



Silicon Power (SP) Blaze B30 is a USB 3.0 flash drive with 360 degree swivel design, which allows you to carry it without annoying cap-loss problems. With the geometric diamond-cut pattern and stainless metal structure, Blaze B30 offers a sleek jewelry-like and practical look. It is also built with an LED indicator, indicating the data transfer status during use. SP B30 is backed by a lifetime warranty, and comes with SP Widget application software which provides seven major back up and Recuva recovery tools.
Blaze B30 incorporates the 360 degree cap-less swivel design with a stainless metal structure. This allows users to use and store with just a thumb push, and eliminates annoying cap-loss problems.
To enhance the durability of the swivel axis, Blaze B30 employs a Four-Way Position Rotation Technology, which can greatly avoid any damage or debris on the USB connector from a loose axis.
Outstanding read/write speed is coupled with the latest USB 3.0 interface, which features a 5Gb/s bandwidth, which is 10x the bandwidth of a USB 2.0 interface. It saves users precious time backing up to and from the hard drive when transferring mass data files.
Blaze B30 is compatible with Windows and Mac, allowing you to share files between different platforms.
What if you accidentally deleted an important file or lost something important when your computer crashed? Blaze B30 offers an SP Rescue software for free download to bring back your deleted files or photos.
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.