INLAND Micro Center Super Speed 64GB 2-Pack Ultra Flash Drive USB 3.0/USB 3.1 Gen1 Memory Stick with Keychain Thumb Drive Photo Stick Jump Drive

I’m extremely impressed with the INLAND Micro Center SuperSpeed Flash Drives! The 128GB capacity on each drive offers plenty of storage, perfect for all my files, photos, and backups. The USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 speed ensures fast transfer rates, saving me time on large file movements. I love that the pack includes five drives, making it easy to organize different projects. The included keychains are a nice touch, ensuring I don’t lose them. These drives are reliable, durable, and an excellent value for the price. Highly recommend for anyone in need of reliable and speedy storage!

When I lived near a Micro Center, it was my go to. Now that I moved, I haven't been able to visit a store in a few years. I always liked their house brand stuff. It's cheap and always just works. No bells and whistles. Just solid, functional products. Now I can keep USB drives for OS installs without having to keep swapping a single one.

I have had good service from Microcenter flash drives. Considering the reasonable price, I almost always buy that brand.

I've been buying these little Microcenter sticks regularly since the 32gb variants were $70, and that was a bargain back then. They continue to get bigger, and are still cheap! Luckily, they're cheap... Because that's mostly the appeal. You'll see a lot of reviews complaining about speeds, and others glowing about speeds. Here's the breakdown on this: it depends. Silicon is not a perfect process, there will always be variations. In my attached pictures, you'll see very different numbers for the different capacities.. And guess what? If I had multiples of the same capacities, you'd likely see similar variations between the "same" drives.. Because no two pieces of silicon are going to perform the same. When you pay more for a thumb drive, you're paying for a process known as "binning", where the company only uses silicon that meets certain specs they're going for. Inland (manufacturer of the Microcenter drives), as far as I'm aware, uses the "rejected" silicon of other companies. "How awful!", you're thinking... But it's really not. A lot of the time, there's nothing at all wrong with the silicon, it just didn't meet the original manufacturer's standards. It's why these sticks are so cheap, and usually why the performance varies so wildly from stick to stick.There are many technical aspects of these I can dwell on, but basically, these are relatively awful devices, but at awfully excellent prices. I've been buying them for years, and while performance is laughable, I myself haven't had one die on me. I've felt like I'd die waiting for some transfers to complete, but the sticks themselves keep going. Even my $70 32gb stick back from 2009 is still going. I use it to bootstrap a mini computer that lacks an HDD. This, again, is all wildly variable... You may have it die on you, or you may have excellent luck, like I've had... But that's really how all products are these days. Sad but true. Luckily Microcenter will swap it out for you if it messes up.I will ding these one star for the controller. The Phison chips choke easily. If I'm writing to a drive at all, reading is out of the question. These things cannot read while writing to save their lives. So if you're planning on running a live OS on it (such as making a Linux stick), these are hard to recommend for that purpose. Even downloading a small file, it can cause the system to go unresponsive for upwards a minute at a time while the controller figures out what it's actually doing.So to sum up, for movies, music, documents, any typical daily usage, etc.. These are fine little sticks. They are terrible for live OS purposes. They've been reliable for me, and the performance is going to vary from stick to stick. If you need something more consistent, by all means, pay more.. But for most of my uses, these are my workhorses.Update: 2/10/21: still going strong. Have purchased more of these since this review, and no issues. My original 32gb stick from 2009 finally died, but it was physical damage from me accidentally snapping the plug off of it when it was plugged in. Almost 12 years out of a "cheap" stick is quite impressive, and I wish I could've seen how much longer it would have gone had I not broken it.Amazon is recommending I make a mention of storage capacity (as "advertised", though keep in mind the overheads. 256GB will not actually be 256gb, as roughly 15% is overhead. This applies to all drives)Amazon also recommends I mention "ease of use"... It's a thumb drive. They all work the same way. Plug em in and put stuff on em.And finally, Amazon recommends I mention "warmth", and this is a recommendation I agree is worth discussing. I never even considered it an issue until I was looking at other drives to serve as a boot drive, and indeed, these drives do emit some heat when under load. It's noticeably warmer than it would be when idle, but never a cause of concern. I wouldn't bother mentioning it unless I was asked about it, as it never seemed abnormally warm.

These are exactly what I needed to install multiple versions of software on multiple machines. They have two features that make them excellent in this service.(1) they have a large flat surface that's ideal to stick a label, saying what's on the stick(2) they flash brilliantly when accessed. You have no doubt when the BIOS is accessing them.They are slow to write, but that's ok in this service. They read somewhat faster, fast enough so I have no complaints when installing softare. I have purchased more than 20 of these. They are cheap enough to give away to friends. I've never seen a read or wirte error. In my experience they are flawless.

Good for storage, no issues found but transfer speeds could be a bit faster in my opinion.

Works fine.

Had used these before. They are a convenient size, and the throughput speed makes them usable as a boot drive for utility use.