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A fast, small & efficient flash drive.

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2015

Older USB storage is woefully outrun by this small key-chain-able drive.

The three attributes I was looking for:

Sturdy:
I can throw in the briefcase / purse and not worry about bending, breaking, or getting pulled off the keychain. The construction is completely of metal and is the size of the USB plug itself. There is nothing exposed to get hurt while living on your keychain (though I'd gather dunking it in water may compromise its utility).

Size:
I carry this everywhere so I have access to all of my files around campus. It is smaller than my keys and is exceptionally light weight. Unlike the previous USB drive, this one IS so small it does not feel like it is there getting in the way of my keys when I'm fumbling at my office door.

Performance:
I show some youtube clips for class and some of them are quite large. I only have 50 minutes for class and don't want to be waiting for a video to load. Also, there are times when I've found the perfect example of X or Y just before class and have 2 minutes to move 125mb from my computer to the drive. The previous drive would take 4-5 minutes (yep that one was old!). This drive accepts 125mb in a matter of seconds. As for the amount of space, I have yet to fill up the 16gb from the previous drive, so I stuck with the 16gb as the price point was just right.

I'd highly recommend this drive. It does not come with any metal keychain loops and the hoop through which you attach it to your key ring is somewhat small so you may wish to invest in a tiny keyring to attach it to your larger loop.

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Mid-pack performance, poor design for a keyring

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2016

The Transcend JetFlash 710S offers decent performance, and doesn't get too hot, but it's poorly designed for use on a keychain. The end with the opening is inexplicably bent upward which prevents it from laying anywhere close to flat against a typical key on a keyring. It's not as bad as the much largerSamsung 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive (MUF-64BA/AM)but still awkward. The performance, as you can see in the attached screenshot montage, was mid-pack with relatively slow read speeds around 87 MB/s but decent write speeds around 71 MB/s. TheSamsung 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Fit (MUF-64BB/AM)offers much better performance but won't fit securely on a keyring. TheKingston Digital Kingston Digital 64GB DTMicro USB 3.1/3.0 Type-A Metal Ultra-Compact Flash Drive (DTMC3/64GB) (DTMC3/64GB)works better on a keychain but has horrible write performance. And theSanDisk Ultra Fit 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive (SDCZ43-064G-GAM46) [Newest Version] doesn't offer anything worthwhile unless you value its ability to perhaps melt the USB port in your computer it gets so hot.

So, in summary, if you don't need it on a keyring, get the Samsung Fit instead. If you do want it on a keyring, and can live with really slow write performance, consider the Kingston instead. Otherwise keep looking.

For the geeks out there, I did all the testing on a motherboard USB 3.0 port (not a hub) on a fast i7/SSD desktop system with nothing else running or sharing USB 3 resources.

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Kevin

A fast, small & efficient flash drive.

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2015

Size: 16 GBColor: SilverVerified Purchase

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Nick E

Great low-profile option for Tesla Sentry-cam storage drive

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2022

Size: 32 GBColor: SilverVerified Purchase

Transcend 32GB JetFlash 710 USB 3.1/3.0 Flash Drive: $10.99 at the time of review

I was an early adopter of the Model 3 electric car from Tesla. I pre-ordered mine the very first day I could and waited a couple of years for delivery. And you know what? I LOVE it! It was worth every minute of wait and penny of the price. After a little while Tesla enabled the built in cameras to be used as a dash cam to protect you while you drive. But in order to use it, you have to plug a USB drive in to store the video files.

I chose this drive because it is tiny. I didn’t want the drive I used to stick out too much for fear that something in that compartment would get stuck on it and break it. Well, I got what I asked for. This little fella is *tiny*

*What I liked*:

As I just mentioned, it fit my desire for a tiny little drive that didn’t take up too much room. It only stuck out like ⅔ of an inch!

It worked perfectly for my needs. I just stuck it in the USB port and the car recognized it, formatted it, and started to record to it on my first drive after install.

*What I didn't like*:

Honestly, the only thing I didn’t like about it was the storage capacity, and that’s not its fault. As it turns out I should have just bought the 64GB version.

*The Bottom Line:*

This is great drive to record videos to in a Tesla. It’s also tiny enough that if you wanted to keep it on your keychain to have a portable drive, you wouldn’t even notice it’s there. For just over $10 bucks (or just under $15 for the 64GB version), this is a total five stars out of five. I’d definitely buy it over again.

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Obi Wan

Works great in my car stereo

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2016

Size: 16 GBColor: SilverVerified Purchase

Works exactly like it's supposed to.

