WD makes flash drives!

[VirtualLarry]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/WD-Easystore-64GB-USB-3-0-Flash-Drive-Blue/202380278449

WD EasyStore flash drive, 64GB USB3.0, on BestBuy on ebay.

Edit: Now that I think about this, I think that WD EasyStore (tm), is only sold at BestBuy, so these may be a BestBuy-only item. Interesting.

I guess it shouldn't be too surprising, though, since WD bought SanDisk, and has been offering SSDs for some time now.

The price is kind of high, though. The equivalent 64GB SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 slider drive, is $17.99 at my local Walmart.

 

[Shmee]

Wow ya price is high. Usually with flash drives, chepest price/GB is best. Unless they have some great Nand and controller with awesome speed, that can justify the price increase.

 

[nosirrahx]

This is (IMO) the best high end price to performance flash drive. I own 3 of them and have benched it against several other 3.1 speed flash drives. It is consistently faster than all of them in both copy to and copy from time.

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-SDCZ880-128G-G46-Extreme-128GB-Solid/dp/B01MU8TZRV

I would be amazed if this WD drive is even 25% as good.

 

[Batmeat]

This is (IMO) the best high end price to performance flash drive. I own 3 of them and have benched it against several other 3.1 speed flash drives. It is consistently faster than all of them in both copy to and copy from time.

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-SDCZ880-128G-G46-Extreme-128GB-Solid/dp/B01MU8TZRV

I would be amazed if this WD drive is even 25% as good.

I have two of the 256gb models. I totally agree with you

 

[UsandThem]

They sure make them (both product and packaging) pretty generic looking compared to their competitors (or even their own Sandisk brand).

I've never seen them at any store, so they will need to get them into B&M stores.

 

[VirtualLarry]

This is (IMO) the best high end price to performance flash drive. I own 3 of them and have benched it against several other 3.1 speed flash drives. It is consistently faster than all of them in both copy to and copy from time.

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-SDCZ880-128G-G46-Extreme-128GB-Solid/dp/B01MU8TZRV

I would be amazed if this WD drive is even 25% as good.

I needed some USB 3.0 flash drives on short notice, and Walmart was just up the street, so we picked up a 2x 32GB SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 flash drive, for $24.99. If I had enough time to wait for a walmart associate to pull the item, I could have ordered it for in-store pickup, for $19.99 + tax instead. Oh well.

Anyways, write speeds from my VisionTek 120GB GoDrive SSD, with several thousand .jpg pics from a digicam, was between 5-15MB/sec. Approx 10 minutes, for 8GB of stuff. I didn't try reading them back.

Since this is a USB3.0 drive, I assume that read sequential should be much higher? Or maybe the multitude of small files was slowing it down? Anyways, it wasn't horrible USB 3.0 speed, but it was entry-level. But for the price, if they're reliable 3-5 years down the road, they are a bargain.

 

[nosirrahx]

I even ran the extreme pro as a windows to go drive, totally functional and far better than a HDD.

I use these for building and testing install images. It is astounding how fast a 3.4GB image drops onto one of these drives. Same goes for installing windows, first reboot is over in a flash.

 

[killster1]

This is (IMO) the best high end price to performance flash drive. I own 3 of them and have benched it against several other 3.1 speed flash drives. It is consistently faster than all of them in both copy to and copy from time.

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-SDCZ880-128G-G46-Extreme-128GB-Solid/dp/B01MU8TZRV

I would be amazed if this WD drive is even 25% as good.

THanks just picked one up/.

 

[killster1]

I needed some USB 3.0 flash drives on short notice, and Walmart was just up the street, so we picked up a 2x 32GB SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 flash drive, for $24.99. If I had enough time to wait for a walmart associate to pull the item, I could have ordered it for in-store pickup, for $19.99 + tax instead. Oh well.

Anyways, write speeds from my VisionTek 120GB GoDrive SSD, with several thousand .jpg pics from a digicam, was between 5-15MB/sec. Approx 10 minutes, for 8GB of stuff. I didn't try reading them back.

Since this is a USB3.0 drive, I assume that read sequential should be much higher? Or maybe the multitude of small files was slowing it down? Anyways, it wasn't horrible USB 3.0 speed, but it was entry-level. But for the price, if they're reliable 3-5 years down the road, they are a bargain.

Lulz you are going to use a drive that reads at 5mb-15mb/s for 5 years!!!! thanks for always giving me some laughs.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Lulz you are going to use a drive that reads at 5mb-15mb/s for 5 years!!!! thanks for always giving me some laughs.

Well, assuming that I only write 8GB at a time to it, from my Mom's digicam card, once a year, that's... 10 minutes a year? Hardly slowing me down, and hardly worth paying an increased price for a 200-300-400MB/sec USB3.0 drive to store her digicam pics.

But hey, if you want to run RAID-0 Samsung 970 Pro NVMe SSDs, to work on spreadsheets or something, be my guest.

Edit: Oh, and reading comprehension FAIL, that was the WRITE speed (5-15MB/sec, ave. about 13MB/sec), for thousands of JPG files. I didn't test the READ speed.

 

[ElFenix]

This is (IMO) the best high end price to performance flash drive. I own 3 of them and have benched it against several other 3.1 speed flash drives. It is consistently faster than all of them in both copy to and copy from time.

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-SDCZ880-128G-G46-Extreme-128GB-Solid/dp/B01MU8TZRV

I would be amazed if this WD drive is even 25% as good.

finally they started putting those in an aluminum housing. i've had a few extremes over the years and ended up cracking the housing or breaking the slider.

 

[nosirrahx]

finally they started putting those in an aluminum housing. i've had a few extremes over the years and ended up cracking the housing or breaking the slider.

Yep, the new ones are pretty solid.