Been looking around for a thumb drive. Lowest price ever. Remember to activate the shopback promo to get $3 cashback for min $10 spent.
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I've had two of the previous generation ones (a USB 2.0 32GB and a USB 3.0 128GB) and while they do get hot during sustained writing (reading is fine), they're both still working fine (the 32GB one is 5 years older or more and the 128GB is probably over 2 years old).
And both have been primarily plugged into my car's audio system, and never suffered any issues even during summer with direct sunlight heating up the centre console for hours.
I was thinking of getting this as a lazy external HDD for a recent Wii U Premium purchase, are those temps your talking about going to be a problem do you think?
This could be a generational or batch issue with the newer Ultra Fit range from SanDisk and it might very well having nothing to do with heat but actual NAND quality or a controller issue; but honestly I've used a lot of small form factor USB flash drives (including all metal ones which heat up even worse) and I've never seen any of them actually rendered bricked from that heat build-up.
It's typically the writing that causes the most temperature increase and realistically, how sustained are writes to flash drives going to be? It's not like people are using flash drives as NAS devices where they might copying files for hours and hours at a time.
People also don't realise that flash NAND chips like the ones found in USB flash drives, SSDs and memory cards have incredibly generous temperature ranges, anywhere from -40C to 90C, and certainly tolerate far more extreme temperatures than HDDs.
I'd say you would be fine for using one of these in a Wii U, but perhaps buy it from a local supplier like OfficeWorks so you can have a easier time returning it if you do run into any problems.
Good price, but looks like the write speed isn't great, and that some units overheat.
Would be good as a bootable OS in a VM, server, linux, etc due to good read speeds.
For me, after about 30 seconds into the file transfer, the write speeds drop top 10mbps. Absolutely rubbish
How to get the reduced price (am seeing $19.99 in checkout)?
Edit: ok price has been updated on Amazon now.
yep, had 2 both fell apart in a few months. avoid.
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Avoid this. Bought one last year. It heats up very badly during even normal workloads. Got up to probably 60-70*C. AVOID