I formatted this deeply so as to stress it. No failure in that regard. (Did have a PNY USB stick fail after I formatted it out of the box, so thats why I always try to stress new storage with a deep format when I get it.) The loop is weak plastic, so unlike the Samsung competition.

It is too small. I attached a lanyard to keep it from being lost. Also, there is no cap to the USB. It is unprotected. It is slow. Copying 1.4GB of info took about 4 minutes.

The packaging is nice and the drives are a good size for use / transport. The read speed is good but the write speed is only ~ 5mb/s. Good for light everyday use or if you have data / files that are read (movies etc...).

I ordered this flash drive to transfer on it all the files and documents that were cluttering my Mac desktop. The goal was to de-clog my desktop yet have my files easily accessible on an external, cordless storage device by leaving it permanently plugged in one of my 2.0 USB ports.

I don't normally publish IOPS figures because merely stating those figures is meaningless without being able to control the size of the packets and latencies involved during the measuring.

Still putting it through the wringer, but this Ultra Flair is standing up pretty well to the gamut of small file transfers and running a Windows Vista VM; According to Crystal Benchmark, this flash drive - when plugged into a USB 3.0 port with no other USB devices being used - is capable of...

Less than 2 minutes into reformatting the drive for the first time before a benchmark, this Ultra Flair thermal throttled and disconnected; The metal cover is almost too hot to touch (think metal teaspoon in a freshly brewed cup of coffee) and it needs a minute taped to a used can of compressed air...

If you got a PC then there's a high chance you got some form of portable memory device, be that a pen drive, memory stick, SD card …. I have a few with this on being one of the smaller ones. Costing me less than ￡10. I have this 4GB version, plus a 16GB type too. With other GB sizes available.

"enough storage size; "nice size

"no protection for connector end

A fast read/write memory stick, very competitively priced. It was easy to use with excellent storage capacity. Much more discreet than the portable drive.

What is good about this product is that its literally running in seconds. Im using it for transfer heavy-weight movies and this particular stick is the fastest ever.

I ordered this based on its size. I was hoping to transfer files quickly, but when it takes 29 minutes just to write 6.6Gig it is very frustrating. It is a little quicker to read, but not much. Save your money and buy something more expensive and ultimately faster.

Works great and is fast. It becomes very hot, but I had a 64GB USB that becomes very hot too and I have never had any issues with it. My guess is that it is normal, it has to emit heat somehow... Spec should specify how much heat these devices emit, just so we know what to expect.