Question Thumb Drive Ratings ?

[DH-CO]

I don't understand how you could have rated the Kingston DataTraveler so high.
Based upon your recommendation I purchased the 1TB drive.
I copied 550GB to the drive from an internal SSD and the drive was on a USB 3.0 port.
It took over 2 hours for the copy to complete. The performance was terrible. It just kept getting slower and slower.
For comparison I copied the same files from the SSD and using the same USB 3.0 port on a SSK thumb drive and it completed in 28 minutes.
I did it again with a SK hynix and it competed in 30 minutes.

How could you recommend such a piece of garbage?

 

[Aeacus]

I guess you're referring to this article?
Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks/best-flash-drives

If so, do note that TH only tested 10GB data read/writes. So, for up to 10GB, the USB thumb drive is fast.

However, based on PCworld review,
link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2653648/kingston-datatraveler-max-review.html

The USB thumb drive will slow down, drastically, with very long writes.
Once the secondary cache runs out, the write speed drops to 80 MB/s.

And this is also what you experienced.

Moving forwards, it is best to read several reviews from different sites. Since some other site may test what TH does not test.

 

[Lutfij]

Just to clarify something, Kingston have been known to cherry pick their reviewers samples so reviewers give them stellar ratings. It was brought up by Logan over on his TekSyndicate YT channel. Their gear would score very highly among reviewers only to have users purchase their goods(regardless of what product it was) to end up with lower scores(if memory or storage) or badly built devices(headsets or peripherals) = they switched the innards/quality just before it hit store shelves.

 

[DH-CO]

I guess you're referring to this article?
Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks/best-flash-drives

If so, do note that TH only tested 10GB data read/writes. So, for up to 10GB, the USB thumb drive is fast.

However, based on PCworld review,
link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2653648/kingston-datatraveler-max-review.html

The USB thumb drive will slow down, drastically, with very long writes.
Once the secondary cache runs out, the write speed drops to 80 MB/s.

And this is also what you experienced.

Moving forwards, it is best to read several reviews from different sites. Since some other site may test what TH does not test.

Pretty close. Except the speeds dropped to a low of 43 MB/s.

 

[alceryes]

True reviews of hardware should always come from retail samples, purchased without the manufacturer's knowledge or input. Manufacturers play too many shenanigans with cherry-picked samples, nowadays.

 

[Aeacus]

True reviews of hardware should always come from retail samples, purchased without the manufacturer's knowledge or input. Manufacturers play too many shenanigans with cherry-picked samples, nowadays.

Cherry-picking usually happens at product launch, where there is no product in retail stores. And manufacturers want publicity for their product. For reviewer, it is hard to say no to such reviews, since manufacturers often pay for the review. Sometimes, reviewer can even keep the product cost free.

What is worse, IMO, is when manufacturer releases product but at some point, makes another revision of it, which is cost down and worse than initial product. Without any word of the worse product.

Gigabyte is notorious in that, with their MoBo revision shenanigans.
Full saga here with pics: https://web.archive.org/web/2015022...hing-it-a-motherboard-revision-too-far,3.html

 

[alceryes]

...What is worse, IMO, is when manufacturer releases product but at some point, makes another revision of it, which is cost down and worse than initial product. Without any word of the worse product.

Gigabyte is notorious in that, with their MoBo revision shenanigans.
Full saga here with pics: https://web.archive.org/web/2015022...hing-it-a-motherboard-revision-too-far,3.html

Yeah, I have one of those parts in my rig. Luckily, I got the early one before they messed with performance.