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Look how far we have come

July 6, 2016 by Alan Stainer

Look how far we have come

I was poking around on Amazon the other day and found this. It’s a 256 GB flash drive for just under £11.

So I bought two.

After opening the package and holding it for the first time, my immediate impression was, “Wow. This is solid.” In other words, it doesn’t feel cheap at all.

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  1. Chris Guiver says

    July 6, 2016 at 2:55 pm

    i bought a “sony” one from ebay a few years back, i’ve still yet to fill it.

    i test before i trust with data, and test procedure (writes till full) was eventually stopped days later (when i remembered) having written thousands of times listed capacity. needless to say almost no data verified valid (first few gb only). fsck was clean, regardless i re-partioned, re-did testing and same result. hope you have better luck. ps: mine was a thing of beauty, still best usb-drive i’ve seen, but useless for intended purpose.

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  2. Martin Zeitler says

    July 19, 2016 at 7:07 am

    it this price, it might be counterfeit chips – or rather slow I/O.

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