Transcend32GB JetFlash 710 USB 3.1/3.0 Flash Drive (TS32GJF710S), Silver

Transcend 32GB JetFlash 710 USB 3.1/3.0 Flash Drive: $10.99 at the time of reviewI was an early adopter of the Model 3 electric car from Tesla. I pre-ordered mine the very first day I could and waited a couple of years for delivery. And you know what? I LOVE it! It was worth every minute of wait and penny of the price. After a little while Tesla enabled the built in cameras to be used as a dash cam to protect you while you drive. But in order to use it, you have to plug a USB drive in to store the video files.I chose this drive because it is tiny. I didn’t want the drive I used to stick out too much for fear that something in that compartment would get stuck on it and break it. Well, I got what I asked for. This little fella is *tiny**What I liked*:As I just mentioned, it fit my desire for a tiny little drive that didn’t take up too much room. It only stuck out like ⅔ of an inch!It worked perfectly for my needs. I just stuck it in the USB port and the car recognized it, formatted it, and started to record to it on my first drive after install.*What I didn't like*:Honestly, the only thing I didn’t like about it was the storage capacity, and that’s not its fault. As it turns out I should have just bought the 64GB version.*The Bottom Line:*This is great drive to record videos to in a Tesla. It’s also tiny enough that if you wanted to keep it on your keychain to have a portable drive, you wouldn’t even notice it’s there. For just over $10 bucks (or just under $15 for the 64GB version), this is a total five stars out of five. I’d definitely buy it over again.

These are great and small. If you bump one while it's in a computer, the computer chassis will warp before this does, or at least it did in my case. (not too badly, everything still worked!)I've gone out of my way to buy the 256gb which isn't sold on US Amazon.Hey Transcend, can you keep making these in larger capacities? I would definitely buy a 512gb or 1tb version.

Pros: As a portable USB storage device, this works perfectly. Read/Write speeds are as advertised and formatting it to work with your operating system is a breeze and takes very little time. Mounting it the first time resulted in no response from the OS, but who knows, maybe I didn't plug it in correctly? However, it's been working fine since. This aspect of the USB drive works perfectly now.It is built extremely well and I feel that it's dust/shock resistance is a real statement to it's build quality - I believe it after dropping my keys with this thing attached quite a few times. Nothing seems cheap about the construction, considering the price, however the laser-etched logo on one side is a tad blurry, not that you want to be staring at a logo while using it. It serves its purpose as branding and if this is what helps keeps a great product like this stay cheap, by all means, keep doing it. Faster read/write performance would be a key area of interest for me.Cons: Now to a negative, and the only negative: it's keychain functionality. Unless you have a perfect circle (and I DON'T mean the keychain's loop that from its construction, I mean the actual width of metal going through the loop of the USB drive), it stands up right and will not move unless you move it to a thinner part of the ring. It can make for uncomfortable juggling your keys in your pocket, as well as sometimes even making it difficult to grab one of the keys themselves. This isn't a deal breaker for me, because having storage on you at all times is useful. I just wish there was more real estate for keychain rings to move around without a secondary, smaller key ring to remove the problem.

Works exactly like it's supposed to.I use it for the stereo in my car. It gets very hot, but that's normal for a flash drive. It does not get 'melt the dashboard around it' hot. And it's very small so it' not in the way at all. It sticks out less than a half inch from the USB port.Just to make sure a had a good one and neither a defective unit or a fake capacity drive, I tested it using a utility called H2testW. You can download this utility after a quick google search. What it does is writes single bit data to the disk in 1 GB file increments to totally fill the disk to capacity. Then it reads that data back to make sure the data isn't corrupted or missing. This lets you know if someone has taken a smaller 4GB disk and slapped a 16GB label on it and hacked the control chip so it looks like a 16GB drive when it's actually 4GB. This is much more of a threat with larger capacity drives like 128GB and up, but it's always worth checking anyway just to know for your you have a real 16GB working device. See the screen shot below of the readout from that test.In that testing this drive had sustained write speeds of about 13 MB per second and sustained read speeds of about 73 MB per second. This test was run in a USB 3.0 port. While the 13 MD per second write speed isn't Earth shattering by any means, it's good enough to write songs to the disk one time to be left in the car. The 73 MB per second read speeds far exceed anything you'd ever come close to needing for MP3 playback, even at higher bit rate encoding.UPDATEI have now bought the 16GB and the 32 GB versions of this and they both work great and have tested as authentic.