Too bad it's not USB-C
You should try the Lexar Jumpdrive P20. I used to use the Sandisk Extreme USB drives but switched to the P20 (128GB) because they were so much faster (and cheaper) and they feel great.
420MB/s?! Those are some blazing speeds for a Flash drive.![]()
Western Digital today announced the launch of its latest SanDisk-branded product, a 256GB SanDisk Extreme Pro USB 3.1 Solid State Flash Drive, which it says is the fastest, highest capacity USB flash drive the company has ever made.
Designed to provide the speed and reliability of a solid state drive in the form factor of a small USB flash drive, the SanDisk Extreme Pro can reach read speeds of up to 420MB/s and write speeds of up to 380MB/s. According to Western Digital, a full-length 4K movie can be transferred to the drive in less than 15 seconds.
Western Digital plans to begin offering the SanDisk Extreme Pro USB 3.1 Solid State Flash Drive in late January from retailers like Amazon.com and Best Buy. It will be priced at $179.99.![]()
Western Digital is also debuting a new SanDisk-branded A1 microSD card at CES, which offers transfer speeds of up to 95MB/s. With read IOPS (input-output access per second) of 1,500 and write IOPS of 500, it can open apps and process files more quickly. SanDisk's Ultra microSD card with A1 will be available in January of 2017 for $199.99.
Article Link: CES 2017: SanDisk Launches 256GB Flash Drive With Read/Write Transfer Speeds Up to 420MB/s
use it as a small backup drive?Such as why would SanDisk launch a flash drive that requires a dongle to work on USB-C ports? Even considering backward compatibility, for that price they should include a USB-A on one end and USB-C on the other.
I can't think of a reason to buy one at all. I don't transfer files (or groups of files) that large often enough to need one.
Besides, in three years these will be given out as promotional items at trade shows (Your Company Logo Here).
The P20 is an absolute joke when it comes to random writes.
Random Write 512K Sandisk gets about 18 MB/s, P20 gets 1 MB/s
Random Write 4k, Sandisk gets around 10 MB/s, 2000 IOPS, P20 gets 2 IOPS!
Western Digital today announced the launch of its latest SanDisk-branded product, a 256GB SanDisk Extreme Pro USB 3.1 Solid State Flash Drive, which it says is the fastest, highest capacity USB flash drive the company has ever made.
Designed to provide the speed and reliability of a solid state drive in the form factor of a small USB flash drive, the SanDisk Extreme Pro can reach read speeds of up to 420MB/s and write speeds of up to 380MB/s. According to Western Digital, a full-length 4K movie can be transferred to the drive in less than 15 seconds.
Western Digital plans to begin offering the SanDisk Extreme Pro USB 3.1 Solid State Flash Drive in late January from retailers like Amazon.com and Best Buy. It will be priced at $179.99.![]()
Western Digital is also debuting a new SanDisk-branded A1 microSD card at CES, which offers transfer speeds of up to 95MB/s. With read IOPS (input-output access per second) of 1,500 and write IOPS of 500, it can open apps and process files more quickly. SanDisk's Ultra microSD card with A1 will be available in January of 2017 for $199.99.
Article Link: CES 2017: SanDisk Launches 256GB Flash Drive With Read/Write Transfer Speeds Up to 420MB/s
Insert snarky dongle joke here
USB-C is not the future. It's the current. Others are the past.
If Sandisk - and others - release flagship devices like these with old connectors, indeed the dongle trolls will be kept fed.
That doesn't mean one have to throw away everything. I wouldn't. But I also wouldn't buy new devices without.
I'm glad all these things are obvious to some people. I love my Apple set up, but there's no way to apologize for a lot of the stupid sh*t they've been pulling.This is just more proof that Apple jumped the gun (and the shark?) in its move to all USB-C. If USB-C were becoming mainstream, this device would sport a USB-C connector....
The lack of USB-C product announcements at CES is telling. Most USB-C products merely serve to connect current products to your computer. LaCie did release new hard drives, but they have always catered to the Mac crowd, with prices to prove it.
This announcement just goes to show how much the future is still in the future. USB-A will be around for a long time.
No, it's only current for Apple, who is embracing the (far off) future. Everyone else is in the present.
The troll under the bridge is real. Only bleeding-edge Mac users are left out in the cold, and they do not drive as many sales as the other ~99%.
You can't buy devices that don't exist.
i wouldnt necessarily call it "stupid"... just over eager. especially since the machines they're selling with them now, thanks to their complete lack of upgradeability, have nearly zero chance of lasting long enough to see a time when their lack of connectivity isnt considered a problem for many.I'm glad all these things are obvious to some people. I love my Apple set up, but there's no way to apologize for a lot of the stupid sh*t they've been pulling.
With what logic does that make sense, even if I owned a new MacBook Pro (which I wouldn't buy for many reasons having only USB-C being one of them) what percentage of clients do you think has USB-C on their computers? I guarantee you now that if I sent work to clients on USB-C I would be asked to send it again. Just because Apple has a couple of computers with USB-C doesn't mean the publishing industry for instance does. It takes years for magazines to catch up to the latest machines. USB-C is the future, maybe, but it certainly isn't for here and now. I regularly send work both via HD and memory stick with USB-A and I will be doing that for many years as that's what the majority of computers will have, not USB-C. Apple should have realised this and if they wanted the new MacBook Pro to appeal to people using their laptop for creative work should have catered for them and included both USB-A and USB-C ports. That's how you make it easy for people to both upgrade and keep their workflow during a period of change. Now myself and many people will just skip this generation and wait till apple gets their act together.USB-C is not the future. It's the current. Others are the past.
If Sandisk - and others - release flagship devices like these with old connectors, indeed the dongle trolls will be kept fed.
That doesn't mean one have to throw away everything. I wouldn't. But I also wouldn't buy new devices without.
With what logic does that make sense, even if I owned a new MacBook Pro (which I wouldn't buy for many reasons having only USB-C being one of them) what percentage of clients do you think has USB-C on their computers? I guarantee you now that if I sent work to clients on USB-C I would be asked to send it again. Just because Apple has a couple of computers with USB-C doesn't mean the publishing industry for instance does. It takes years for magazines to catch up to the latest machines. USB-C is the future, maybe, but it certainly isn't for here and now. I regularly send work both via HD and memory stick with USB-A and I will be doing that for many years as that's what the majority of computers will have, not USB-C. Apple should have realised this and if they wanted the new MacBook Pro to appeal to people using their laptop for creative work should have catered for them and included both USB-A and USB-C ports. That's how you make it easy for people to both upgrade and keep their workflow during a period of change. Now myself and many people will just skip this generation and wait till apple gets their act together.
I'm on my second USB-C macbook and I loved the new port(s) (first port, now ports) from day one. I 'invested' some (but not all that many) bucks in getting all my cables replaced with USB-C ones. Don't use any dongles except a LAN dongle - a dongle which anyway I needed also for the MBA.With what logic does that make sense, even if I owned a new MacBook Pro (which I wouldn't buy for many reasons having only USB-C being one of them) what percentage of clients do you think has USB-C on their computers? I guarantee you now that if I sent work to clients on USB-C I would be asked to send it again. Just because Apple has a couple of computers with USB-C doesn't mean the publishing industry for instance does. It takes years for magazines to catch up to the latest machines.