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Samsung BAR Plus USB 3.1 300MB/s 128GB $19 or 64GB $9 C&C / + Delivery @ Bing Lee

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doweyy on 06/05/2021 - 11:46 binglee.com.au (4633 clicks)
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Greetings everyone, spotted this price drop and seems like a great price on this USB drive. I believe this is the cheapest I've seen on this so far.

Available on both the Bing Lee website and via their eBay Store. eBay Plus members can get free delivery on the 128GB drive, get in quick as there's only about 60 in stock.

$6 flat delivery costs otherwise via their main website.

64GB Drive for $9 Here

64GB eBay Listing Here - NOTE: This does not have free eBay plus delivery as it’s under $15.

Specifications

  • Up to 300MB/s read Speed
  • Speed in style
  • Reliability
  • Waterproof
  • Rapid mode
  • USB 3.1 Flash Drive

As always, enjoy :)

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  • Manny Calavera on 06/05/2021 - 11:50
    +9

    The write speed on these sucks. But hey, I have a spare $20.

    • Phoebus on 06/05/2021 - 11:59
      +8

      What's the write speed? If read is 300 surely write can't be less than 100
      Edit
      According to Amazon reviews about 35 MBps write speed but even then very unreliable. Don't get if you plan to write often.

      • poporange630 on 06/05/2021 - 12:24
        +4

        I was under the same assumption and purchased it 2 years ago and soon returned it due to the slow write speed.

      • Lief on 06/05/2021 - 13:01
        +5

        It's sadly extremely common with USB flash drives.
        It's hard to find one without completely abysmal 4k write speeds in particular.
        It's weird because you'd easily get faster write speeds by putting a standard microSD into a USB card reader so i don't know where they're getting flash chips this slow.

        • leetec on 06/05/2021 - 17:02

          SD card is tend for recording most so optimize for writing speed or mix use, USB flash drive is tend for reading most so optimize for reading speed. Of cause highend drive can perform much better, but rarelly needed especially it's most 32gb 64gb capacity only. For faster write speed, user opt for SSD drive not USB flash.

        • [Deactivated] on 06/05/2021 - 23:25
          +1

          This is something I'm wondering too. I have two 128GB HP x702w from late 2014 for USD$35, even now they can deliver over 80MB/s w very stably. Sadly none of my newer thumb drives get even close to that speed, even newer model from HP, such as x730w.

      • taki on 06/05/2021 - 20:52
        +2

        Not bad on the 1st test: 122370 MByte tested (without errors).
        Writing speed: 61.5 MByte/s
        Reading speed: 288 MByte/s
        H2testw v1.4

        • [Deactivated] on 06/05/2021 - 23:19
          +2

          Try copy a large file, e.g. 40GB into it, you'll see how it performs. It dropped to below 30MB/s in my case. Not too bad in comparison with other thumb drives I have.

          • Ben Kenobi on 31/05/2021 - 09:25

            @[Deactivated]: Even a large amount (40gb of mixed files) only hit a max of 34MB/s on the one I just bought…feels quite warm too!

            • [Deactivated] on 31/05/2021 - 19:05

              @Ben Kenobi: Yep, your result is very similar to mine. I don't really see how come he could get 60+MB/s write.

    • kfcfatfat on 06/05/2021 - 12:19

      Spec from samsung:

      "Up to 300MB/s read speed for USB 3.0, write speed is lower than read speed. *Actual speed may vary by host device and actual usage conditions."

      WTF…..

    • hollykryten on 06/05/2021 - 12:21

      Sure the heck of a lot better than any USB 2.0 flash drive could perform at.

      • Agret on 06/05/2021 - 21:08
        +1

        The write speed on these is actually pretty similar to a USB2 flash drive, read speed is much better though.

    • Clear on 06/05/2021 - 12:50

      Depends what you're writing to it? If you transfer one large file I'm sure you'll get a fast speed, as opposed to a hundred very small files.

      • Blitzfx on 06/05/2021 - 14:14
        +2

        Copied a huge movie file over, and that's about the speed I got.

        • Lighter Fluid on 06/05/2021 - 14:20
          +1

          Used it to back up a huge folder and although I got great speeds at the start, around the middle it fell to something stupid slow and it took an hour or so to finish.

          • hollykryten on 06/05/2021 - 15:52
            +1

            @Lighter Fluid: Was these huge folders with lots of files. Because after a while that will sure cause the sustained write speeds to be extremely poor. Flash drives are cache-less NAND. The same happens with any flash storage based device without a cache. You watch it also happen to an SSD without NAND cache.

      • [Deactivated] on 06/05/2021 - 23:27
        -1

        Nope, it depends on how much data you are copying onto it. If it's only a few hundred MBs, it could be fast as a result of caching.

  • theguyrules on 06/05/2021 - 12:09

    These are great. They are so handy to have on your keys.

  • leetec on 06/05/2021 - 12:12
    +1

    For its price tag, this Samsung Bar's writing speed is way faster than other brands, the best you can get. And for the need for writing speed, 128gb is so little so you will never worry about the time. I use it everyday and use move than a dozen of it. Only one catch of this USB drive

    • leetec on 06/05/2021 - 12:31

      Bought 6. The only catch of this drive is you must stop it from Windows before unplug it, otherwise it will be killed if any program sill accessing it. I lost 3 drives because of this.

