Patriot PEF32GSUSB Supersonic 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive

Fastest USB drive I've ever encountered
This is an amazing drive. Don't be put off by its slightly uninspiring physical appearance - it's easily the fastest USB drive I've ever used.

I read a couple of reviews of this drive before purchasing, which said it has read speeds of around 100 MB/s and write speeds of 70 MB/s. I tested this claim with a disk benchmarking program called Atto, and the results showed that the drive really is that fast. This is just phenomenal for a USB drive - even a USB 3 drive, many of which average around 30 MB/s read & write times. Patriot's "Quad Channel technology" is clearly not just a gimmick. The drive's also faster than many USB 2 drives when plugged into a USB 2 port. Copying a 3.5GB file from my SSD to this drive over USB 3 took about 30 seconds.

Patriot are onto a winner here. Highly recommend this drive.

Patriot PEF32GSUSB Supersonic 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive

Very fast and reliable
I bought this Patriot flash drive because I needed a reliable, fast and small memory stick. It cost more than other brands of USB 3.0 drives but because the performance was supposed to be so much better I stumped up my cash and bought one.

From the start I was impressed by its build quality and its performance. It was far faster than the other, smaller drives I had (mostly Sandisk branded) and fitted the bill nicely. However, a few months later I realised that I needed another USB drive of the same size and decided to try a different brand because of the difference in price and bought Transcend 32GB JetFlash 700 Super Speed USB 3.0 Flash Drive for around a third less cost. That claimed to have similar performance and indeed was also fast in practice. To compare I ran actual tests on them both by transferring my own data, and also by using a proper piece of testing software called ChkFlsh 1.16 and...

Patriot PEF32GSUSB Supersonic 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive

Patriot USB 3 flash drive 32GB
This flash drive looks alright, not the best looking flash drive I have seen on Amazon, but good enough. It's built very well as you would expect for the money and brand, and you do get what you pay for with electronics.

As for performance, when I transferred film it averaged 70-75 MB/sec (took 60 sec to send several gig), small files around 30-35MB/sec. Not super fast, but quick enough.

Not that worried as USB 2.0 you would be waiting a fair amount of time.

If you want a good, fast, USB 3 flash drive, then this isn't bad for the money, you do get a good deal, tenner less and the get the next best thing- Transcend 32GB JetFlash 700 Super Speed USB 3.0 Drive. If you want even faster then you are looking at