Silicon Power 32GB Blaze B30 USB 3.0 Flash Drive (SP032GBUF3B30V1K)

Pros: Reasonably inexpensive drive that maintains a very high read & write speeds even after it's been mostly filled (many flash drives only provide high write speeds when empty and slow as they fill, esp. noticeable after 50%). I've got mine 80% full and it's still fairly quick when connected at USB 3 (USB 2 is still slow as molasses of course).

Cons: Just bought this drive as a replacement for an older B30 that got damaged after a lanyard attached to it got yanked (the bent drive still works, but I don't expect it to keep working). The new B30 is 115GB, while the old B30 is 117GB, so they've taken 2GB away from this "128GB" drive. I wrote 0's to the first few sectors of the block device, just in case it was a weird partition issue, but after re-partitioning it was still 115GB.

Overall Review: Nobody remembers when drives were measured in base2, everyone thinks base10 is how its always been. So when manufacturers play games with capacities everyone thinks this is normal and won't call them on it.

Pros: lots of storage, got it for free with the Samsung 850 EVO bundle

Cons: failed within 3 days of use. PC would not recognize the USB anymore.

Overall Review: Wanted to use as a 3rd backup for photos during a trip. Failed before I could actually use it.

Pros: Swiveling metal guard acts as a heat sink, LED is not too bright, fastish contiguous USB3 reads/writes with NTFS. Read speeds (contig blocks); 180 MB/s Write speeds (contig blocks): 50-60 MB/s Bigger than 100GB

Cons: Swiveling metal guard is required to act as a heat sink - very slow writing when writing many small files (like MP3s): 1-3 MB/s, even when NTFS format. Size "128GB" is exaggerated. Usable size after formatting is closer to 108GB - this is a larger difference than accounted for by the "1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes" convention. Gets very hot when bricked - OS keeps trying to read until device is removed from USB port (or recovery tool is run)

Overall Review: UFD_Recover_Tool is a must have - while reformatting for NTFS, was eventually told "couldn't write to device" and ended up with a very hot brick. After reading comments here, went to Silicon Power's site and downloaded the recovery tool. Tool worked, recovered USB device, was able to format / reformat / read / write.

Pros: Fast Bootable Works as expected

Cons: None so far

Pros: Unlike the most negative review, my drive is fairly fast. Around 30 megabytes per second write in USB 3 & 20 in USB 2. Copying files over in USB 3 topped out at the transfer speed of my hard drive, so can't complain there.

Cons: None for me. Shipping is a bit slow, but thanks to other reviewers I bought this drive knowing that.

Overall Review: I'm just waiting to see how long this drive lasts, but so far so good.

Pros: - Good price - Sleek design

Cons: - Speed not as fast as expected - Stopped working after one week - Overheats easily during light usage

Overall Review: Bought this when it was on sale for $15. At that price I would say this product has an above average design. There is no cap so you won't have to worry about losing it. The surface is well polished and it does look fairly nice compared to the plastic casings on most flash drives at this price point. There is also a hole on it so you can hook it onto your keychain easily. However, when it comes to performance, I wasn't very impressed by it. Running crystaldiskmark shows about 90 read and 40 write (USB3). Transferring actual files is a nightmare. My 3GB project took 30 minutes to transfer and the drive would disconnect from the OS on its own randomly from time to time. I left the flash drive plugged into my hard drive for about 5 hours (it was idle most of the time) and when i tried to unplug it the temperature on the flash drive was more than uncomfortably hot. And that was my experience on the first day of receiving the unit. After a few days the drive just stopped working. It won't be recognized on my computers - on windows it would show a 200mb usable partition and a 63gb unusable partition, and if i try to do anything with it in the disk manager, it just won't let me by throwing me random errors. On mac the drive is found under disk utility but the partition remains unmounted. When i tried to verify/repair/partition/format, it would just say "unable to unmount" every time. Interestingly the drive would still overheat even though it isn't being used. I think (and hope) the majority of this product out there works better than the one I received, so this might be 1/10000 of the defective ones; but I wanted to let everyone know that the quality control on this product might not be the best and it is possible that you will receive a bad one.

Pros: Quick when functioning. Now it is read only which is not useful or fixable.

Cons: Drive is read only after 6 months. Silicon Power has an app to fix drives but it does not work for me.

Pros: - Crystal Disk Mark 3.03x64 Read 123.4 / Write 41.27 as last checked....which is about what I expected. - Solid construction with features as noted by other reviewers - Lifetime limited warranty

Cons: Nothing noted.

Overall Review: I noticed that Silicon Power does have a premium USB 3.0 flash drive line with higher speeds....but it is suitably priced at higher prices. The Blaze B30 USB 3.0 flash drive may not be the fastest flash drive available, but the performance for the price paid is a solid value!