Samsung - BAR Plus 32GB USB 3.1 Flash Drive - Champagne Silver
Model: MUF-32BE3/AM
SKU: 6296021
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Customers find value in the BAR Plus 32GB USB 3.1 Flash Drive's durability and compact size, frequently praising its toughness and portability. Many appreciate the drive's attractive design and substantial storage capacity for their digital files. Positive feedback also highlights the drive's affordability. Overall, the product receives high marks for its combination of performance and practicality.
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I love these usb flash drives in the metal enclosure. Very durable and tough to damage. Fyi, the metal will get scratched from contacting the metal pins of the usb port. Good read speeds when used in a usb 3.1 port. Write speeds are not that great but I use them for running diagnostic programs so they are mainly being read from.
Posted by maaachuuun
-----Reader Education------ USB 2 can run at 0.48Gbps (40Mb/s real world) The naming for USB 3 is a complete mess of renamed standards: USB 3.0 / USB 3.1 Gen 1 / USB 3.2 Gen 1 are all re-brands of the same thing (5Gbps) USB 3.1 / USB 3.1 Gen 2 / USB 3.2 Gen 2 are all re-brands of the same thing (10Gbps) USB 3.2 / USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 are all re-brands of the same thing (20Gbps) A USB 3.0 interface can do about 450MB/s real world Just cause a drive is marked as USB 3 does not make it faster than a USB 2 drive Analogy 1: Just cause the speed limit is 300Mph does not mean the car can go actually go that fast Analogy 2: Putting USB 3 on a junk drive is like putting a golf cart on the freeway, it is not gonna go faster cause it is on the freeway A mechanical HDD can read at about 150MB/s cheap ($20) Sata 3 SSD can do 550MB/s Read and 300MB/s to 500MB/s Write, there is no reason why flash drives with write speed at over 300MB/s are nowhere to be seen -----Product Review------ I got this drive under the hope that Samsung would not want to tarnish there name by selling a trash tear drive with there name on it and i am glad to say they this is not a trash tear drive, the write speed are far from something to brag about, but they are usable enough to not hurt the general user experience Rule of thumb is if a drive does not advertise it write speed it is gonna be bad I Wanted a cheap drive that is not horrifically slow, turns out this drive is not complete junk like the last cheap drive i got at best buy was (64gb pny usb 2.0) that is so slow it may as well be a 4gb drive as nobody has time to fill more than 1gb of data to the thing 200MB/s read on a flash drive will not do anything for the average user, yea it is great for installing windows to a computer from, but it does not making putting windows on the flash any faster, a typical user will not see any difference running this drive on a USB 2 port vs a USB 3 port This drive is made by "Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan (formerly Feiya Technology Corp.)" or at least my sample was Single file copy test: 1,039,792,981 bytes (~1GB) from a 7200 RPM 1TB HDD to this drive took 1 minute and 5.37 seconds on a USB 2.0 port
Posted by EvilKitty
Great look to it, but is very hard to put it and to take out of USB ports. Also once you use it the surface is ruined as it tightly scrapes inside of the USB port. The drive looks nice until you use it basically. The material or finish on it is also super slippery and makes it hard to hold
Posted by John