      • Diesmile on 06/05/2021 - 12:48
        +5

        Is this still a thing? Have not done this way for years

        • parad0x on 19/05/2021 - 18:32

          It's my understanding that NTFS formatted drives may still pose a problem, something to do with the journalling.

          For FAT32 you're cleared to proceed, provided there's nothing accessing the card at the time (as the OP suggests was the case)… Though I'm not sure i'd see drive destruction under every circumstance - Maybe some defective data, potentially a cactus FAT, but not physically dead

      • Blue Cat on 06/05/2021 - 12:50
        +2

        Maybe they are not completely dead, just corrupted and Windows doesn't bother to load it up.
        Happened to me once, I just booted up a live Linux distro called "GParted" (no installation to your PC needed, just boot it from a separate USB drive), and completely format the USB drive you apparently "killed". All data got lost, but atleast the drive is still working to this day!

        • leetec on 06/05/2021 - 13:29

          It's killed so not detected in device manager, not corrupted partition or so. I believe it's the cell which hold the drive information has problem. Will try Ubuntu when I have the time.

      • the Unforgiven on 07/05/2021 - 18:12
        +2

        Use diskpart to fix that problem

        Open an elevated command prompt
        type 'diskpart' & hit enter
        type list disk & hit enter

        and it brings up a list of all the drives on your comp,
        if you don't know which is your USB drive, go to
        Disk Management to find your disk

        Then type 'select disk x' (where x is the number of your drive)
        and hit enter, and it will say disk 'x' is now the selected disk
        now type 'clean' & hit enter.
        Make sure you have the right disk as you won't be able to get the data back
        then type 'exit' & enter a few times until the window closes.
        If you really want to make sure you can't get the data back off the drive type in 'clean all', but beware, it will take a hell of a long time to finish.

        Once you are out of the diskpart window, go into 'disk management' to initialise the USB stick, so you can use it. easy eh :p

    • Nukkels on 06/05/2021 - 15:43
      +4

      LOL - a 128GB drive will take over an hour to fill up at ~30MBps.

      IMHO the minimum usable write speed for a drive over 32GB is 100MBps.

      • leetec on 06/05/2021 - 16:56
        -5

        none sense. beside 30MBps is not the speed for large chunks of files copying, you sure know not much about it.

        • Nilfunds on 06/05/2021 - 17:24
          +5

          but he can spell

  • lesher on 06/05/2021 - 12:14

    They ran out of stock already for 128GB… I guess I don't need it after all (I prefer ones with both usb A and usb C connector anyway, like sandisk's ones)

  • Gordon84 on 06/05/2021 - 12:54
    +1

    Restocked! Sweet bought one on the ebay store with free shipping

    • Ozbaragain on 06/05/2021 - 13:00

      Thanks Gordon.. bought one.. !!

  • smurfstah on 06/05/2021 - 13:04

    Cheers OP, grabbed 2 x 128gb. Got a store close by so opted for free C&C :)

  • Dobe on 06/05/2021 - 13:10

    Both in stock at my local BingLee Store
    Have been using these for years, very reliable and durable.
    They tend to get hot but that doesn't affect performance, they write fast enough for my purposes.
    Totally recommend these.

  • [Deactivated] on 06/05/2021 - 13:12

    Has anyone successfully done a price beat at JB Hi-Fi or Harvey Norman in Melbourne before?

    • ibtihaj on 06/05/2021 - 13:31
      +1

      just did it, placed an order via their Sales helpline, C&C and now ready for pickup in VIC store (JB)

  • ExtraSalt on 06/05/2021 - 13:18

    which one of you bought 20 units at 12:12?

    • Dobe on 06/05/2021 - 13:28

      An OzBargain hunter :)

  • Steptoe on 06/05/2021 - 13:25

    Thanks will go great with my Tesla Model 3 for Sentry Mode

  • starspawn on 06/05/2021 - 13:34

    $6 delivery for me, got 2

  • Adriftx on 06/05/2021 - 13:34

    Is this okay for Windows installation. A spare laptop I have had hard drive corrupted recently so with a usb I can atleast use it as second screen.

  • OzBerghainer on 06/05/2021 - 14:01

    Got one of these for my rekordbox library to use on CDJ's. Works well

  • RogueWolf on 06/05/2021 - 14:20
    +1

    also at catch via bing lee

    • ilove on 06/05/2021 - 17:04

      $18 delievery though fee

  • Beyond on 06/05/2021 - 15:21

    I got a 64 and a 128
    on Bing, thanks.

    Also, mobile checkout can be a little buggy, switch to desktop mode you're using a phone.

  • SgtGrumbles on 07/05/2021 - 07:39
    +3

    Why do we have posts like this? I thought this site was for ring sizing kits

  • Krayzii on 07/05/2021 - 23:56

    128gb now on check availability instead of add to cart

  • Epyc on 22/05/2021 - 18:28

    Excellent find, thanks OP :)

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