High-capacity key, but how slow is it?
This key does exactly what it says:
- 512 GB of data (so much data in such a small volume is impressive)
- USB 3 connection
- Peak read speed of over 200 MB/s and write speed of over 150 MB/s
But the big drawback is that you generally use a drive like this to store large files or lots of data, and after a few seconds of transfer (read or write) the data rate plummets to 10MB/s or even 3MB/s... so you need to be patient.
Admittedly, this respects the specifications (which only concern the theoretical throughput of USB 3 connectivity) but it's unusable in practice (even if it doesn't need to have the same performance as an external SSD, it would be nice if it could do better than an external HDD with real disks running ... 80MB/s in general)
