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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I’ll bite. I bought a bunch of these and I use them regularly and I’m getting frustrated with the wait times. Seeing this post makes me feel like I’ve got the worst of the worst which is motivating me to consider opening my wallet and moving on. Anyone have recommendations for a cheap, reliable usb drive I can buy in bulk (like 5 to start) in the 64-128gb ballpark that might not break records, but isn’t embarrassingly slow? I’m really partial to the double sided drives that have a USB c option as well, but those are still a little hard to find while meeting the other requirements I’ve listed.

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randombullet@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Not cheap, but I just use cheap 256gb sata M.2 drives and a tool less enclosure.

Runs at sata speeds and are cheap. Plus the enclosure supports NVMe so I could run around with a 8TB stick.

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- MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I had a 1 TB one I used for the longest time. My only complaint is that it never played well with any of my Linux devices (Steam Deck randomly decided it was done reading it and I had to unplug it and my Bazzite device just locks up)
  
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  - randombullet@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Strangely enough I’ve had the opposite.
    
    My pcie 4.0x4 drive was giving me about 200MB/s on windows and when I plugged it into a Linux machine, full drive speed.
    
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    MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    That’s weird on the windows speeds. I believe mine is a 4.0x4 too and I got full speeds on everything. Id have to assume it’s a Windows issue though
    
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AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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- Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Lol. Sure. Data loss always sucks so good is important, and I’m prone to loss and theft and don’t have much money so cheap is important. Fast has a low bar for me after dealing with the 10 microcenter drives I bought. Just needs to be a bit faster than those at least.
  
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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I got a Sandisk Ultra Dual Drive Go 128GB for ~$15. It’s fast, inexpensive, and does both USB-C and USB-A. Sandisk is one of the best when it comes to reliability, but I’ve only had it for a couple weeks (bought to replace a cheap POS).

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sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Not personally but microcenter does have that 30 day return period so you could buy something name brand from them and then return it if it doesn’t cut it.

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