Are Micro Center Flash Drives any Good?

[chasefournier]

I know Windows prioritizes one drive over the other, but even when using solely the Micro Center drive the speeds are SLOW!

For those who don't know. I'm comparing the TSOP NAND Micro Center Flash drive, to an eMMC.

Most flash drive is nowadays use an eMMC.
Which as you can tell is Miles faster then older TSOP NAND.

The thing that frustrates me the most is that the Micro Center flash drive is "USB 3.0" but operates like molasses compared to a traditional emmc.

Also, there's nothing special going on in the programmer. It's just connecting the pins on the BGA eMMC, to a standard USB 3 controller. Allowing it to read and write via USB 3.0 just like the Micro Center flash drive.

Yeah, we are comparing apples to oranges. Because they are two different chips.
Being TSOP NAND vs EMMC.

Why is MICRO CENTER Still selling these USB 3.0 Drives? They are junk.

[TapticDigital]

Injection molded microcenter logo probably cost more than the NAND 😂

[andregross]

It doesn't matter how fast they are. They're cheap, and they're exactly what you need to store bootable ISOs without much fuss.

[Sentient_Sherman]

this feels like trying to compare gas station earbuds to proper headphones, like yeah it performs better, but was that not the expected outcome?

[derpydashdjblazekin]

These are usually the ones they give out free the new customers so I wouldn't really expect much out of them

[goosenotmaverick]

Moving videos to the "homework" folder. Excellent work 😂

[drums-bass-and-space]

Well, it depends on how you transferred the file speeds. You should always test them separately as if you try and transfer two files at the same time from the same drive to the same location or two different drives to the same location and vice versa. One of them will be way slower and it will mess with the speed. Also, Micro Center’s drives are way cheaper than whatever that Kingston Emmc is

[josephrumpsa]

To be fair, it's a $4 drive. If you just need some cheap storage to hand off some files, it's no big deal

[williamhill]

NAND flash by itself with a controller is generally slower than a HDD in sequential read and writes this is why most SSDs use or have some faster Memory to act as a cache improving read and write performance that's why you reader is probably faster

[cpyt]

I have some Microcenter 32gb full sized SD cards for my wii and 3ds, they work great and are pretty fast.

[nuperdotsite]

it’s just a souvenir for me because my nearest micro center is 5 hr away so it’s take forever to get there

[Aceofheartless]

Yeah sometimes I want like five cheap flash drives instead of one fast one thx 😂

[Flooph_YT]

I use those for my 3d printer, I’ve been using it for almost a year and I have been able to load over 100 3d printable models onto that thing

[jdogwin]

Oh those microcenter drives I always get for free lol they work usually I find them hit or miss

[YUH-MERICA]

I bought a few for something like win 10 win 11, Linux and other sorts of os installers

[swankshire]

I know a lot of usb drives are much slower on reads than writes. I had a 128 GB i had back in highschool. It was one of the first usb3.0 usb drives and not cheap. It would read at over 80mbps but would only write at like 10.

[Duck_side]

Did you really just compare EMMC memory to usb flash memory?

So basically you compared a speeding train to a pedestrian on a footpath

[that_weird_vtuber]

If you use the same file for the test the 2nd transfer is slowed down by windows to prevent corruption

[josearrasola]

Hello sir, I been following you and have noticed you have been using your EMMC a lot where do you get yours from ?? Thank you 🙏

[chillchinna]

Oh no. The flash drives they give out for free don’t stack up to the high grade alternatives? Colour me shocked, surprised, and even flabbergasted.