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Write speeds on thumb drives are pretty gross overall, and seem to degrade pretty badly IME too. I have a 500 GB NVMe drive in an enclosure and it's pretty dang nice. I'll bet you could find a 2230 ...

One thing that puzzles me about data storage, is how slow the average USB thumb drive is. When you consider that thumb drives and SSDs use the same solid-state technology, why are so many thumb drives ...

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Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

TL;DR: PNY's new Ultra-Fast PRO Elite V3 flash drives offer read speeds up to 1,000 MB/sec and write speeds up to 800 MB/sec, thanks to USB Type-C and USB 3.2 Gen 2 interfaces. Available in 256GB to ...

You now have to back up your USB drive before you try to recover anything. You can do this in Disk Drill. Go to Extra Tools, ...