Amazon running a deal for these for 56% off.
It can get hot for big file transfers and frequent IO
Sold & Shipped by Amazon AU.
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Plastic, it's almost junk imo.
Yep OK skip this one.
It already had runaway thermal issues, and insulating it doesnt help with that.
If you need a tiny USB, then you likely intend to keep it.
Splurge on the Samsung FIT.
Splurge on the Samsung FIT.
But this one is called Ultra FIT, which sounds like it is better than the FIT (vanilla). ;)
Not even a decent plastic. A plastic that melts from its own heat.
I had one that overheated installing windows, the connector bit melted and warped, the actual flash chip came apart when I pulled the drive.
There’s reports of it melting after 60 seconds of use from all the way back to 2014
https://forums.sandisk.com/t/ultra-fit-usb-3-0-excessive-hea…
I have one of these in 128gb and she gets too hot
64 and 128 size ones look to be on special as well.
Overheating toasty heater, this one.
Perfect for a car stereo.
Which stereo have you had success using these in?
Mine have overheated in both sony and pioneer, and seems to occasionally lockup in alpine.
indeed, these small plastic ones overheat, can't leave it for long music playtimes
Toyota head unit, i havent felt one when using it to comment on the heat but it works flawlessly.
Other than for installing Windows (or Linux) and updating motherboard BIOS, what are the uses for thumb drives these days?
Bait
Officeworks print runs
sharing mp3s and running portable quake on school 486 computers
I can't even recall some family member's birthdays but could still rattle off 20 unique Quake codes if we ever need them, lol.
map q2dm1
i was a doom person… iddqd
Plug in to AVR/car for music
sticking in my bumhole
That's obnoxious and rude… oh.
aand
your name checks out
It’s still useful as a portable storage when I need a bunch of small files accessed on different computers but I don’t know if I’ll have a good network/mobile reception (assuming I get any at all). Obviously very limited and rare use cases though.
Backups, sharing music and movies, the usual.
music player in car , i still burn mp3 and leave in the car media player … giving friends or family movies or photos in high res , etc …..
sharing pixel art p0rn with my peepz at tafe
I use these small USBs for boot media that I leave plugged in so that it doesn't stick out obtrusively ie. on my DIY NAS, rather than waste a SATA port, I plug one of these into the USB slot and boot+run Linux off it;
I've used USB flash drives in a bunch of esoteric/experimental projects.
For example, flash drives like this are large enough to fit a Linux persistant liveUSB install on while still being cheap enough to afford destroying them. Great for fun times playing with cryptographic key management at full paranoia-mode using whatever junk computer you've got; to try and pull off professional level security on a budget; largely to prove to yourself that you can.
Good for distributing setup scripting, credentials/certs, installers, and so on; for after the OS is just installed on a machine so that you can bootstrap remote administration.
Sharing files with family or colleagues - I've "lost" too many hard drives lending them to family over the years. Also flash drive uses less power so it'll plug into a TV to watch a movie with family.
These "Someone will nick it" situations like printing and scanning and passing files to people are probably the big one.
For storing p0rn incase you need a quickie on your break.
I had one of these literally melt down while installing windows off it.
https://forums.sandisk.com/t/ultra-fit-usb-3-0-excessive-hea…
I’m not the only one.
Maybe this one might be better for the same price:
Kingston DataTraveler Exodia 64GB USB 3.2 Flash Drive DTX/64GB https://amzn.asia/d/8RmEKiV
yeah, cancelled my order of the Sandisk one and went for two of those.
It can hot :)
lot of USB and storage deals lately
Is this okay to be plugged into a projector without thermal issues?
Pluggd in? Sure.
Loading a JPEG? or a slide? Probably fine.
Playing back media? Nope.
Nah it would be for playing movies, i guess not!
Thanks!
The same capacity for $7 and it won't overheat or melt
https://www.amazon.com.au/SanDisk-32GB-Ultra-Flash-Drive/dp/…
sd card is cheaper
Needed some cheap spareys. These sticks have a habit of not returning when I lend them out.
Warning, don't use these in the side-port of a small laptop if you plan on actually using it on your lap. Unless you like the smell of burning hair.
I had the bright idea of using one as expandable storage for my Chromebook. It was a painful mistake.
These are junk, bought three, all three failed within 1-2 years. They also get stupid hot.
SD cards with adapters are much better.
I have the 256gb version. It's almost unusable being how slow the transfer speeds are. Sometimes as slow as 2-5mb/s
Painfully slow write speeds
These have a use - but only the 16GB model.
I install them in all the routers I setup to capture logs. Stops clients pulling them out. They are TERRIBLE on laptops and get way too hot.
With so much negativity why isn't this deal negged more for those that don't read Ozbargain comments.
good for unraid
That was my reason to but this.. Have you had any issues with heat while using it for unraid
Its now $10 and its hard to recommend now at $10 for 32gb with 128gb now $25
Now $10.94. I just bought one (cheaper than OW) as my Roland Synth can only recognise up to 32GB.
Metal plug or plastic plug?
I used to thermal paste the metal ones, but the last I got was plastic, so there was no solution to the heat.