Patriot Memory Supersonic Rage Elite USB 3.1 Gen. 1 Flash Drives - 256GB

I tested this USB drive against my old 64 GB PNY USB 3.0 drive using a disk performance app and it blew it out right of the water for sequential speed - for both reads and writes. This thing blazes along - it is so much faster than my old drive. It also "dips" in speed noticeably less than the old one when copying data across. For around £40 it offers huge capacity and great speed. Copying files from my laptop to desktop and the reverse is now a relative pleasure. I have encrypted it and this slows it down a little, but not much.I think this is a great value-for-money purchase and I heartily recommend it as one of the best value tech buys I have yet made.

I thought I’d try this as I’d purchased something else that was supposed to be an SSD that had rave reviews- utter rubbish.Anyway this has blistering transfer speeds. That’s all that needs to be said. I will be purchasing some more. I’d highly recommend this Rage 2 USB flash drive.

This device will only give really fast file transfers when connected to a usb 3.2 (or better!) port. Anything slower and you just get normal usb 3 speeds. Good value for the capacity anyway!

Works fast , works in both PC and Mac. I use only ExFat system, because I have both PC's and Mac laptop computers. Small size, not slippery.

I am pleased with the item as it met my reason for buying it.

I bought this to backup my collection of mp4 films I've been converting from blu-ray and the speed of this stick far far surpases anything I've used before and writes at well over 200MB per second often hitting 300MB per second when writing from my SSD on my laptop. The biggest limitation I have now is my laptops HDD which maxes out at 120MB per second and that's where most of my videos live :)The only way to get faster external storage would be to put an nvme ssd into an external caddy, overall a very very good flash drive deserving of the USB 3.0 Labeling.

When I bought this usb stick it was working great, good read and write speeds, it has a nice shape to it and looks very sturdy, however, this usb stick, after only 3 weeks of regular home use it stopped working. Says its write protected and memory available is 0. Tried formatting, clear partition attributes, among other things and the result was always the same, couldn't write or read from this usb stick. When I contacted the seller they just sent an automated email redirecting me to Patriot support website. When I buy something from any seller, I expect to have support for the duration of the warranty, 3weeks is not the warranty date limit. This has never happened with any other usb stick I ever have bought and I've bought a few in the last 15 or 20 years.Can not recommend this pen to anyone, not reliable and the seller completely useless in providing help to solve the problem.

I have bought two of these now. They are so quick to load stuff onto. The memory capacity is better than others at the same price. Love this item.

I've bought the Rage2 before in 128 GB to 512 GB sizes and always was pleased. It has one of the fasted writes on the market and so far none has died on me. So I trust this 1TB flash drive. I was able to copy about 45K files ranging in size from 1K to 2GB, over 350GB total, in less than two hours from 512GB Rage2 to 1TB Rage2 Elite!Some reviews comment the drive is too slow. I'm not an expert but I do know we can't expect SSD speeds from a flash drive. Apparently too, each file read/write access requires a certain overhead so copying a lot of small files will take more time that a few huge files. I reviewed the differences between my flash drives. Both used exFAT format but the 1TB had allocation unit sizes (minimum file size increment per file) twice as large as my 256GB drive, 256KB vs 128KB. So the same data on my smaller drive takes up more space on my doubled capacity drive.My speed copying large 2GB files was about 220MB/s. That's not as fast as a Samsung T7 USB 3.2 (300MB/s) but much faster than a Samsung EVO 256GB Micro SD card (70MB/s). This 1TB drive shines with storage of large files but if you're storing lots of small files then probably this is too large speedwise for you.Don't be fooled by unknown brands. Most advertised huge memories for ridiculously low prices are actually lower capacities falsely formatted. Also, many of the real brands don't advertise their write speeds because they're not as fast as this one.

I can see there are a ton of excellent reviews and also a good sized handful of bad ones for this drive. I will share some knowledge and my own experience.First, most people don't know that USB drives and also SSD drives slow down, when they get warm. You can research this for yourself. It's just the way flash memory works. SSD drives inside large desktops have fans and air circulation, which helps.USB drives don't have this. They are stuck in a small plastic or steel body, with no ventilation. So when you see reviews like "It was going fast and then it went slow".. that's why. This doesn't mean all USB drives have the same amount of thermal throttling, but they all do in their own ways.I purchased this drive because every day, I need to back up my creation content. Large 2GB Photoshop files, video editing folders, and animation files. It's usually a 4GB to 8GB transfer from my PC's internal SSD drive. Keep in mind this is also done through a USB HUB, which is not optimal at all. But it's easy for me to reach and use.Previously I was using a reliable 16GB USB 3 drive and it was good, but I just wanted something to go twice as fast (as the lowest speed being 20MB/s) or more, have way more space, but not have to pay too much. I was used to seeing 20-60MB/s with my old drive.I copied one of my regular work folders (4GB approx) mostly with large Photoshop files and a couple hundred photos and the transfer speed was 55-90MB/s. Excellent!! That's all I wanted. Time savings. I wasn't expecting it to be the fastest drive ever, just something twice as fast as my old one.When I did a test file copy of a single 1GB Photoshop file it was 180MB/s dropping down to 100MB/s near the end of the copy. Very excellent! This also proves, that different backup file types, amounts and sizes are going to not going to have the same result. But it saves me time.I did one last test copy of 130GB which had 26,000 files. This time the results were different. Being a very long copy, it started at 150MB/s and then after about a minute, it started slowing down obviously. It would bounce up and down between 40 and 75MB/s for the entire copy. This didn't surprise me at all. And again, it was still twice as fast as my old USB drive. It saves me time and I am happy with my purchase so far.There are a ton of variables with USB drives that most people don't know. It's not their fault. But expecting any USB drive to always blow your mind for speed for every single scenario isn't realistic. The main benefits of a USB drive is, they are extremely small and make your life safe and secure for back ups. They are easy to give to someone. But they will not be as fast as a large SSD.For anyone looking for the fastest possible speed for transfers, you have to move towards using a USB 3.2 Gen 2 NVMe M2 SSD, inside an aluminum enclosure with a fan. And that enclosure has to be plugged into a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port. They are going to be larger than a USB drive, more expensive and there has to be a USB 3.2 port involved, which many computers simply don't have unless they were made after 2018. This just isn't an option for many people and won't be for a long time.

Quizá sea consecuencia de haberlo formateado como NTFS (reteniendo la partición MBR), pero el caso es que es rapidísimo. Lo uso en un Mac Pro 5,1 con Thunderbolt 3 y Paragon NTFS para macOS, conectado a un concentrador USB 3.1 y va como una bala. Nada que ver con dispositivos USB 3.0 formateados como exFAT.

Ya venía de una Rage 2 de 256GB que se me quedaba corta y este modelo de 1TB no defrauda, me ha dado mediciones de escritura incluso por encima de los 300MB/s en un puerto USB 3.1 Gen 2, aunque la media es de unos 220MB/s que igualmente es impresionante para un Pen Drive.

Read 430MB/s Write 350MB/s位で速いスピードはUSB3.1端子でもパソコンにより大きく変わるので目安にしてほしいSSDやUSBの色々なメモリーと比較してSSD並みの速度と判断してます直近では RAGE Patriot 128GB USB3.0 は speedy 128GB USB3.1 とほぼ同じ速さアクセスランプ付きがうれしい欠点は今回の商品は1か所セクター不良があったチェックはChkFlsh.exeとh2testw.exeでテストしてエラーが出たセクター不良がないのが一番だが、液晶でも半導体のセル不良があるのでHard Disk Low Level Format Toolでエラーのセクターを使わないようにして使用しています