Transcend JetFlash 780 8GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Model TS8GJF780

Pros: Look

Cons: Everything, just got them and plugged into my ASUS P8Z77-V deluxe and they don't work. I want to use them as a boot disk for Windows 8 and they just don't work. I don't want to waste my time sending them back. I think that the package is in the trash. These suck. beware. stick with patriot XT

Other Thoughts: Very, very disappointed

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Pros: -Coupled with Asus USB 3.0 Boost hit up to 60 Mb/s on WRITE, and does average around advertised 20 Mb/s.

-Looks good.

-Nice build quality.

Cons: -Costly.

Pros: Looks great, USB 3.0 speed, good price

Cons: The cap completely detaches from the drive when taken off and there is no alternate place to attach it. Keep an eye on that thing!

Other Thoughts: Yet to have a problem that might make me regret my purchase. Good buy!

Pros: Fast, reasonably priced

Cons: It's kind of large, removable cap could be lost

Other Thoughts: I haven't tried this out on USB 3.0 yet, but I can tell a difference with USB 2.0.

Pros: Boots fast and works as almost advertised. Write Speeds are 20MB/s however read was around 85-90MB/s consistently.

Cons: I wish it would write faster but it did advertise 20MB/s so I cant complain.

Other Thoughts: wish it had a lanyard / tie / string thingy lol

Pros: It works, bought this to copy my OS recovery partition. It does just that.

Cons: None

Pros: Used this little guy to format Windows 7 to it so that I could install the OS to my new build and it got the job done. I tested it for the full, advertised speeds on both read and write. Even plugging it into a USB 2.0 port can show you it uses true USB 3.0 speeds, so I'm not sure why one of the other guys reviewing it said it was so slow. Perhaps he got a defective unit.

Cons: None.

Pros: it works; pretty fast for a thumbdrive

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Just as a point of reference, just using dd to write directly to this flash drive over USB 3, I'm seeing about 94 MB/s read and 18 MB/s write performance.

Note that the drive performs *much* more slowly on USB 2.

Pros: Very fast drives on my macbook pro. Backups of my work files are amazingly fast now compared to my old thumbdrives.

Cons: Black is kinda hard to see in bags and backpacks. Wish there were other colors to choose from.

Other Thoughts: Buy these drives, you wont be disappointed.

Pros: Good read performance (60-80MB/s avg), stylish, nice finish, and light. Compatible with OS X (10.8), and Windows 7 (x64) as boot volumes. So far, reliable.

Cons: Write performance is not good at all - Almost USB 2.0 speed. Has a separate cap with no way to attach to unit making it easy to loose. There is no place to easily add to a key ring - it only has a small hole in the corner suitable for a thread.

Other Thoughts: Overall a decent and compatible memory stick. However it lacks write performance and (around 15-20MB/s average). This is as advertised so I can't really ding it for that. The lack of a key ring and or simply connection to hold the cap makes it pretty easy to loose. You should definitely use some sort of encryption with this baby and it doesn't come with any software to do that. While it looks like a solid carbon fiber unit, it is actually extremely light and cheap plastic in feel. I don't mind the fact that it's super light but it does feel like to will break easily.

It worked fine as a USB boot volume for OS X and Windows install and recovery.

For the price, and the read performance, this is a good unit.