Integral 2-Pack 128GB USB Memory 2.0 Flash Drives Courier Blue

It's hard to get hold 128GB USB sticks at present, so I was worried that these would be rubbish, given their affordable price. They are constructed much like any regular USB stick, they're not exceptionally tough or anything - but built well enough. When I connected them to my laptop I checked them with GNU Parted and discovered the partitions weren't aligned on them, hence data transfer rates would be a little slow. I deleted their partition tables and made a new table with a single partition spanning as much of each disk as I could, but aligned correctly. I then formatted them with the EXT2 filesystem. USB performance on Linux is slow for this type of storage, and the EXT2 filesystem makes this slower still; however performance was perfectly acceptable on these. I backed up a bunch of data to them and verified it all, and it seems to be fine. The first stick wrote the data very quickly, and it was done by the time I came back to my computer a few hours later. The second stick wrote the data pitifully slowly, at around about 1MiB/second; however readback speeds were completely acceptable. I put this down to potentially me messing up somewhere when specifying the partition or filesystem options. All in all decent USB sticks - and if you're a Windows user, you'll probably find they're very quick.

I've had this Integral 128GB USB 2.0 flash drive for a few years now, and it’s been perfect—no issues whatsoever! The storage capacity is great for keeping documents, photos, and backups, and even though it’s USB 2.0, the transfer speeds are still decent for everyday use. It’s sturdy, well-made, and super reliable, which is exactly what you want in a flash drive. I’ve used it regularly, and it’s never let me down. If you need a dependable and affordable USB stick with plenty of space, this one is a solid choice. Highly recommend!

I knew what I was getting in for at the price: £10 for a 128 gig flash drive is a steal. Just be aware that it does come with its caveats, and they may make it unsuitable for some uses. TLDR at the bottom of the review. First thing I did when the drive arrived was start a full write test using h2testw. This tool will write data to the entire reported capacity of the drive and then read it back to verify that it works as intended. At the cheap price I was sceptical, as a lot of cheap USB drives are modified to pretend that they're higher capacity than they actually are. This, I am pleased to say, is not one of those. However, the test did highlight just how slow the drive actually is, clocking in at just under 12 and a half hours to fill the drive and read the data back off it. This was approximately 10 and a half hours to write, reporting an average speed of 3.16Mbytes a second, and 2 hours to read, with an average speed of 16.2Mbytes a second. My use for this drive is data archival, which took a considerable length of time to copy onto it, but I don't expect the contents to change on a mass scale going forward. Therefore, slow write speeds are less of a concern in my situation. The read speed, at least by USB 2 standards is perfectly acceptable, so I expect it will fulfill its role capably. Uses I can't recommend this drive for though would include running portable apps off it and using it in ways that involve frequently changing large amounts of data on it, for example moving videos or music in bulk to have them with you when travelling. The build quality is okay for the price, with a reasonably solid plastic casing and snugly fitting cap. The materials are obviously not premium, but I don't feel it's going to fall apart the second time I plug it into something. Overall scoring: SPEED (READ): 6 SPEED (WRITE): 2 VALUE (RAW CAPACITY VS PRICE): 9 BUILD QUALITY: 7 HIGHLIGHT: Sheer value for money. LOWLIGHT: Write speed limits faesible uses for it.

Does exactly what it's supposed to do...

Good price . Quality product. Seems to be just the job.

I'm enjoying it, having enough space to store valuable files and it's portability, with secured access to all files, coupled with it's compatibility make me love the drive

Capacity and download from the stick are excellent, but to upload large files to it takes forever. It locks up whilst thinking about what to do next, and then the upload speed goes from its thinking time zero to a very low upload speed at times in KB/s rather than multiple MB/s. I have spent 8 hours so far and only managed to get 20GB onto it from my pictures file of just over 60GB's. Like many larger memory sticks it is not recognised with legacy devices, so had to download the files on my old laptops onto smaller sticks and then transfer them over to this drive as a master backup store that I could play on my smart TV's. Once the files are on the stick I do not have problems in finding them nor the speed in which it is read and downloaded to the laptop or PC.

Useful at the time. Now need much greater capacity.

Det är bra med utrymme men det är lite svårt att överföra bilder och videon, den är också ganska långsam

Great service and excellent value for money

Don’t buy this product it is rubbish. Slow doesn’t sum up how poor it is. It takes so long to download anything that you have to plan your day around downloading even a small item. Cheap for a reason it is no good.

J'ai choisi cette clef car malgré son prix très honnête pour la capacité (128 Go) les commentaires étaient globalement bons. Mon bilan : Positif : 128 Go réels malgré certains commentaires pessimistes. Formatage en plusieurs formats sans problèmes (je l'ai formaté en NTFS). Vraiment pas chère vu sa capacité de 128 Go. Négatif : Clef USB 2.0 désespérément lente en écriture soit 3,8 Mo/sec au max après mesure ! Mais heureusement 12 Mo/sec en lecture ce qui permet par exemple la lecture de films en HD sans problème. Espérant que ce commentaire soit utile à tous.

Bom produto, recomendo...👍👍