Cheapest 64GB USB 3.0 flash drive available. $12 at Kmart. Lifetime limited warranty.
Powertech 10,000mAh Power Bank with USB-C and USB-A Ports. 18W PD charging.
Rovin 12V Portable Ceiling Fan with Cigarette Plug or Clips
Verbatim V3 USB 3.0 64GB Flash Drive $4.95, 10000mAh Power Bank $12.95, 12V Portable Ceiling Fan $19.95 + Del ($0 C&C) @ Jaycar
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Diameter 700mm … might still get one for my garden shed just to help with ventilation.
I got a few of the power banks last time they were this cheap and still holding up well.
Their description is slightly wrong about USB-C. It does support 18W PD charging.
I guess description between A and C are swapped
Review from the link: Good Value but found it extremely slow to put larger files on it
To be expected from a flash drive
USB 3.0 has a theoretical maximum transfer speed of 5 Gbps, even half of that speed should feel nice and fast.
From memory these are slower than some USB 2 drives.
Write speeds are always much lower than read. And maybe the reviewer didn't plug it into a USB 3 port
@belongsinforums: Did a quick test. In short, this USB flash drive essentially uses cost effective flash chips, but has a controller that's just enough to do reads at USB3 level. Writes, due to the cost saving, the NAND (which is most likely QLC) is just not able to write fast. It remains at USB2 speed. The flash drive seems to have a tiny bit of SLC cache, but it pretty much write at QLC like speed.
Sustained write speed at around 10-12MB/s (and that's for large files).
High expectations for a $4.95 flash drive 😂
USB 3.0 is the bus speed. Not a guarantee of read or write performance.
“Half of this” would be 300+ Mbyte/sec.
Actual flash drives might do 60-150Mbyte/sec. 🤷🏾
Many early bird usb c external sticks are slower than recent ones. iPhone usb c charges slower than pixel phones. A Pixel phone charges slower than Xiaomi and Oppo phones. They are all using usb c.
@bcYield: Have nothing to do with the topic. iPhone has been slow charging forever. Original charger coming with iPhone X is 2.5 times slower than the one coming with 12-year old (by that time) Nokia E52 using Micro USB.
Cheap USB sticks use cheap memory controllers and chips, whatever interface you add, it will be as slow as the chip and and controller.
I'll test and report back. In the recent Lexar deal someone was quoting an Amazon review that was clearly someone using a USB 2.0 port.
Quick Crystal DiskMark Test (FAT32 formatted, on AM4 so you should be able to get better results on AM5 or Intel):
Crystal DiskMark Verbatim V3 64MB Test Result
Read Write Mix Sequential (Q8T1) 137.867 MB/s 23.044 MB/s 6.900 MB/s Sequential (Q1T1) 131.801 MB/s 14.027 MB/s 8.160 MB/s Random 4K (Q32T16) 12.483 MB/s 0.039 MB/s 0.048 MB/s Random 4K (Q1T1) 11.246 MB/s 0.098 MB/s 0.073 MB/s You get what you paid for. I'd glad I only bought one. It's fine for Ventoy (since you will be putting ISO images in there and mostly doing reads). Not good for small files. Drive is FAT32 formatted by default so it could / should perform better if it is formatted using NTFS, but I don't expect a huge improvement. Does struggle with mixed and high queue depth writes and obviously optimised for sequential performance.
Actual file copying test: Copying a 1GB file also reveals that it has a small cache and once the cache is used up, the write speed is about 12.5MB/s.
Sequential read is at USB 3 level, write is basically at USB 2 performance level (likewise for mixed usage).
Yep this is pretty much my experience. Actual write speeds drop quickly. I'm not too fussed as it's still good enough for storage and bootable installers.
It reads funny calling fan with cigarette plug - what a feature!
To be installed on your car ceiling
need something to keep up the roof-liner sag
Doesn't the car have air cond? :-)
For older cars without airCon ;)
thanks op bought 6 usb sticks for throwaways when i want to share things with others and sometimes dont get the usb sticks back
stay free stay healthy :)Grabed two I'm sure in a USB 3.0 port these will be fine i hope
Misread, nearly thought it was a real ceiling fan I could just plug into a wall (we have a couple fans we need installed but it's a pain in the arse, this would have been a great stop gap til we get it done) but then I saw 12V and got sad.
Did grab a power bank and a couple 64 gigers though, cheers OP!
64gb for this price is not bad even if it's only usb 3.0. Install vertoy and throw your windows and linux isos on there and have a couple spare OS installer drives lying around, you'll never regret having too many when things go sideways
vertoy
*ventoy
Yep sorry
You legends, had not heard of ventoy. Now I don't have to feel silly having my 128gb USB with only 16gb of a windows 11 ltsc install on it. Can have all of the other random os images that I am interested in on it too.
Thanks OP! Good find on the USBs!
the 64 Gigs Prob wont be fast but I can chuck a few movies on each one so grabbing a couple
Any feedback on power bank, is it fast enough and safe enough to carry around?
Its charging speed is ok, 18w out. Not quick by any means but good enough for the price. But the big issue I see is that to charge the damn thing it only accepts the old micro b cable
Need a reason to buy these outdated thumb drives and over stocked power banks.
Here is one - It is on sale and OzBargainers never shy away from a bargain!!
for power banks, i'd hold out for the discounted iniu ones on amazon
Better support Jaycar!
It is a tough game out there.
Japan's Akihabara: gone
Germany's once thriving electronics stores: Conrad bankrupt, Saturn/Mediamarket (like JB GG) sold to China's PD giant.Plan C; Feed Gerry's dog and forfeit your warranty.
Japan's Akihabara: gone
Still lives on in Tokyo Radio Department Store. Slowly everyone is closing down.
We can get their reject Onigiris on our servos now…
Now they just need to bring in the egg or fruit sando.
Ah good ol' Jaycar, "Where customer service goes to die"
Bought a powerbank for pick up at York St and they called me to say no mote stock so will refund me :(
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