I found a Samsung Type-C USB drive, 512GB, on sale at TGG for $85. You can click the price beat button to bring it down to $80, delivered via Uber.
Samsung Type-C USB Drive 512GB $85 ($80 with Price Beat) + Delivery ($0 C&C/ Uber Delivery) @ The Good Guys
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sky6688 on 12/10/2024 - 21:22 thegoodguys.com.au (1417 clicks)
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Buy a 10cm C female to C male.
That's a good idea, thank you
Does anyone know if this fast? E.g for backing up about 80gb of photos from an iphone?
See comment below.
Done a tested on this drive on transferred 180GB of videos and took 28mins.
So at tops, 100MB/ sec write
Im not sure why you negative this, purpose of this to fast read, storage but not fast write. Most importantly form factor.
Samsung specification doesn't mentioned anything about fast write speed.If you looking for fast write speed, look for something else.
@boomramada: Definitely an inappropriate use of neg, imagine if everyone was like that.
Negging because they think you should buy X product instead of Y.
the usb-c interface isn’t the problem, it’s the protocol the phone uses and many are only usb 2.
iPhone 16 uses USB 2
iPhone 16 Pro uses USB 3Yep, 100%. My wife's i-phone is only usb 2.0 speed.
Lol what a turd, could see this from a mile away. Seen some reviews where the write speed is a paltry 30/40MB a second.
Much better with an actual NVMe SSD in a USB thumb drive form factor, like the one here: Silicon Power DS72: https://www.ple.com.au/Products/664090/silicon-power-ds72-50…
Are you sure it's for the 512GB? The smaller ones would be slower but I would be surprised if the 512GB was this slow.
Might be faster like Sky6688 said above, it's only about 100MB/sec and that's just for video. Not sure what storage is used in it, but at most it would be SATA. Other alternatives at the same price are much faster.
SATA isn't a type of storage, it's a protocol. You're surprised something this small is slow?
@ldd-mn: Not surprised, like I said saw it from a mile away and suggested an alternative that's much better for the price.
people are mixing up MB with Mb, megaybits and megabytes. I Have one of these and it’s extremely fast in my surface pro laptop, but slow on my phone. Phones arent designed to be fast on the data transfer, and it’s why so many cheap usb-c charge cables are only usb 2.0 for data speed I backup my phone to the drIve (slow) then drive to laptop (fast).
Lol it's still much slower than other options like the Silicon Power I mentioned.
@adrianhughes1998: They each have their use case. The Silicon Power is 8cm long. The Samsung is about 1-1.5cm long. I keep my Samsung on my key ring and is with me all the time. Harder to do with the Silicon Power or other NVME drives.
I find the Samsung faster than most other USB thumb drives I have, and quite happy with it.
I also have several T7 SSD drives if I need speed and capacity. There is actually not much need for NVME thumb drives since they are still quite large, and not much difference in size to drives like the T7
@Riker88: I have a T7, still NVMe thumb drives are a lot smaller than the T7 width wise. Everyone has their use case but eventually they will all move to NVMe thumb drives I believe, just the way the cookie crumbles
@Riker88: I had a spare 2230 drive so I picked up a 2230 nvme enclosure off aliexpress.
Best of both worlds, it's ridiculously fast.
That nvme drive is also on sale at amazon for $76.41 https://www.amazon.com.au/Silicon-Power-Portable-Type-C-1050…
Niiiiice, I only have the 250GB model but still decent
Yeah, when Samsung own website (https://www.samsung.com/au/memory-storage/usb-flash-drive/us…) sells the read speed but does not reveal the write speed, it’s obvious.
I think you'll find 95% of flash drives are advertised like that, if not more.
Manufactures don’t spend a lot on these types of devices in regards to internal dram or slc caches as phone interfaces are slow by their nature , haven’t seen phone manufacturers quote their sustained transfer speeds as a selling point, and lack of dram or slc will slow,things down, and these drives aren’t built for vast write cycles in durability either. you back it when you go to bed and if you need to recover or transfer the data that when you have the read speed.
Spend bit more and buy T7 when on sale
Different form factor
Is this a thermal nightmare? Looks like it gets hot
It does get warm, yep, definitely, especially under load. But as others have said - and I am the same - it is best used for reading, not writing. When I tried to get a heap of movies onto it for easy storage to take to a friend's… it took so long, and it heated up ridiculously. But I use it most days for documents, smaller files, and it doesn't overheat with that caseload. It just cannot be compared with truly fast storage like a T7 or - better yet - NVMe in an enclosure.
I've got a mix of T7 Shields, a T9, a Crucial X9 Pro, and NVMe in enclosures, and they are what I generally use for films, media, games etc. This is (as I've learnt) best used with a phone, something slower, or - as I said - for basic office tasks etc. It literally stays with me, on my keyring, it's so small, and really does often come in handy.
Wow…the rage debate over a thumb drive.
If its not for you then skip the postI rock a mixture of hardware for both work and at home.
Samsung T7 2TB, a 512GB 2280 M.2 SSD in an enclosure and the 256GB variant of the samsung thumb drive in this post.
The first 2 are definitely more reliable for both read and writes speeds when transferring larger files between say desktops and laptops if network isn't an option, however the Samsung thumb drive is convenient due to it's small size for smart devices and doesn't require a cable to work like my other 2 do. Pairs nicely with my S23 Ultra, and has saved me a bunch of times with customer devices that need photos backed up etc.
Exact same caseload here - using a mix of T7 Shields, a T9, a Crucial X9 Pro, some SSDs in enclosures, and I have this exact device, and it is perfect for convenient file storage. It is not meant for something like being a media drive, for streaming through e.g. Emby or Plex or whatever, or gaming, it just isn't up to scratch. But again, horses for courses.
I think USB-C lends itself better to cables than drive plugins. The USB-C'y part can snap too easily