The boring little USB is certainly seeing quite a lot of innovation at CES. After Kingston’s ultra high-capacity 2 TB thumb drive, we have another high-capacity USB, this time one which also has the speeds to go along.
SanDisk’s Extreme PRO USB 3.1 Solid State Flash Drive may not have the most legroom at 256 GB, but it is the first to achieve SSD levels of performance, in real terms read and write speeds of 420 MB/s and 380 MB/s, respectively.
Can Transfer 4K Movies in Under 15 Seconds
According to Kingston, that kind of speed will allow you to transfer an entire 4K movie in under 15 seconds when plugged in to a USB 3.1 port.
It supports SanDisk’s SecureAccess software which allows 128-bit encryption and password protection of files. It has a metal design which can conceal the port when the USB bit is not being used.
The USB will be priced at $180 for 256 GB worth storage. There will also be a 128 GB version which will retail for $80, which will make it accessible to quite a few people.
One of The Fastest Memory Cards in The Market
Other than that, SanDisk also launched the Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card, which is one of the fastest available in the market.
The 256 GB card offers transfer speeds of up to 95 MB/s while also bringing read and write input-output access per second (IOPS) of 1500 and 500, respectively.
The result of this will be that apps installed on the memory card will behave just as briskly as the ones installed on the phone. The card which will launches later this month will cost $200 a pop .
‘According to Kingston, that kind of speed will allow you to transfer an
entire 4K movie in under 15 seconds when plugged in to a USB 3.1 port.’ dont you mean according to sandisk??
yeah coz they dont review their posts before publishing them like they used to do it earlier
well said……
That made me read the whole article to see if SanDisk & Kingston are the same..
It’s usb 3.1 in the same way it’s usb 2.0. The performance indicates usb 3.0/3.1gen1, not 3.1gen2. I get better performance from a 2.5in ssd in a cheap usb 3.0 case. This isn’t innovation, it’s fluffy marketing.