Top critical review
3.0 out of 5 starsGreat flash drive, somewhat tarnished by... tarnish. Edit: drive failure :(
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2015
Works great, seems fast and reliable.
Light weight, barely feel it on my lanyard. Quality construction.
The only downside is that it tarnishes very quickly. I have a key shaped, silver usb drive from a different manufacturer on the same lanyard. On day one, they were just about the same shade of silver. Weeks later, the key shaped drive looks like new, while the ADATA unit looks like very tarnished pewter. I actually like the look, but people who bought it for appearance may be disappointed.
I'd buy again, but the tarnish doesn't bother me.
Update: 1/19/2016
Well, this drive started to give me occasional problems a few months ago, where it would suddenly stop being recognized by Windows as a valid drive. I tried multiple usb 3.0 ports and it just will occasionally drop out. Tonight, this problem became severe, as I can't use the drive for more than 5-10 minutes, often less. Luckily, I purchased an even small, more tarnish resistant drive from Transcend a few months ago and was using it as a backup to this drive, in case it finally quit on me.
I've inspected the connectors and there is no issue I can see. I've tried plugging it in firmly, no change.
I noticed that the drive seems to be getting very hot after a few minutes of file transfers, the smaller Transcend drive does not show any heat issues. I'm wondering if there might not be some sort of short or other issue causing this thumb drive to overheat?
Not really worth pursuing warranty service at this point, time to trash it and move on.
I would no longer recommend this drive.
