Cant find much info on this, but seems a reasonable price nevertheless.
Edit, could also be the same as the TDK branded ones. I believe both brands have now winded down their consumer business.
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dwl99
8 Oct 163#3
Genuine question - why would anyone want this instead of a USB drive of the same capacity?
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vassy4u
8 Oct 161#1
Heat added OP
Silhouette
8 Oct 16#2
Seems well priced. Heat
dwl99
8 Oct 163#3
Genuine question - why would anyone want this instead of a USB drive of the same capacity?
deanwatson842 to dwl99
8 Oct 16#4
speed. the cheaper 128gb pen drives are slow at writing data (e.g. 20MBps) an SSD via usb 3 could achieve 200MBps read and write if not more (limited by the speed of the ssd). an equivalent quick pen drive is normally much more expensive
B_T
8 Oct 16#5
Hot.
Are they compatible with USB 2?
gazdoubleu to B_T
8 Oct 16#6
Yeah but would slow down performance considerably
Need, HUKD and decisions??? tut tut, way too sensible a comment :laughing:
quidstretchy
8 Oct 162#9
£31 will buy you a very fast 128GB USB3 stick so unless you need something that you can rest your coffee cup on too I don't see the value in this.
But if enough people do then I'll start putting USB sticks in shoe boxes and calling them "External SSDs" too
gazdoubleu to quidstretchy
8 Oct 16#13
More than just speed, quality of the flash memory is better, controller is better, better error protection. I bought to store my music on as I don't want it to disappear in a flash (pun intended) and also want it to be transportable.
tleecher06
8 Oct 16#10
OOS
tleecher06
8 Oct 16#11
OOS
quidstretchy
8 Oct 16#12
That comes as a blow.
Gkains
8 Oct 16#14
Even just for speed, an SSD with a proper controller is going to score a lot more IOPS than flash drive unless the flash drive also uses an SSD controller (like the Mushkin Ventura Ultra does - although that uses Sandforce controller which makes me weary).
Sure for storing big files like videos IOPS barely makes much difference but if you want to run an operating system from it, IOPS will make a huge difference.
vassy4u
8 Oct 16#15
item is oos
OldEngine
8 Oct 16#16
Missed it :disappointed: Probably a good thing though.
GwanGy
8 Oct 16#17
iF You want to store lots of small files eg mp3's something like this will destroy a std flash drive. They will often slow down to less than 10Mb/s whereas this will be far faster. Just in general much faster.
ICTHUS to GwanGy
14 Oct 16#22
Sorry, I don't agree. The USB 3.0 Pen drive will be faster and handle small files better. But there won't be much in it speed wise as they are both similar technologies. Just that the interface on this SSD is a little slower in some circumstances. And it depends on buying a good quality Pen drive.
veedubjai
8 Oct 16#18
Amazon wants £109.07 :confused:
wishihadadonkey
14 Oct 16#19
Back in stock
rossmclean
14 Oct 16#20
speed on a 128 BG drive?
I'm in the this product makes no sense camp! also I can't recalled the last time a USB drive failed on me, anyway its a back up right?
ICTHUS
14 Oct 16#21
I would just add, Buy a good USB Pen drive of the same capacity.
It's smaller and faster. This is a good deal price wise, but makes no sense practically.
SFconvert
14 Oct 16#23
Is this basically a ssd in a usb caddy? If so can it be removed. I'm thinking it could make a good swap for a laptop hard drive and you can use the caddy?
halap3n0 to SFconvert
14 Oct 16#24
Was thinking exactly the same thing. Looks like it to me.
GwanGy
15 Oct 16#25
Most usb flash drives use the lowest quality flash, and basic controllers . I would never use a flash drive for long term storage, but ymmv. Even the best seem to be fairly slow at writes. I intend to buy only good quality usb drives in future.
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Edit, could also be the same as the TDK branded ones. I believe both brands have now winded down their consumer business.
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Are they compatible with USB 2?
But if enough people do then I'll start putting USB sticks in shoe boxes and calling them "External SSDs" too
Sure for storing big files like videos IOPS barely makes much difference but if you want to run an operating system from it, IOPS will make a huge difference.
I'm in the this product makes no sense camp! also I can't recalled the last time a USB drive failed on me, anyway its a back up right?
It's smaller and faster. This is a good deal price wise, but makes no sense practically.