good reviews
  http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184253-ssd-shadiness-king…

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  eug on 07/07/2014 - 15:26

  Bought this a while back. Works great - it's fast. I get 85-90MB/s write and 100-110MB/s read. I can image a whole computer's OS drive onto it.

  With the same 2GB test file on the same laptop, I get 58MB/s write and 110-118MB/s read with my Sandisk Extreme USB3.0 16GB stick.

  I haven't had any problems with the cap breaking off so far. 3 of my friends bought them too and they haven't complained yet.

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  WV1 on 07/07/2014 - 15:31

  I purchased at last sale. It works ok in computer but my other devices such as tv's, phones etc do not support it.

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  chalky on 07/07/2014 - 17:18

  -1

  After reading around about the flood of fake usb drives, I decided to buy one from OfficeWorks (price matched from MSY) - just a 32gig though. There was one ebay seller selling a similar drive like here for around $35 and had nearly a 100% rating - simply because most of the buyers probably never tested the full capacity of the drive.

  For some reason, I suspect this could be a fake usb drive that has been reflashed to display as 128gig when in fact the real capacity could be 16/32gig. If that has been the case, the drive will usually report as full once you reach the true capacity of the drive, or overwrite your existing data, thus causing data corruption.

  Read this artcile if you're interested in knowing more
  http://www.ebay.com/gds/BEWARE-of-FAKE-128GB-256GB-USB-Flash…

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    eug on 07/07/2014 - 17:19

    +3

    You must have missed the several other times this drive has been posted. Lots of us have bought it. It is a real 128GB drive.

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    lplau on 07/07/2014 - 22:56

    +2

    If its sold by Amazon themselves (not a merchant), then the chances of it being fake is as high as the chances of Officeworks being fake.

    Fake drives have been around for almost 10 years, there were fake drives of 16GB where as they were just 512MB drives which were hacked.

    So fake USB drives aren't new.

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  drmac on 07/07/2014 - 17:48

  +2

  Purchased one six weeks ago and have just sent it back - it only gets recognised about 30% of the time regardless of computer, OS or format/filesystem - seems to be hardware issue as sometimes the indicator lights just simply go on at all.

  Amazon was good about the return though - even though I'm a few days over, and they're refunding my return postage costs too.

  I won't buy a replacement, instead I'll wait for something more reliable.

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    lplau on 07/07/2014 - 23:02

    +2

    I am guessing you were plugging it into USB2 port?
    The drive may chew up too much power for your USB2 ports to handle which is why it may not recognize.

    Older USB2 ports (which were more compliant) only outputted 500ma which isn't quite enough for many of the devices nowadays, which is why most newer USB2 ports will output up to 1000ma, however still carries the limitation of 1000ma per 2 ports (USB2 ports are usually bundled in 2's).

    So:
    1 Port Used = 1000ma
    2 Port Used = 1000ma / 2 (assuming both devices use equally the same current).

    If you plug it in USB3 though. since USB3 standard allows for more current to be pass through (i cannot remember off the top of my head), this allows hard drives and more power consuming thumb drives to be powered, they have an extra 5 pins which feed power and more data.

    Although USB3 is backwards compatible with USB2 but this is used in the most loosest meaning of backwards compatible, you can probably use the USB3 drive if you get a Y Cable and plug it into 2 USB2 ports, so you can manage to get enough power to power the USB3 device.

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  C-Nut on 07/07/2014 - 21:22

  Anyone know approximately how long it takes to get delivered? (To Melbourne)