ARCANITE 128GB USB 3.1 Flash Drive, USB Memory Stick, optimal read speeds up to 400 MB/s

ARCANITE 128GB USB 3.1 Flash Drive tested... Speeds the same as advertised. Actually faster writing for a few GB's of writing.. 300MB/s for a short time. Speed pictures attached.Claimed to be 128GB but this one was only around 116GB after formatting and the usual manufacturers messing around with bits/bytes. HD Tune Pro showed it was actually a genuine 124 GB

This is an excellent USB flash drive, fastest by far that I have come across.Write speeds sustained 125 MB/secRead speeds sustained 325 MB/s.This is using a modern PC with USB 3.1 with NVMe hard drive ( Intel NUC 8i3BEH).Using my 4 year old HP laptop which with USB 3.0 gives the same write speeds but for some reason the reads slow after 8 GB of transfer - not sure why this is it may be to do with my laptop .On my Mac Mini which is USB2 where it is hampered by the slow USB interface to 26 MB/sec writes & 37 MB/sec readsSo optimal performance depends upon your hardware.Screenshots attached

Great value pen drives that deliver good tranfer rates almost on a par with my sandisk extreme drives.

Blimey!This is one seriously impressive gadget. I’ve had a lot of trouble with USB 3 sticks recently; this seems to have nailed it.Background. I’ve 2 PNY 256GB sticks, now 3 years old, (one for music, one for films) plugged into the stereo and TV respectively, and got around 20-50 MB/s write speed copying multiple files over. They work perfectly/reliable.When I needed a couple of new sticks for general use, for high capacity, PNY seemed the obvious choice for 256GB, and any other ‘known’ brands would do for 128GB and smaller.For reference, USB 2.0 low capacity sticks I had knocking around achieved about 3-4, or 4-7 MB/s, and a Kingston 3.0 ‘Datatraveller G4, 8GB’ managed 7-10 (all tests using the same data, a 2GB sample of hefty music files).A Sandisk Ultra 3.0, 32GB, managed about 25-30, so OK. But a new PNY 256GB (that looked the same as the ones I already had) took ages to get started, then crawled along at minimal speeds (talking sub-USB 2 average here). So PNY have definitely changed something.A Kingston 128GB ‘Datatraveller 100’ just kept stopping and starting – when it went, the speed was a decent ca.50, but your average would never hit that. Other users (of various 3.0 drives) have reported this stopping/starting behaviour, and it’s apparently something due to ‘caches’. So why then do the old PNYs work, and the new 32GB Sandisk?Reformatting exFAT, FAT32, NTFS made no difference. Same behaviour both my PCs (Win 10, Win 7). Changed settings on Win 10 for optimal performance…nothing.Then I got a 128GB Arcanite. Preformatted as FAT32 (supposedly the worst), I got a write speed of 100-120. And my PC is ancient.Hence, the PNY and Kingston are going back. And I might get some more of these Arcanites, maybe try the larger capacity models.I’ve never had a failure with USB sticks (and I’ve got some over 15yrs old) which I put down to the lack of moving parts. So I’ve no reason to doubt the Arcanite there, either.EDIT: For larger volumers of data, say a write of 8Gb plus, I found it slowed down a bit, but it's still faster than the competition.

Am using this with Windows 11 installed so I can boot from the key and not destroy the Windows 10 install on the PC. That's very handy if your PC has a problem and can't boot for instance.All is good and read speed very consistent 400MB/s, twice as fast as a HDD.Windows 11 runs reasonably well, haven't tried Win10 yet.For twenty quid it's amazing VFM.

Arrived today and I did a speed test to see if the stated speeds were accurate. The read figures actually exceed the manufacturers claims and while the write figures are excellent I believe it's because of the cache filling up. Transferring a larger 30GB file the write speed levelled out at 60 - 80 Mbps which is pretty good given the pricing. I was transferring to / from a PCie NVME which is fast. Overall it's good value for money providing it it has longevity.

Neat and tidy, this USB stick is by far and away the fastest in both Read and Write speeds I've seen using my USB 3.0 ports on my MacBook Pro.A real 370 MBs read and 170 MBs write are excellent, and stunning value for money as far as I'm concerned.I bought the 128Gb stick and was so happy I've followed up and bought the 256Gb one too.Well recommended.

Surprised I'd never heard of this company before, as this USB is pretty good. 128G was pretty good value for the size, and the physical USB stick feels solid. I expect it'll last a long while.Though on the other hand, my machine is picking it up as USB3.0, not 3.1. Doesn't affect me much though, and it could be a bug on my machine. Would need someone else to confirm.

Clef rapide, dommage que les clefs ne disposent plus de led pour vérifier leur fonctionnement surtout en clef bootable...

I purchased the 128GB version.Pros: It performs fast with both read & writes. I measured an average of 350 MB/s read over various size files. The write speed performs best with larger file sizes about 350-370 MB/s, with many files 1-5MB sizes the write speed was high for the first couple hundred MB then slowed to as low as 55MB/s. I never saw a speed less than 55MB/s to/from this drive. Well worth it. I will buy again if I need another one.Cons: Separate cap easy to misplace, but it does clip on with a positive click though. So not really bad.Many of the bulk USB keys say fast speed but only imply the read speed; that almost always means the write speed sucks.

Der USB-Stick ist schön handlich und sieht neutral aus.Es gibt ein kleines Loch, um ein Band durchzuziehen und ihn so z.B. am Schlüsselbund o.ä. zu befestigen.Laut Hersteller soll er bis zu 400 MB/s beim Lesen und 100 MB/s beim Schreiben erreichen.Im kurzen Benchmark-Test (CrystalDiskMark) erreicht der Stick bei mir knapp 431 MB/s beim Lesen und extrem starke 225 MB/s beim Schreiben - er übertrifft die Angaben hier also massiv!Schreibt man den kompletten Stick am Stück voll (Dauerbelastung; getestet mit H2testw), ist der schnelle Zwischenspeicher irgendwann voll. Aber selbst dann pendelt sich der Stick bei soliden 72,6 MB/s beim Schreiben und 359 MB/s beim Lesen ein. Zudem hat der Test bestätigt: Der Speicher ist echt und fehlerfrei.Für große Dateien wie Videos oder Dokumente ist er damit perfekt geeignet. Ein richtig starker Stick für einen fairen Preis - klare Kaufempfehlung.

Dudaba que me fuera a aguantar películas de 4k pero me sorprendió funciona muy bien pasa los archivos rápido o eso me pareces más que mi disco duro la verdad lo e usado varias veces para ver películas en 4k y la verdad que muy bien el precio lo considero aceptable me compraría otro seguro no se calienta nada y funciona muy bien hace su función la única pega es que de 125g se queda en 119g de almacenamiento

PCの内蔵環境を変更せずにWindowsをもう一個起動する必要が出たため、手持ちのUSBメモリでWindows To Go環境を差くせしていてみたら、USBメモリ作成に24時間かかり、PCは延々と起動しない事態になりました。高速なメモリは大事！大急ぎで128GBの製品を注文、これがとても速く、内蔵SSDと比較してそれほど遜色なく作業できます。USBメモリ作成が10分くらいで、起動が体感30秒くらいです。お値段も安価ですし、大正解だと思いました。おすすめです。（耐久性はわかんないですけども）