usb thumb drives

frankieB · Posted: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:57:01 Post Subject: usb thumb drives

I am looking around for a 64 gig usb thumb drive. I am wondering if there have been reviews including read / write access. In my research I have found, not shocking, lower priced drives with better pricing. I am looking for an online vendor that might list read / write as a sort able feature.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:08:51 Post Subject:

I have found some similar things... While I will always gladly go for a Kingston drive since they have always worked well for me - for (sometimes) less money I have been impressed with Team Group brand drives.

Newegg usually lists the read/write specs, but those are from the manufacturer. You should compare with 3rd party reviews for consistency.

For example - they have a 64GB Team Group drive with speed specs right in the listing by the picture...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820313216

$10 more for a slightly faster Kingston Drive...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239535

frankieB · Posted: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:23:29 Post Subject:

New egg was one of the sites that did list the read/write speeds, as you point out, on some of the drives.

fyi: I contacted there support and they could not provide additional details. I am going to have to factor in price over speeds.

Need to place an order for a few dozen and speed is a factor.

Thanks for the helpful information.

dotitab398 · Rated PG Joined: 05 Feb 2026 Posts: 3

I hear you â€” trying to find a 64?GB USB thumb drive with reliable read/write performance can be surprisingly tricky if youâ€™re basing things just on price. A lot of the cheaper drives will claim a capacity, but unless you dig into actual benchmarks or user?reported speed numbers, itâ€™s hard to know what youâ€™re really getting.

In my experience, what helps is looking at sites that do show real read and write numbers, even if they donâ€™t let you sort by it directly. Some tech forums and enthusiast benchmarks will test USB drives and post actual throughput results, which gives you a much clearer picture than the marketing numbers on a product page. Iâ€™ve personally been burned by a â€œfastâ€ drive that had decent read speeds but painfully slow writes â€” totally fine for media playback, but useless if youâ€™re frequently moving large files.

I donâ€™t know of many big online vendors that let you sort by read/write performance out of the box, but price comparison sites and tech review pages sometimes have that in sortable tables.

Have you come across any user?posted benchmark charts that focus on real throughput (not just advertised specs)? Those seem way more helpful when comparing drives at different price points.