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  • flashpowered - Monday, August 31, 2015 - link

    While the GTX v2 is double the price of the Sandisk Extreme 256GB stick I've had on my watchlist for a while, I like that this is a proper SSD in a stick. A couple of these would be great for fast and portable backups of my photo library.
  • DanNeely - Monday, August 31, 2015 - link

    Half of the Crystalmark scores being ordered differently than the other half was really confusing until I realized what was going on. Is that something you can easily fix?
  • ganeshts - Monday, August 31, 2015 - link

    Yes :( Unfortunately, the two new drives were benchmarked with the latest versions of CrystalDiskMark, while the earlier ones used CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3; I need to get down to benchmarking them again with the newer version - However, the issue here is that we wouldn't be doing apples-to-apples comparison. The ATTO and CDM benchmarks are done with a fresh drive in that order. This is followed by our DAS suite which transfers upwards of 150 GB to/from the drive. Once that much wear has been endured by the flash drive, I am not sure the results would be comparable to that of a fresh drive.
  • DanNeely - Monday, August 31, 2015 - link

    IMO if filling one of these drives to ~30/60% once is enough to cause a permanent (or non easily user-reversible) degradation; any tests done before writing them to capacity several times are uselessly not-real world.
  • ganeshts - Monday, August 31, 2015 - link

    Typical use-case for flash drives is writing lots of data and not deleting it for a month or two. Already, our DAS test case writes upwards of 150GB of data.. It more than covers the standard wear / tear test for the average user.

    The problem is with the synthetic benchmarks. I have run CDM after torturing the flash drive (like running our DAS test suite twice in a row), and I can easily see 15 - 20 MBps difference in the sequential benchmarks for the 64GB drives.
  • LoneWolf15 - Monday, August 31, 2015 - link

    Please, someone bring back the Sandisk Cruzer Titanium.

    The early ones were built tank tough, out of very solid metal.
    They were all switchblade design, so you couldn't lose a cap.

    Nobody has made something that works as well for me since, and sadly, SanDisk never made USB 3.0 versions..
  • Fujikoma - Monday, August 31, 2015 - link

    This might be worth picking up to use with an MP3/FLAC aftermarket automobile head unit. I was thinking of using the Samsung drive, but this would be easier to mount up under the dash where a thief wouldn't really check. It would also hold all of my music and I wouldn't need to carry around a small SD card holder anymore.
  • khanikun - Tuesday, September 1, 2015 - link

    I got sick of doing all that. So I went the Bluetooth route. I just pair my phone up and my phone has 132 gb of storage. Sadly, my phone doesn't support 256 gig microSD cards.

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