SanDisk 256GB Ultra Dual Drive Luxe USB Type-C $46.45 Delivered @ The Around Australia via Amazon AU

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I've had the black one on my keychain for a year with no signs of wear/tear, significantly better option over the push-click models that break straight away.

These have both USB-A & USB-C for nearly all devices.

SanDisk 64GB Ultra Dual Drive Luxe USB - A$18.99 + Prime Delivery

SanDisk 128GB Ultra Dual Drive Luxe USB - A$26.50 + Prime Delivery

SanDisk 256GB Ultra Dual Drive Luxe USB - A$46.45 + Free Delivery

SanDisk 512GB Ultra Dual Drive Luxe USB - A$86.86 + Free Delivery (Update: sold out on Amazon, now sold by third party seller for $88)

SanDisk 1TB Ultra Dual Drive Luxe USB - A$189.99 + Free Delivery (Update: Sold out on Amazon, now sold by third party seller for $179.50)

The 1TB, 512GB & 256GB models shouldn't require Prime for the free delivery.

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  Jimbuscus on 10/01/2022 - 17:11

  At 150mb/s, the higher volume you go the diminishing use it is, as it's bottlenecked to 7200rpm HDD speeds.
  If you get 1tb, depending on the type of files, its going to take a very long time to read/write that much data.

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    peachhead101 on 10/01/2022 - 17:17

    +2

    It would still perform the same for the same sized files though right?
    For example, if I had a 128GB drive with 80GB on it and I'm loading a 400MB file onto it, it should be the same write speed as a 1TB drive with 750GB on it and I'm loading a 400MB file?

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      Jimbuscus on 10/01/2022 - 17:30

      The performance depends on whether those files are many small files or fewer large files making up the total amount. CrystalDiskMark can give you an indication of how different speeds are for these situations and they can be a lot.

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      MasterScythe on 10/01/2022 - 17:55

      +1

      Yep precisely.

      If you're using it like most do, to save to, bit by bit; the larger ones will give you a higher resilience.

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  thesmartone1125 on 10/01/2022 - 17:25

  +1

  Get extra 5% off at OW with their price beat!

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  Wolfofwallstreet on 10/01/2022 - 17:28

  I'm used to SSD speed of at least 400MB/s so no buy from me.

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    edfoo on 10/01/2022 - 18:17

    +2

    Unfortunately some people want a flash drive small enough to hook onto their keyring. Most portable SSD drives are too big for that.

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      Butt Scratcher on 10/01/2022 - 19:03

      +1

      Yup, that is definitely the main appeal for me. You just hook it into a keyring, and it has the added convenience of a usb A head and a usb C head

      Write speed isn't great as with all compact usb's, they will always throttle in some way after a while.

      From my experience, write goes from about ~45MB/s to ~30MB/s

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        Jimbuscus on 10/01/2022 - 21:12

        I use mine as an external Drive that resides on my keys, handy as its own storage, just not fast enough for large transfers once you write & then read together.

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      garage sale on 11/01/2022 - 06:54

      yep, for me it’s the key ring portability, don’t expect SSD performance in that form factor.
      my desktop has USB A and my laptop is 2 ports of USB-C, no A so i’m slowly moving to these dual port devices.

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  Junk Sifter on 10/01/2022 - 18:28

  +1

  25MB/s sequential write speed on the 128GB model according to a review.

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    Jimbuscus on 10/01/2022 - 21:10

    +1

    I just attempted a 70gb transfer of a ton of files and had to give up, then 10GB of larger files was fairly fast.

    I wouldn't get more than 128GB because of the speeds, I have the 256GB and will be unlikely to use that much. This USB is more useful as an external storage than something to transfer with.

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  02LyW on 10/01/2022 - 18:31

  +2

  A tiny bit cheaper here
  https://www.memoski.com/collections/type-c-usb-256gb/product…

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  toxicdav3 on 11/01/2022 - 05:22

  +1

  Bought one of these 256gb ones for $39 during amazon black friday and doesn't work with USB 2.0. Can't quickly playback a video on a lot of tvs and media players, transfer a file to like a printer/3d printer, playback music in a car or transferring dashcam files. Wouldnt even work on a old win 7 work pc on the front 2.0 ports, had to use one 3.0 at the back.

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  garage sale on 11/01/2022 - 06:43

  +2

  not device of choice if are people expecting these to perform like an SSD drive ? ……they use different flash cells, have different controller, and some don’t have any SLC cache, just some DRAM as SLC is more expensive than DRAM…..

  they are slow to write to as it takes more processing to write a cell and validate it, and have faster read than write speeds …… people get more frustrated reading data as they need it “now” but writing data you can be doing other things while it happens in the background ….they are made to a price.

  they aren’t SSD replacements, for that you can buy samsung T series which run as fast as SSD SATA (faster if you have 3.2).

  they are portable storage devices for either back up (back up while doing other stuff) and taking data with you in which case the read speed is faster than write speed ……

  i like these samsung thumb drives because they fit onto a key ring, i can back up my work data and take it it with me to other locations …. it won’t replace my boot device or working drive if in want speed.

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  Alzori on 11/01/2022 - 15:06

  +1

  Got a much lower capacity one a while ago, I love it. Very well built and convenient.