Joined on 05/20/02
Would be 5 stars with a reasonable length cable
Pros: USB 3 speeds. Able to power External Hard Drives. Charging Port. 4 Ports. Reasonably Small Footprint. Sturdy construction. Contrary to one reviewers comments, it does use a standard cable. It's obvious that James M. is overstating his Tech Knowledge as it is a standard USB 3.0 Micro B Cable that anyone with his "supposed" tech level would know. I used the Coboc CY-U3-AMicBMM-6-BK 6 ft. USB 3.0 A Male to Micro B Male Cable M-M item number N82E16812422985 purchased from Newegg for under $5 shipped that worked perfectly. That same cable fits all of my Western Digital USB 3.0 External Hard Drives so I have no idea what James' problem is.
Cons: The supplied 18" cable is way too short to be of any use, but I knew that when I ordered it. It simply isn't long enough to plug into a case and reach the desk. I connected mine with a 6 foot USB 3.0 Micro B cable and it works perfectly. See above Pros for specifics on that cable.
Overall Review: I will be ordering a couple more of these for other computers shortly. I've had this one for 2 months and used it enough to know that it will get the job done for me.
Cheap Poor Quality Plastic Drive that should be rated MINUS TEN Eggs.
Pros: Before the casing breaks (and it will) the Read and Write speeds are fine. But that is before the case breaks
Cons: Cheaply made plastic case that breaks and causing the drive to short out in the USB port. Once this starts happening the drive causes the computer to reboot when you plug it in. I've purchased a dozen of these drives in various sizes and all but two have done this. The two that haven't have survived as I rarely use them.
Overall Review: I used to trust Sandisk to manufacture quality flash drives. Unfortunately that time has passed. Not sure if it's worth it to warranty them as they'll just replace them with more cheap plastic drives that will break after a few uses.
Sorta works, just not well.
Pros: Fairly easy to install drive in enclosure if you have small fingers and yes, it does actually work (to some extent).
Cons: Slower than molasses in January in Minnesota. Even using a Gen 4 NVME drive that exceeds 7000 MBps and plugged into an X570 motherboard's USB 3.2 10 Gbps port it would barely reach 700 MB/s speeds read, and 400 write. Sorry, but that just doesn't cut it.
Overall Review: I'm only keeping it as it will at least be somewhat useful to clone NBMe drives with and it's too much hassle to attempt returning it to Newegg with their lousy track record for returns these days.
Works Well
Pros: I have used multiple sets of these on numerous motherboards. I turned on XMP and it runs completely stable at it's full rated speed and timings. I have one set that has been running for a year and a half that way.
Cons: The only issue I have had with these were with an AsRock B550 Steel Legend which didn't set the correct VCore with earlier BIOS. I had to manually set the VCore to the correct 1.35v for it to work on that board. This is a well known and documented issue with the motherboard BIOS, not the Ram itself so no Eggs were removed. I only mention it so users are aware of the issue with that board and early BIOS and update to a newer BIOS that corrected the problem. I don't know which BIOS fixed it for sure as I went from 1.30 (which had the issue) to 1.80 (which didn't) and ran fine).
Overall Review: I am extremely pleased with these and would definitely purchase them again for future AMD Ryzen builds. I just wish AMD had done a better job with wiring the ram slots on AM4 motherboards. Instead of using the 2nd and 4th slots for a 2 stick setup which can cause some clearance issues for tower coolers, they should have used 1st and 3rd slots.
Get's 1 Egg because Newegg won't go any lower
Pros: Lot's of space to store files if you have a fey days to write them to the drive.
Cons: I've had numerous 16 and 32 gig versions of this drive that have worked quite well so I decided to try the 128 gig. BIG Mistake. It will write about 20 to 40 megs then stop for up to a minute, write another 20 to 40 megs then stop for another minute or two. It continues this behaviour until all of the data is written. Files that I have that takes 5 to 10 seconds to write on my 32 gig versions of these drives can take 15 or more minutes on these. I've tried reformatting them with Fat32, ExFat, and NTFS numerous times, both Quick format and Full Format. Tried formatting on numerous systems that have USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports that have been verified as working properly. Used Windows 10 Format, HPUSB Format Utility, MiniTook Partition Wizard, and a couple of other tools to format them so they worked corectly, but no dice. Main system is X570 board and secondary system is B550. Both fully support the full write speed of these drives. Also tried on numerous Intel systems with USB 3.1 or 3.2 Gen 1 or Gen 2 ports with same results. Have used every utility that I can find to check, format, test, and benchmark the drives but the 128 gig versions are just unusable.
Overall Review: Essentially what good is a drive that takes hours to write files to. I have USB 2.0 drives that write faster than these things can.
Not Worth It
Pros: I was able to get a full refund and the seller paid for return shipping so I'm only out the time I spent on it.
Cons: Only works with Android and IOS. Requires old, outdated, and insecure plugins to be used with Windows which is the primary device I wanted to use it with. MicroSD card doesn't work (tried it in multiple devices). Video is extremely choppy. Overall not a quality product.
Overall Review: I would have given this a MINUS Egg Rating if that was possible, so I gave it the lowest rating allowed.
Good Customer Service
While the camera they shipped was defective and not really a quality product (they don't make the product, they just sell it) the seller made things right. They refunded my money and sent me a pre-paid return label. The latter part was a key component in my favorable review. Due to the Christmas sale price (the only reason I made the purchase in the first place) it would have cost about 75% of the purchase price to return it. Service like that needs to be norm rather than the exception. My only complaint with the seller is that they shipped the product in a non-padded envelope to ship. Considering the item comes in a flimsy retail box I don't feel that it was appropriately packaged for shipping. All in all I would have no problem purchasing from them in the future if they had a product I wanted at the right price.