LinkMore NR34 256GB USB3.2/USB3.1 Flash Drive, Read Speed up to 120MB/s, Write Speed up to 60MB/s, USB Thumb Drive

This is such a fantastic little flash drive but it has so much storage space. Just don't lose it because of course it can fit in that little bitty pocket on your jeans.

Am very impressed! On a 64GB drive I'm seeing reliable read transfers that hover around 130mbps (+/- 5mbps) and write transfers that appear to vary in a sinusoidal manner that peak around 80mbps and drop to about 5mbps. Given that the velocity curve shapes are almost perfectly sinusoidal, the average write speed is somewhere between 34 and 38mbps. These results were obtained from a 10gbps hub plugged into a 10gbps port on the computer. Under these same conditions, these "Moment" drives perform substantially faster than 64GB SanDisk high-speed USB drives that were my prior standard. Needless to say, I am switching my preferred drives to these.

So Far so good

great product.

Works like it should and easy to use. Good amount of space.

This product is fine for storing 256gb on a flash drive, but it has a very slow read/write time for any semi-large or large file. That's fine, if you have no need for speed. It reminds me of the old days (Win 98/XP) when you would get up in the morning and turn on/boot your PC. You could take a shower, have breakfast, make your bed, and then maybe, just maybe, your PC had booted up finally. Same with this flash drive. You can get a lot of chores done while you wait to transfer a large file. But the price is right! It was priced 40% below the same storage capacity of my go to flash drive brand (Vansuny). Thus you can take time to "smell the roses" and have some money leftover in your pocket. Again, that assumes you want to go "smell the roses."

Was really easy to be detected by my computer.

This LinkMore NR34 64GB USB drive advertises 60MB/s write speed. That speed is boasted on the product page as well as printed on the package. However, I discovered its real write speed is much slower, reaching only about 30 MB/s at most. It is true that if you test it with CrystalDiskMark, you'll get a sequential write result close to 60 MB/s. However, that's only because the drive is designed to cheat CrystalDiskMark. What really happens is that when the drive firmware detects CrystalDiskMark testing it (by snooping file names), it inflates the speed of its write operation. It does not actually write the given data from the benchmark tool; it only pretends to. You can verify these shenanigans for yourself by simulating CrystalDiskMark: just take a large file and name it to something that starts with "CrystalDiskMark", then paste it to the drive. The apparent copy speed will be high. Now rename that file on your PC to anything else and copy it again after deleting the original from the thumb drive. You'll see that it transfers much slower. In the first case, you end up with a corrupt file. (See the screenshots for elaboration.) Beware that trying this might corrupt the drive's file system. The other screenshot shows the true result of CrystalDiskMark when it's been modified to use different names for its temporary files. The sequential read speed does indeed match what is claimed. You can also use other tools, other file systems, loopback images, etc., to get the drive's true performance. What's funny is that other reviews here do show the slower write speed when using other benchmark tools alongside CrystalDiskMark, but the reviewers didn't seem to recognize the scam.