SanDisk 256GB Ultra Flair USB 3.0 Flash Drive - SDCZ73-256G-G46, black

I love this. Until now I used other sorts of USBs, the kind where you have to pull up or pull out to open and close. They used to stick out. This one won't break, I don't see it as being possible because it goes straight in without any pulling. The size is small enough that I can leave it in my laptop all the time and it doesn't get in the way.

What's convenient about this flash-drive model is that it is so sleek and small and carries just enough data storage that it's gotten me pretty far on my personal projects. Because I get out now and then I've found it a huge success when I use other computers. It can be really convenient when you need to store backup data. My only warning when using this tool is that it's easy to misplace because it's so small.

You sure can't tell how small this USB drive is by looking at the picture.Haven't really used it yet but it has been a major brand for years and I got it to transfer some files between machines. Should be good for that use.

Thought the 512GB was a counterfeit. But have proven it's not using simple tools that did write/read testing. For the most part, I got about 50-60MiB/s Write, and around 100-160MiB/s read, sequentially. Formatted (ExFAT/NTFS) it's about 460GB which has provisioning for extra spare blocks to lengthen lifespan and speed. Overall. I give is a 4-stars. 5 for being what they said it is, 4 stars for the slightly slow write speed. This is because the drive is fresh, and this definitely isn't NAND memory. Even TLC NAND is faster, but it may be adequate enough. For my wife, long-term photo storage is what I got it for, and it'll fit. Not only isn't small, but the relative storage size is huge, and cheap, and I can see this used for a lot of trading media or swapping out backups overtime cheaply. It's likely many degrees higher able to survive fires in a fire lock box than a hard drive, and tiny enough to throw on a keychain for imaging with something like ventoy or a quick and dirty linux/windows boot disk. It seems to be of decent sandisk quality, and time will tell, but maybe for a single or dual-disk raspberry Pi server, or even a server intenal boot disk for diagnostics/headlsess server, this is likely a great use for that. it's fast enough for a raspberri pi 4 and small enough to not be a nuisance. also great if you have a car that needs to offload dashcam footage like a tesla or some retrofitted car entertainment systems. It doesn't generate too much heat, even after me running full tests, and can be used as a quick and small OS X bootable disk if you are at a university with a lot of storage space. They seemed to have design some reliability thinking with the spare blocks being reserved, meaning it should last a long time. It should be able to do most file systems, but for FAT32, you may need to create a partition for that, but you can do a lot of 32GB FAT32 partitions if you need to, and reserve the rest for Linux, MacOS or Windows-based filesystems for bootable and other data seperate. Could be used to make a kiosk in public too with right tools while being able to hide it, or pull it quick.

Just get it. I've bought cheaper ones before that have had these issues:1. didn't match the capacity they claim to be,2. need to be formatted (sometimes formatting changes the capacity, sometimes it doesnt)3. corrupt your files so they're unrecoverable!! The worst. Many brands, many times.4. and even one that said it was 128gb when I originally checked it upon buying & 6mts later (without any use ever!) i finally went to use it says its only 28gb.... where did the 100gb go?!Idk how they do all that but every single one of the situations has happened to me 1 or more times with other brands. That is why I needed this one. This is a reliable brand & this price is affordable if you catch on a sale. Dont risk your important files to save a few bucks!ALSO PRO TIP - WATCH THE EXACT BRAND NAME! Many companies use similar names to trick you into thinking its the brand you wanted. My last one (#4) was a single letter different, an N instead of an M, fooling me.

I needed to transfer over videos, music and photos from an old busted laptop. So I went online and looked for thumb drives and was blown away at how inexpensive they have gotten. I remember it was big money for a 10 GB thumb drive, and they were rather large. This thing holds 256 and is tiny. Like I'll probably lose this thing tiny. Anyway I have copied just about anything and everything onto this drive and I still have space for more. For the price you can't go wrong with his thumb drive. It's from the brand scan disc so I knew the bill quality going in was going to be superb.

I'm giving it a 5 star because it was good but came really late like really really really really late it came so I ordered it in like October and it didn't come and tell yesterday which was I believe the 12th so April 12 2025 and I ordered that right near the six months ago so yeah I was just letting you all know that it's because Amazon lost it and then it's not their fault but they did lose it for one of us

Came packaged well, and I was able to plug it in and use.