I like these drives as they are solid and the metal helps cool them.
ATL maybe? Probably not for long as the price of these does keep dropping. I guess people don't like the form factor anymore.
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My understanding is that the heat you are feeling would be there either way, the metal is just better at conducting it away from the chips/circuits. That allows the chips to run cooler vs a plastic enclosure.
Very surprised about the write speed test. Might try testing mine later. Maybe it's crap, lol.
Thanks for the heads up!
Yes, like the heatsink of a cpu, if it's cold and the cpu is under full load it means it probably isn't making good contact.
The real question would be what the power usage of these are. If they draw more power than other usb sticks, then that will make them heat up more even with the heatsinking. I have an inline USB power meter, but I think its only usb2 so it wouldn't be a full speed test
Personally I think these sticks are great. I have about a dozen of them, but I got them from the goodguys (was using the $20 credit they send you every 6 months on the 128gb sticks they had for $24)
Speed test is almost useless. It reduce speed when overheat. But the question is why the hell you writing so much data in this.
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Personally, although they look great, I found that the all-metal body of these causes them to become incredibly hot (to the point they become dangerous to remove), and really impacts on the performance (again, to the point that a trusty USB 2.0 SanDisk was able to beat it, in both copy and write speeds). No hate to the OP, but I would not recommend this scaling stick from hell to my worst enemy.