What flash drives do you put your trust in for moving data around that aren't the slow kind?
>>106751615got some old evtran and jeyi m.2 enclosures and a local rebrand of chinese stick using direct uasp-to-flash controller.never had any issues with either.got rid of kingston though, the slider sucked.
>>106751615Some black 8 GB Transcend I found in a puddle around 6 years ago.
>>106751615Full metal Kingston Data Travellers or SanDisks. I had the same metal Kingston DT as key ring for years. Now I'm trying a chink one lol.
>pull out usb flash drive every few years>flash installer image for os I want to try>install os>throw drive back into the junk drawer to be used again in a few yearspretty much the only use for these
>>106751615I got a crucial X9 for a hundred bucks and still use my ancient keychain kingston one more often
>>106751615I've been using one chinkshit drive as a scratchpad for transcoding terabytes worth of podcasts and torrents and it refuses to die, it has outlasted all other usbs and my wd black hdd by like 4 years now. It's completely random
>>106752009once you figure out pxe booting you'll rarely if ever want to buy one again i broke my addiction to flash drives in 2014-ish, pretty sure I still have a few from that era
>>106751615>flash drivesThose are "USB sticks" you savage
$5 4TB samsung from aliexpress
both my samsung USB 3.1 flash drive and my t7 shield SSD have massive write issues, googling it finds many people with the same problemi will be avoiding samsung in the future
post benchmarksthis is a samsung fit plus
