This is in the Gold Box for the day from Amazon US and is $50USD off down to $29.99USD.
Best eBay price is about $75AUD shipped, this equates to about $49.80AUD using the Amazon currency conversion. So under $50 for a small form factor thumb drive, which is pretty useful for laptops and media streamers.
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how i wish my girlfriend will prefer something TINY……wait, do i even have a gf?
You won't need a gf with 128GB worth of pr0n in your pocket at all times.
Seeing the size of these things makes me hope next gen of surface pro might have a few extra USB ports. 256gb is easily enough for applications etc but I really miss having half terabyte minimum…
I won't like this thing on my surface, heating and battery draining. It's better to have a fast microsd card for the surface. But a bit expensive.
I want it for all the extra storage that you don't need to access often and don't need high speeds for.
I guess ideally, if surface pro could accept multiple SD cards, that would be ideal. Although this is still a 33% cheaper than SD card at this capacity and relatively a lot a faster.
Ssd is awesome but if I had the choice of 1tb HDD at same price I'd probs take that in stead
Does anyone have any thoughts or experience on the practical speeds of this drive to run a portable bootable OS?
Should there be significant "lag" at USB 3 operating speeds etc?
couldn't resist!
have 2x 32GB of the USB2.0 version. love them, but they are so slow! this should be a handy replacement!
Got it, cool.
Votes reached 200 - got peer pressured to buying one!
Already received shipping notification from Amazon
Game over peeps!
Back to normal pricing US$77.68…
didn't make it :(
Still shows as 29.99 and 5 for shipping for me
"Ends in 03h 42m 26s"
ANYONE using this on a Mac as an extra "Harddrive"? My retina Mac only has 256gb … Thinking of using this to store iPhoto library and have it constantly plugged in.
I bought one for my Air 128GB, would probably stick in and leave it there.
It'd be comparatively slow for write operations, but for a photo library I can't see the harm (although you'd want to keep a backup).
Did anyone get an email saying that they're "processing a refund"? With the reason for refund being: "Shipping address is undeliverable"?
Mine's been sent apparently, Estimated delivery time: 21st August.
mine arrived today
Has a small attachment slot on the drive itself, none on the 'case' portion and is not supplied with one (for those who were commenting earlier about attaching this to keyrings etc)
Received mine but the write speed is woeful. Much slower than I had hoped. Wonder if formatting differently to FAT32 will make any difference and whether I should submit a return/replace/refund claim. Might check reviews and post this result on the Amazon product page first.
Writing speed: 12.8 MByte/s
Reading speed: 99.0 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
is that the 'default' exfat formatting?
mine was showing about 28-30MB/s writing speeds in my test on my laptop, but it depended on allocation size and file size (
No. It came formatted FAT32. As I said, I might try formatting differently to see it that improves it. I just used H2testw v1.4 and whatever default settings it uses for testing.
@SBOB: OK, that UsbFlashSpeed.com FlashBench test gives better write results still using the same FAT32 it came formatted with.
Read speed: 107.02 MB/s
Write speed: 27.44 MB/s
I got $17 store credit from Amazon rep last time. But When I add the item, can't see any deduction apply, Does anyone know how to use Amazon store credit? Thanks.