Micro Center SuperSpeed 5 Pack 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Gum Size Memory Stick Thumb Drive Data Storage Jump Drive (64G 5-Pack)

Needed flash drives that didn't break the bank. These fit the bill. Fast file transfer, and very reliable.

To preface, I like Micro Center a lot and have had a couple of thumb drives from them that I have got for free through coupons. I bought this pack so I have enough on hand for many purposes. A very good value pack of quality thumb drives that can be used for many purposes. I myself use a few of them to store individual ISO files and some with a multi-boot ISO program for holding multiple ISO files on a single drive. They work really well as individual boot drives and decently well as basic storage drives. It transfers small files individually pretty fast. But if your files are pretty large or you are transferring a very large amount of files, then it might feel a bit slow. But that is pretty much a given for most flash drives. Overall, great option for a pack of quality thumb drives that work really well for a handful of use cases.

I'm gonna start by echoing other reviews, these are not the fastest drives around, plain and simple. If you're looking for something super fast for a lot of writing data to the drive, look elsewhere like Sandisk, Samsung, or Kingston. These are slow to write, they're fine at first starting a transfer and then the write speed will tank if the files are anything of substance. But if you're doing mostly read intensive stuff these are fine. Mine have been great for bootable USB drives with Windows ISOs, macOS installers and patchers, and Ventoy. The read speeds are stable and fine enough for that in my experience. They might also be ok for a write occasionally read sometimes backup, but they should NOT be your only backup. (3-2-1 rule!!). If you need something simple, like bootable drives, a drive to throw some music/videos/media on and play on a TV/car/media player, store very simple small word documents and stuff, or you're ok with slow writes, these are fine for that. I'm not sure if this has applied to the 64GB model, but for other capacities there was inconsistency in reviews with some having status/activity LEDs and some not. I can say that the two 64GB drives I got in March 2024 DO have activity LEDs, but knowing how these drives are produced there's always a chance a different batch later on could have different parts and thus no LED, and then another batch could bring it back, so it's a toss up. Overall, I'm a loyal Micro Center customer and their drives on Amazon are wonderful value and I'm glad to be able to get them easily here instead of taking a big trip to the physical location!

I've been buying these little Microcenter sticks regularly since the 32gb variants were $70, and that was a bargain back then. They continue to get bigger, and are still cheap! Luckily, they're cheap... Because that's mostly the appeal. You'll see a lot of reviews complaining about speeds, and others glowing about speeds. Here's the breakdown on this: it depends. Silicon is not a perfect process, there will always be variations. In my attached pictures, you'll see very different numbers for the different capacities.. And guess what? If I had multiples of the same capacities, you'd likely see similar variations between the "same" drives.. Because no two pieces of silicon are going to perform the same. When you pay more for a thumb drive, you're paying for a process known as "binning", where the company only uses silicon that meets certain specs they're going for. Inland (manufacturer of the Microcenter drives), as far as I'm aware, uses the "rejected" silicon of other companies. "How awful!", you're thinking... But it's really not. A lot of the time, there's nothing at all wrong with the silicon, it just didn't meet the original manufacturer's standards. It's why these sticks are so cheap, and usually why the performance varies so wildly from stick to stick. There are many technical aspects of these I can dwell on, but basically, these are relatively awful devices, but at awfully excellent prices. I've been buying them for years, and while performance is laughable, I myself haven't had one die on me. I've felt like I'd die waiting for some transfers to complete, but the sticks themselves keep going. Even my $70 32gb stick back from 2009 is still going. I use it to bootstrap a mini computer that lacks an HDD. This, again, is all wildly variable... You may have it die on you, or you may have excellent luck, like I've had... But that's really how all products are these days. Sad but true. Luckily Microcenter will swap it out for you if it messes up. I will ding these one star for the controller. The Phison chips choke easily. If I'm writing to a drive at all, reading is out of the question. These things cannot read while writing to save their lives. So if you're planning on running a live OS on it (such as making a Linux stick), these are hard to recommend for that purpose. Even downloading a small file, it can cause the system to go unresponsive for upwards a minute at a time while the controller figures out what it's actually doing. So to sum up, for movies, music, documents, any typical daily usage, etc.. These are fine little sticks. They are terrible for live OS purposes. They've been reliable for me, and the performance is going to vary from stick to stick. If you need something more consistent, by all means, pay more.. But for most of my uses, these are my workhorses. Update: 2/10/21: still going strong. Have purchased more of these since this review, and no issues. My original 32gb stick from 2009 finally died, but it was physical damage from me accidentally snapping the plug off of it when it was plugged in. Almost 12 years out of a "cheap" stick is quite impressive, and I wish I could've seen how much longer it would have gone had I not broken it. Amazon is recommending I make a mention of storage capacity (as "advertised", though keep in mind the overheads. 256GB will not actually be 256gb, as roughly 15% is overhead. This applies to all drives) Amazon also recommends I mention "ease of use"... It's a thumb drive. They all work the same way. Plug em in and put stuff on em. And finally, Amazon recommends I mention "warmth", and this is a recommendation I agree is worth discussing. I never even considered it an issue until I was looking at other drives to serve as a boot drive, and indeed, these drives do emit some heat when under load. It's noticeably warmer than it would be when idle, but never a cause of concern. I wouldn't bother mentioning it unless I was asked about it, as it never seemed abnormally warm.

extremely fast shipping. these TD's area great. looks soooo cool and transfer plenty fast enough.

Not much to say about a fish drive, works great and the price is reasonable

Flash drives come in handy all the time!

These are exactly what I needed to install multiple versions of software on multiple machines. They have two features that make them excellent in this service. (1) they have a large flat surface that's ideal to stick a label, saying what's on the stick (2) they flash brilliantly when accessed. You have no doubt when the BIOS is accessing them. They are slow to write, but that's ok in this service. They read somewhat faster, fast enough so I have no complaints when installing softare. I have purchased more than 20 of these. They are cheap enough to give away to friends. I've never seen a read or wirte error. In my experience they are flawless.

Very fast - and no data errors - found yet - will test the key to the very end to be sure !

Fast - no wait time - to finalize a file - no corruption or data issues with the 5 I use now - very good product - I hope to see them double the capacity - and do just as well ! Tech Reviews - Microsoft - Hi-Tech Info - Dell.

It works very well - fast video save and read time. Lots of space for a day to TV for playback. Use your computer as your PVR.

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