Hi all,
First time posting a hot deal so go easy on me.
Received a CCC alert that this was on sale for $39.99 from $50.56 at Amazon. It is within 5% of the lowest ever price ($38.83). Also nice bonus is the same day delivery (at least for my address). The expiry appears to indicate that it's a one-day only sale (today - August 14, 2017).
I set this alert up a few months ago because I read good reviews on its speed and reliability. Accordingly, I ordered one.
these are one of the approved usb drives for Nvidia shield add on storage. Definitely a good buy for someone that has a 16gb shield.
Re: Procurement, Life & RFD
nasa25: say you won it in a raffle. That's what I do with like 86% of my purchases
infinityloop: Lying to your SO seems like an unhealthy long term strategy
nasa25: lmao
My personal favorite ... If I have to find a flaw from this thing, it might be the little "spring-loading" plug-in mechanism feeling ... and yes, it's FAST !!!
It's okay but nowhere near the same performance. A lot of ppl complain about high heat on the Fit Flairs as well. Also 5yr warranty v. lifetime on the Extreme. While many USB 3.0 drives have good sequential performance, where the Extremes excel is in 4K performance--they have faster 4k write performance than the vast majority of flash drives out there, and by a wide margin. That's really the appeal of these...well that and the lifetime warranty and Sandisk name. But yeah the Extreme is basically a fast in all cases drive while most USB drives, even the faster ones, can't really say that.
There are faster USB drives out there, including Sandisk's own Extreme Pro, but pretty much everything above this is even more pricey and those are basically just SSDs with USB interfaces like Corsair's GTX and Mushkin's Ventura Ultra.
