Silicon Power 5 Pack 32GB USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 USB Flash Drive Blaze B02

I tested these flash drives with a "Flash Check" utility (chkflsh.exe) which writes data to all the addresses and then sees if the drive returns the same data when read. These drives showed errors near the "far end" of the memory, which is sometimes a symptom of QC rejects. This means the drive will appear fine at first, but once you start exercising the full range of the drive (which will happen after 128GB of writes) you would be susceptible. Unfortunately, more and more "cheap" flash drives exhibit this behavior and customers don't discover the issue until time has past. Don't use these flash drive unless you can tolerate the appearance of corruption; that is to say.. I don't think you should use these flash drives.

My new smart television has two USB jacks for playing videos and movies. I was looking for two inexpensive USB flash drives to load my home videos and other video content onto so I can watch them on demand from the television. After doing a lot of searching, I settled on this two-pack set of USB flash drives. They provided the most memory for the price that I could find.They're fast enough to serve up 4K video without frame drops. I can store around 100 videos on each. I've had no problem writing to them and reading from them. I've formatted them in both DOS and Mac formats. I finally settled on the Mac format to accommodate larger video files, which I could not write to a DOS format. Fortunately, my smart television accommodates both formats.I plan to purchase several more for extra storage when I fill these up.

I tested both flash drives out of the package with f3probe (Linux). Both drives tested as genuine. Free space about average for 128G drives (about 5G less than some much more expensive brands). Reformatted partition as ext4 and put about 93 G of encrypted, compressed files onto it. It's only a little bit slower than my fastest USB 3 flash drives. Nicely built and has an increasingly rare easy to see activity light built into the end. I'm as satisfied as possible. For comparison, I have some major brand name USB 3 flash drives that are half the speed of these. I'm going to buy them again.

I've seen SO many mixed reviews, mostly negative. Fakespot rates this a Grade C based on review sources. Unfortunately, people quite often receive FAKE knockoffs (not Silicon Power's fault obviously, so they end writing very negative reviews about the REAL thing not realizing they got a fake one. Happens a LOT on Amazon. Had the same experience many times.I have verified multiple times that this is indeed a 128GB capacity flash drive. This drive writes video files (100mb to 2GB) at about 20 to 30 Megabytes per second. Just bought a Teamgroup 3.2 drive (the bottle opener one) that writes over 130 Megabytes per second consistently, depending on the USB port I'm using. Keep in mind, SMALL files tend to write much slower than large files. I don't understand the math behind it, but that even affects good USB drives.

Wanted to create a Bootable Installation/ Repair USB for My Windows 10 Computer with the "New" Windows 10 1093 ISO. My Media Creation Tool wouldn't "recognize" the B02 as an available USB. I used File Explorer and found out that the B02 has an underhanded CD Drive within It; also, I noticed that the B02 has a SP Service Directory with "Activate Warranty" Files' inside. BOTH of These are NOT listed in the Product's Description.When you see "128 GB" Advertised, You will expect It to mean 128 GB of Storage Space Available.Frustrated, I just reformatted the B02 in hopes that it would remove the underhanded CD Drive on the B02 too. My hopes was lost because the reformatting didn't remove the underhanded CD Drive and got even more frustrated that the B02 only has 115 GB OF FREE SPACE!So, no thanks to the underhanded CD Drive... My Media Creation Tool will not recognize the B02 as being a "Bootable" USB nor My Computer's System Image Backup will recognize It as a Valid Backup Location.So... All of This makes the "Silicon Power 128GB USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 USB Flash Drive Blaze B02" an Extremely Misrepresentation Item.

I've bought other brands of USB thumb drives that supposedly were the same capacity. They were either painfully slow or were counterfeit. Counterfeit in that they were set up to register as 128 GB, but memory tests such as H2testw show they were really small capacity. These are as fast as stated and pass diagnostic tests with no errors. If you buy a USB thumb drive or micro SD storage device, I strongly suggest you download the free H2testw program (do a search for it) before trusting important data to the device. You'll be happy you did. These thumb drives work well.

I have purchased these 2 packs 2 more times since this purchase. These little drives work perfectly and can take a beating as well. I've probably referred these to over 100 people since first using them. I do car stereo installs on the side and I have used these for a discrete usb music collection in the glove box or center console at 4 times. The capacity and the speed for the price are hard to beat and I'm sure I will be buying more.

Pretty surprising the price drops in large solid state non-volatile memory. This 2-pack is a bargain if the devices remain stable - I have only just acquired them for use in transferring large files from one computer to another.Complete success in file transfer, though not quite as fast as I would have expected from USB-3 connections. My speed estimate is subjective - I didn't measure actual transfer time.All-in-all, a bargain, even if the memories fail in 6 months.

This seems to be a good value product.The package came with 5 individual retail packed sticks, package shows USB 3.2 version on them, Made in Taiwan.A quick R/W speed test shows 91.58MB/s for Read and 67.27MB/s for Write while connected to PC via USB 3 hub.To those who designed the thing - could have made it so that the cap attaches to the back of the drive (when in use) so it doesn't get lost since it's made of clear plastic or make the cap in color.

Speed test completed to actually transfer 1Gb to 2Gb of data. The average speed was 10-12Mbs/sec. This file speed reduced significantly after a sustained transfer of 700Mbs. Tested in a 3.0 USB port and exFat format.In my opinion, these drives are suitable if the files are small and the transfers are occasional, otherwise if more frequent then invest in a good ScanDisk flash drive which is 3 to 4 times faster. Scan Disk drives are generally a bit more costly.These drives have an led lite and look nice. They are a decent overall value for the cost. I am happy.

Value for price?, definitely!I love Silicon Power products, the quality is great and they have an excellent price point. Definitely recommended!EDIT after about 1 month these stopped transferring at fast speeds, I can now only use them for simple/single file transfers. Probably well past my return date. Very disappointed as I've had good luck with SP TB hard drives.

This memory stick is listed as USB 3.1 with a capacity of 128GB. The actual stick allows only 115GB storage, the data write speed I get is around 38 Mb/s (which is low end for USB 3.1) and as a final letdown, the protective cap does not even fit on the "back end".....

It was a bit expensive for what it is and performance wasn't spectacular.On the plus side it is surviving OK on my key ring.