paid £1 extra 2 weeks ago, devastated! :smile:

paid £1 extra 2 weeks ago, devastated! :smile:

I have one & so far very happy, it did cost a tad more.

Do these get hot or warm during file transfers? Every time a deal for one of these 'invisible' drives crops up, there are always comments about how hot they get - is this one any better?

I'd be very surprised if it didn't. Why are you concerned about it getting hot? Do you have small children? :confused:

Decent micro stick. Doesn't get quite as hot as Sandisk ones but still get pretty hot. Just don't leave it in the slot all the time and you'll be fine.

This may be a silly question but why don't 128gb micro sd cards get hot and these things do? Don't they operate at similar speeds? If so USB 3.0 wasn't well designed.

Would a similar thing happen with 3.1, USB C type Thunderbolt 3 etc if there were drives of similar size that worked with those?

This one or 128GB Lexar one for the same price?

I always ask about them getting hot because generally speaking electronics + heat = unhappy times.

​Not sure if the transfer speeds are comparable but I think that the Lexar drive has an LED access light which could be off putting for some

USB 3, thunderbolt etc is currently just marketing hot air with respect to thumb drives IMO. Show me the USB flash drive that tops out at even half of the USB 2 limit.

Needs to be under £20 for it to be a good deal....................

Because if I get one, it'll be plugged-into my car for months/years at a time. If there's a risk of it damaging itself or my car, then it's not what I'm looking for.

Ah. I see. I haven't heard of a USB stick getting so hot that it would cause damage, but it must be possible. I would think you would be safe with a drive from a company as large as Samsung.

I've been looking at reviews on Amazon and there's a 4-star review that states: "The one main issue is that it gets very hot when transferring a lot of files. I plugged it into a USB3 hub connected to my PC and left if transferring about 10GB of files using Free File Sync. When it finished the USB drive was too hot to touch, I had to use a cloth to remove it from the hub." which, if true, can't be healthy. The product's description mentions: "Temperature-proof - Operating temperature from 0C to 60C", so there must be a limit to how hot the drive can safely operate at, but it's not clear what happens beyond that - does it scale transfer speeds back until the temperature subsides, or does it just carry on until it fails?

they only get hot if you leave them in for LONG periods of time...in normal use they don't get hot at all.

The reason these got hot and an SD card doesn't is that the SD card doesn't have a large amount of metal in its build that retains heat.

My Sandisk reached a temp of 50 degrees c when I copied 8gb of data to in 5 minutes over USB3. Yes it felt hot, but not enough to burn/hurt. I believe hdd's idle at 50/55 degrees anyway so I can't see this causing any damage?

surely they only get hot when reading / writing to them?
Was thinking about one of these for my laptop that only has a 128GB ssd.
My preference would be to leave it attached and use it for occasional storage.
If they run constantly hot they must also be using too much battery power all the time?
Wierd...

I have one of these, cheap and reads fairly fast, write speeds aren't very good though at 30-40 mbps. Good for the price.

Metal does not retain heat, it conducts heat, which means there is something in the drive heating up and the metal is conducting the heat away. The metal is not the cause and forms a a large part of the cure.

WOAH 128GB THAT SMALL! I bought my 1GB stick for £20 back in the day. Could you leave this in your laptop forever?

I don't have this exact one, but I have the same type that has been in my laptop for about 6 months now and there hasn't been any problem.

Somewhat uninformed - usb 2 transfer rate maxes out at circa 30mb/s after allowing for overheads etc. There are a lot of sticks faster than that for reading though not many for writes. One of the best Sandisk extreme 64gb will give over 250mbs read and 150-190 write on a USB 3 port - that is what I get real world not just the marketing fluff

Because not all laptops have a micro sd card slot. But literally 99% of laptops have 1 USB slot.

You can buy USB drives with microsd card slots but yes I know that's not the same thing.

Bought one a few months back and I leave it in my Macbook Air all the time. Have had no problem with it whatsoever.

It's small enough so it doesn't stick out and bang things when moving your laptop around.

Regarding the issue with it getting hot, if you're using it transferring files, watching movies off it etc, of course it will get hot. I've never had a issue with it getting hot to the point where it stops working or effected my laptop.

I have one of these I use with my shield TV box, I use it as consolidated storage so the OS doesn't get bogged down by "not enough space" messages etc. Haven't had a problem with it and the shield TV gets left on for hours on end.

Really?

Rather it needs to be under £20 to be the best deal of the year.

I have the sandisk extreme 32gb and never got anything like that figure, though it is faster than any other USB drive I have. If I get the chance I'll give it a try on USB 2 and USB 3 ports on the same computer just for the fun of it.

There that price on amazon anyway thats no deal

What price at amazon sorry ..?

Mackbook Air is what keeps ir cooler. It just has to be! :laughing:

Amazon's got them at £24.99 if you're at all interested

Thanks OP. Have ordered from mymemory in the past with no problems at all (64GB USB), just checked out with paypal without registering. Received quickly and has worked flawlessly for months at a pretty fast speed. This price is a no brainer so snapped one up. Unfortunately the reviewers don't seem to benchmark the speed for other potential purchasers, so that's the first thing I'll do when it arrives. Heat :smiley:

I would like to able to plug this into my car stereo's usb & play music from it, as it would be very neat rather than another wire as I already have the phone & camera plugged in in the car, would it be possible to put a player on there with your music files ? Please enlighten the ignorant, many thanks, Heat added :wink:

Be brave

Great quality usb

If you put some MP3 music files onto one of these flash drives, your stereo should be able to play the tracks from it without any extra equipment. You probably have a flash drive somewhere already, so put some music files on there and try it on your stereo, to check it does actually work, before spending any money :wink:

Arrived today and here's the benchmark. I'm using USB 2.0, so not the fastest set up.



Guess 130MB/s only applies if you're on USB 3.0, using a PC with go faster stripes :smiley:

that looks slow for usb2.... ?

I thought so too, maybe someone else will do a benchmark to compare.

mine should arrive today or tomorrow... I will test in both when it does :man:

http://usbflashspeed.com/144241 = USB3 slot
http://usbflashspeed.com/144242 = USB2 slot
mine runs cool and only gets luke warm when in use...
try this tool?

How is yours soo fast?

That's not fast it's normal :smirk:
Try the tool I used. I think crystaldisk may be optimised for proper disks and not USB.
Worth a go.....

I have one and think it is great value for the money, also it doesn't stick out as much as my memory card adapter in my lenovo yoga 300. As for write speed I'm only copying movies across from other sources and have found while it runs I can do other things rather than time the data transfer!