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Thanks to the two-piece plastic slide mechanism that protects the drive’s port when not in use, the USB-C connector is just a bit too short to plug into most motherboards successfully. If you are looking in the premium territory of the best USB flash drives, then the Samsung T3 is worth taking a look at. Aside from its top-notch performance, it also sports both a UCB-C and a USB-A port (one on each side) and a metal shell that feels a lot nicer than much of its plastic-clad competition.

Copy your files via our proprietary app and they’ll show up on the drive – so you have a totally secure back-up of all the important moments. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Orico UFSD-C (1TB): This metal-clad USB-C drive looks and feels great and performed quite well overall, though its benchmark results didn't stand out in any real way.Better yet, these newer flash drives have increased their data transfer speeds and storage capacity to up to 256GB, which means that they’re capable of storing large files like videos, high-res photographs, and music. And if you want a simple solution to transferring data from your USB stick straight to and from your phone, camera or other mobile devices, why not consider an OTG Micro USB too.

Note that the Mushkin SSD took the top spot here, with the Orico drive turning in a surprise second-place appearance. On the minus side, the drive has the same creaky, cheap-feeling plastic shell as the 1TB model, and it's nearly an inch wide, making it a tight fit on some laptops where the ports are placed close together. Join the experts who read Tom's Hardware for the inside track on enthusiast PC tech news — and have for over 25 years. These are not the fastest speeds out there so if you require something with more oomph, then check out some of the other USB drives in this roundup. Orico USSD-X (512GB): Orico's latest flash drive is wrapped completely in metal, and feels surprisingly solid in your hand.

But Verbatim uses Microban antimicrobial protection that prevents the growth of microorganisms like bacteria. But it's slightly more expensive than the Fit drive and had a tendency to land near the bottom of our tested Samsung drives in terms of performance. We'll send breaking news and in-depth reviews of CPUs, GPUs, AI, maker hardware and more straight to your inbox. Colif said:That isn't enough, need to also make sure it actually exists as there are plenty of wrongly branded fakes out there. Copy your files via our proprietary app and they'll show up on the drive - so you have a totally secure back-up of all the important moments.

Whether you have files that you need to bring with you, are trying to back up important files, or simply need extra storage for your laptop, an excellent flash drive should save you some money. Unlike external hard drives, these compact devices are better suited for short-term use and portability. But its design is overly complicated, as is its setup process (which forces you to agree to a EULA which, when we wrote this, was still 404ing).To get a sense of how these flash drives compare to a larger (though still usually pocketable) external SSD, we also ran our flash drive tests on the Mushkin's CarbonX, a 1TB External SSD that's rated to similar speeds as the fastest flash drives, or "Up to 1,000 MBps. PCMark 10 is a trace-based benchmark that uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to measure the performance of storage devices. USB flash drives have been ubiquitous for decades, remaining the go-to option for anyone who needs local, pocketable access to key files.