INLAND Micro Center Super Speed 256GB Type-C USB 3.0/USB 3.1 Gen 1 Mini Flash Drive Memory Stick Thumb Drive (Single Pack)

Package of two that has nice capacity, more than adequate write speed, dependable. Very nice product.

I always benchmark my flash drives and SD cards to avoid any unwanted surprises as none of them advertise their write speeds for good reason (because they usually suck). This one though is also a surprise but with its sustained sequential write speed of over 100 MB/s it is incredibly fast for an inexpensive thumb drive. I even increased the test size from my usual 4GiB to 16GiB and there was negligible drop in performance. Micro Center only advertises this drive with "Up to 100MBps Read/ 30MBps Write Speed" on their website.

Not the speediest, not the slowest. Adequate USB-C type flash drive. Lack of the unnecessary additional USB A type connector was a plus, IMO. Note: individual units do not survive being washed and dried in the pocket of a pair of pants.

Just for fun I built a 512GB mirrored drive for my Macbook Pro. I removed the plastic (voiding the warranty) and stuck a heatsink on them. I covered the electronics on the other side with an insulator just because, and ta-da! A small, removable, fast, (mirrored) drive that perfectly matches the two USB-C ports on the right side of my Mac. I have a Seagate NAS, and numerous external SSDs, so is this a great idea? Maybe? Still, it functions flawlessly, it’s fast, and was a fun experiment.

I had a spare 2.5” 512Gb hard drive that I pulled from my 2012 laptop that I used to walk around with in a seagate enclosure to copy work to; it had this cable and it took a long time to copy over date. Recently upgraded my main rig to NVMe and SSDs and I was thinking of a way to have really portable, fast on-the-go storage. Bought a Samsung 256Gb and wanted something bigger that wouldn’t be too expensive. Landed on this. Relative to my old portable mechanical hard drive, this is way faster and way more portable. Definitely recommend the biggest option you can get as it’s worth it. Got it for $29 and change before taxes.

Micro center was my go to when I lived near one for their in house branded stuff and this is still working great over a year later.

I just received this drive last night. I bought this drive for its size and price to put some data on for travel, on a vacation that I am going on. I researched various drives and found this drive. It claims that it is USB-C 3.1, 256GB and Made In Taiwan, which are all good signs. The drive is nice, small and light. The USB-C connector came slightly bent, so it sticks out of my computer at an angle. This USB-C drive can only be plugged in 1 way!!! I tried this on multiple computers. If you flip the drive over and insert (which you can do with USB-C), you will get an error that the drive can't be recognized (see picture). I went to copy some data which is various PDF files and some video files, and the copy speed is the slowest I have seen in decades! You can copy to a USB 2.0 spinning drive faster than this thumb drive that is supposed to be 3.1. I did try to run a speed test on it to post here but 3/4 of the way through the test, I got an error that it lost connection to the drive for some odd reason. I know that this drive was not expensive, but it wouldn't be worth a dollar if it was sold at the dollar tree. Complete junk and a waste of time. Read/Write speeds comparable to a floppy. Useless USB-C connector because it still can only be plugged in one way. I did try on multiple computers to verify, it is junk. I'm going to return it. I hope this helps someone from going through the same trouble.

I have a number of these microcenter flash drives and they work well and pretty durable. The fan boys on YouTube think you're an inferior species for using microcenter flash drives, but the fan boys get sponsorship. The speed thing becomes relevant if you're connecting high end devices like thunderbolt, but to copy files this is good enough.