Flash Drive being present everywhere and being manufactured by pretty much everyone in the biz, we restricted ourselves to guidelines rather than a Top number list the last time around. But what if you wanted a specific type of pen drive? For those who want a portable Operating System option, you can check out the top two entries in our previous list, which has you covered. In the same vein, let’s cover a top list for those who may be looking for a high-capacity USB drive. You don’t need one of those, you say? Well, good for you. But for those tech-heads whose jobs involve working with large file sizes – be it editing, VFX, design, even photography, a small drive with a humongous capacity is a veritable boon in your pocket. Aside from the obvious benefit of size, the best high-capacity thumb drives from the most reputable manufacturers are specced for the most strenuous lives you can throw at them: off-the-chart endurances of terabytes-written, Read/Write Speed, and high warranties to back up their word with their money. These are usually built for general use – simple data storage and transfer – but they’ll stand up to most uses you put them to – Live Operating Systems or Windows To Go installations, media storage, media transfer, they can even be used as a backup drive in a pinch. These will cover you for pretty much anything you need. USB sticks are also almost always plug-and-play across all of the popular operating systems; Windows, Linux, and Mac. If you have an On-The-Go converter cable, then they can also be read by Android devices as well. So your phone, tablet, Smart TV – anything that can read USB storage – gets a boost. The best units out there that fit these requirements come in capacities of 128 GB or above. At 128 gigs, this provides a good and stable platform for implementing all of the above choices, and the reliable brands live up to the trust they have earned and built up in the hearts and minds of geeks everywhere. And with that, let’s take a look at our Top 4 list of high-capacity thumb drives available in the market.
So, Let’s See How Many Best 128 GB Flash Drive Are Available In The Market, In This Month:
Top 4th – Aisopos Keychain Drive (Waterproof)
USB Type: USB 2.0 Capacity: 128GB Warranty: 5 Year (Guarantee) Color: Silver Encryption: Yes Approx. Price: 19$
Short Review: Aisopos? Huh? Don’t blame yourself for screwing up your face and thinking that; they’re not exactly a household name when it comes to hardware. Regardless, they are a firm that market solidly-built solutions for storage, and one of them happens to be a shiny little silver key with a 128 gig drive attached to it. Which happens to be waterproof. And also resistant to dust. And shock. This little Thumbelina is tough and she looks it – the powerful steel build and the high-quality sealing technology used in the drive’s casing to enclose it give it superb protection from the big bad world. It is flat-out designed for rough use, as indicated by the key ring, with which you can attach it to your keychain without any kind of hassle. It can dangle and clang against the half a dozen items of keys, swiss knife, inhaler, and any other accessories that people need to carry around with them on their key chains. It comes without a cap for the interface, but Aisopos aren’t worried about that affecting its performance, and the exposed part doesn’t stop them from offering a five-year guarantee on the device. Small, lightweight, and with 256-bit AES encryption, it’s a go-to option for the large capacity general-purpose needs. The Silverish highly-polished steel is scratch resistant, so it won’t even lose its looks as it is hanging on your belt.
Top 3rd – SanDisk Ultra Fit
USB Type: USB 3.0 Capacity: 128GB Warranty: 5 Year Color: Black Encryption: Yes Approx. Price:35$
Short Review: Now SanDisk, they really are a household name when it comes to Flash drives. They have a great reputation and without any doubt, they live up to it and keep their customers happy. I know I’m happy, and that’s because, among my other SanDisk stuff I still have a 2 GB stick from something like ten years ago, which I only use to keep backups of my articles on. Like my internal 40 GB Samsung, it just won’t relent to age, like a faithful guardian dog that refuses to lie down and die; Which is appreciated. SanDisk’s first entry here is the Ultra Fit 3.0 – remember what we mentioned about those teeny-tiny drives that are almost the size of a coin? Yeah, this is one of those. What’s impressive as hell is that SD has built it without any big compromises to data transfer rate – it has a Read/Write speed of up to 150 MBps, which is on par with most full-sized sticks, and is only beaten by pen drives specifically designed for performance. This is still fast enough for everyday and normal use, though. It also comes with a little transparent plastic cap for the USB, and a tiny rectangular hole on the “handle” that can be used to tie the unit to a lanyard for safe keeping. Like all of the smallest USB drives, it can fit comfortably into those hard-to-access USB ports on your TV or the harder-to-reach ones surrounded by wires on the back-of-the-cabinet of your PC. SanDisk somehow felt that giving you all of this wasn’t making their product worthy enough of your money, so just to show off, they added their proprietary SecureAccess feature, which is easily the most user-friendly option for 256-bit AES encryption that I’ve ever seen: instead of applying itself to the whole drive, it creates a protected private folder inside the drive that only you can access with the set passcode. You can lend the drive out for anyone to use and still keep your secure data separate and safe. There’s also a one–year free subscription to RescuePRO, SanDisk’s data recovery software. No more headaches from accidental deletion!
Top 2nd – Samsung USB 3.0 Flash Drive Duo
USB Type: USB 3.0 + Micro Capacity: 128GB Warranty: 5 Year Color: Silver Encryption: Yes Approx. Price:40$
Short Review: You think SanDisk did something impressive? Wait till Samsung have had their say – they’re not bringing to the table just another drive which carries the name of a trusted and reliable firm; they’re bringing out a drive which carries their name, and two different USB ports. That’s right, this dual port drive has both USB 3.0 and micro-USB interfaces, and comes ready to plug-and-play on both desktop Operating Systems as well as Android. Android is a big deal today – as we discussed in our article on Operating Systems, it’s the most popular OS in the world today. Since there is a lot of overlap between the files you want in your phone and the files you keep in your PC (especially when it comes to media), a dual port drive is a good friend to have around. At first glance, this Samsung unit looks like a normal USB thumb, with an uncovered 3.0 interface and no cap, but on closer inspection, you’ll see that the “handle” part is actually a cap which goes over its micro USB port. The design is elegance in simplicity; to the point and with no complicated screw-on or twisting parts for aesthetic appeal. The drive is “5-proof” according to Samsung – meaning it is waterproof, shockproof, magnetic-proof, temp proof, and X-Ray proof, and all of that being covered by a 5-year warranty makes it doubt-proof to boot.
Top 1st – Patriot Supersonic Rage 2
USB Type: USB 3.0 Capacity: 128GB Warranty: 5 Year Color: Black & Blue Encryption: Yes Approx. Price: 57$
Short Review: What could top that? Well, how about a drive that, for starters, comes in capacities up to 512 gigabytes? Nope, that wasn’t a mistake, 512 GB, In a USB stick; Now you’d think that would be hellishly bad for transfer speed, but you’d be wrong. Oh, so wrong. Turns out, the Supersonic is named so for a reason – it has a Read/Write speed of 400 MBps/300 MBps, thanks to the MLC NAND memory and the powerful IC controller – that’s a 2 GB file transferred in mere seconds. Of course, for those who think that’s a little overkill, it has a 128 GB version as well. Performance like that, coming in the ultra-portable form factor of a 3.0 stick, should be no joke, and it isn’t. A soul-crushing amount of work has gone into it, making it both reliable and fast. At a weight of just 18 grams, this thing is a lightweight champion. It comes with a rubber coating for protection from the elements, and the housing effectively shields it from shock and vibration. The physical design is also an interesting one – a slanted cut at the bottom is the part where the inside of the drive becomes a slider: pull it back, and the drive goes into the housing, safe and sound. To use it, simply close the slanted bottom and the slider pushes the interface out into the open. It’s a cool variation on the traditional, design where the slide with the drive is usually full inside the external casing.
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