If you aren't a penny pincher and need the best volume per capacity, you should consider going with an M.2 SATA SSD and a corresponding all in on case that makes it look like a modestly oversized USB stick. I'm currently waiting on the case/adapter from China for 7€ and am going to buy either a 250GB range SSD or a 1TB SSD and replace my 500GB notebook one. Price/GB isn't outlandishly different at those capacities and it gets better the larger they are.
I've done that with a 120GB mSATA before and it worked rather well as a fast thumb drive. The connector was obviously on a cable so the increased size didn't cause a problem by blocking nearby ports. I did go through a couple of cables, but I blame that stupid USB 3.0 connector. Those were always a bit iffy.
Not sure that this is even newsworthy. The lack of information about the controller and NAND it is using makes this completely uninteresting. There are quite a few USB drives that offer this type of performance. Now a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Corsair Voyager GTX would be interesting, though. That or an NVMe compatible USB 3.1 Gen 2 Silverstone USB enclosure with a slide-out connector.
Yeah, Corsair GTX is still the king of fast true pen drives... a gen 2 (10Gbs) or even TB3 (40Gbs) version of it (with NVMe inside) would the next step forward
I thought I was in a time warp... I bought a UE700 (not Pro) with an identical chassis back in 2013 (same little pleather strap and all), and looking back at the specs it wasn't even *that* much slower given the 5 year gap (200MB/s read and 95MB/s write)...
Not sure I see the point of these mid-sized drives these days, I tend to gravitate towards the tiniest keychain type drives or something the size of an M.2 that can hit 500/500-ish like SanDisk's Extreme Portable USB-C.
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nicolaim - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
"can be slided in and out"That should be "slid"
DanNeely - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
And of course no mention of the speeds of the smaller capacity models that will be sold in multiple orders of magnitude larger quantities.Death666Angel - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
If you aren't a penny pincher and need the best volume per capacity, you should consider going with an M.2 SATA SSD and a corresponding all in on case that makes it look like a modestly oversized USB stick. I'm currently waiting on the case/adapter from China for 7€ and am going to buy either a 250GB range SSD or a 1TB SSD and replace my 500GB notebook one. Price/GB isn't outlandishly different at those capacities and it gets better the larger they are.PeachNCream - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
I've done that with a 120GB mSATA before and it worked rather well as a fast thumb drive. The connector was obviously on a cable so the increased size didn't cause a problem by blocking nearby ports. I did go through a couple of cables, but I blame that stupid USB 3.0 connector. Those were always a bit iffy.CrazyElf - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
The issue is the case. There needs to be a good M.2 to USB case out there that can withstand abuse and use the USB 3.1 bus to its speed limits.SquarePeg - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - link
I like this one as it only accepts M.2 2242 SATA but they do sell a larger 2280 model. It's very small and light.https://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-Technology-Encl...
oRAirwolf - Friday, December 14, 2018 - link
Not sure that this is even newsworthy. The lack of information about the controller and NAND it is using makes this completely uninteresting. There are quite a few USB drives that offer this type of performance. Now a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Corsair Voyager GTX would be interesting, though. That or an NVMe compatible USB 3.1 Gen 2 Silverstone USB enclosure with a slide-out connector.digiguy - Friday, December 14, 2018 - link
Yeah, Corsair GTX is still the king of fast true pen drives... a gen 2 (10Gbs) or even TB3 (40Gbs) version of it (with NVMe inside) would the next step forwardImpulses - Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - link
I thought I was in a time warp... I bought a UE700 (not Pro) with an identical chassis back in 2013 (same little pleather strap and all), and looking back at the specs it wasn't even *that* much slower given the 5 year gap (200MB/s read and 95MB/s write)...Not sure I see the point of these mid-sized drives these days, I tend to gravitate towards the tiniest keychain type drives or something the size of an M.2 that can hit 500/500-ish like SanDisk's Extreme Portable USB-C.