I use it for the stereo in my car. It gets very hot, but that's normal for a flash drive. It does not get 'melt the dashboard around it' hot. And it's very small so it' not in the way at all. It sticks out less than a half inch from the USB port.

Just to make sure a had a good one and neither a defective unit or a fake capacity drive, I tested it using a utility called H2testW. You can download this utility after a quick google search. What it does is writes single bit data to the disk in 1 GB file increments to totally fill the disk to capacity. Then it reads that data back to make sure the data isn't corrupted or missing. This lets you know if someone has taken a smaller 4GB disk and slapped a 16GB label on it and hacked the control chip so it looks like a 16GB drive when it's actually 4GB. This is much more of a threat with larger capacity drives like 128GB and up, but it's always worth checking anyway just to know for your you have a real 16GB working device. See the screen shot below of the readout from that test.

In that testing this drive had sustained write speeds of about 13 MB per second and sustained read speeds of about 73 MB per second. This test was run in a USB 3.0 port. While the 13 MD per second write speed isn't Earth shattering by any means, it's good enough to write songs to the disk one time to be left in the car. The 73 MB per second read speeds far exceed anything you'd ever come close to needing for MP3 playback, even at higher bit rate encoding.

UPDATE

I have now bought the 16GB and the 32 GB versions of this and they both work great and have tested as authentic.

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P.K. Frary

Tiny, tough & fast but runs hot

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2014

Size: 64 GBColor: SilverVerified Purchase

The JetFlash 32 GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive is an itsy-bitsy stainless steel fob. The fob loop is too small to fit aircraft cable or even the smallest S-Biner clip. Only an ultra thin keyring can be threaded through it. I cockroached a wee ring off an old Micro Photon light and attached that to an aircraft cable ring and S-Biner.

I put the JetFlash through its paces and this is the fastest flash drive I've owned. It's my first USB 3 stick but it certainly buries my old SanDisk 2.0 and LaCie 2.0 sticks, feeling more like a SSD than a flash drive when copying RAW image files and video from my iMac's USB 3 port. It mounts and dismounts lickety-split.

The gotcha is it gets hot when mounted in my iMac or a USB 3 hub. I don't recommend leaving it mounted for extended lengths of time: upload/download and pull. I use it in a Dyconn hub with on-off switch, switching it off when finished. My other flash drives get slightly warm but never hot. I suspect the tiny size isn't as efficient at dissipating heat as larger designs.

There is a lot to like about the JetFlash: tough, tiny, cute as a button and blazing fast. I dislike that it runs hot. Nevertheless the JetFlash is my main carry and holds and transfers my files like a champ.

02/15/2015 UPDATE: It's been about 18 months and still going strong. I recently found out, although it runs hot un USB3 hubs, it's merely lukewarm in USB2 hubs.

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LazerLord

Good little drive, Doesn't overheat.

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2016

Size: 32 GBColor: SilverVerified Purchase

Seems like a great little flash drive. Fast, tiny, and I haven't seen many overheating issues like with most small USB 3.0 drives.

I won't post the benchmarks here, but you can see a screenshot of the results at the end of this review. During the 16GB test, the drive did heat up during the sequential read/write section. From touch, I would estimate the temperature of the drive to be about 45C during that section. For electronics, I consider this to be warm, but by no means anything I should be concerned about. I would say that it throttled, though. During the first test, which was a 4GB test, the write speeds were very high; 78MB/s. But in the longer test, this was much lower at 31MB/s. I consider this to be a good thing, as I'd rather have my drive last longer than be fast and overheat. Full benchmarks in the photo section.

Also, I really liked the packaging. It was very easy to open, as it was just perforated cardboard on the back of the packaging. I have a picture of this posted.

I found a key ring to put on it, and yes, it has to be a thin one or else the ring will be a bit tight, but the one I found works just fine with this drive.

For the price, this is a really solid drive.

If anything happens in the future, I'll post it below here.

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Mid-pack performance, poor design for a keyring

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2016

Size: 64 GBColor: SilverVerified Purchase

The Transcend JetFlash 710S offers decent performance, and doesn't get too hot, but it's poorly designed for use on a keychain. The end with the opening is inexplicably bent upward which prevents it from laying anywhere close to flat against a typical key on a keyring. It's not as bad as the much larger Samsung 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive (MUF-64BA/AM) but still awkward. The performance, as you can see in the attached screenshot montage, was mid-pack with relatively slow read speeds around 87 MB/s but decent write speeds around 71 MB/s. The Samsung 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Fit (MUF-64BB/AM) offers much better performance but won't fit securely on a keyring. The Kingston Digital Kingston Digital 64GB DTMicro USB 3.1/3.0 Type-A Metal Ultra-Compact Flash Drive (DTMC3/64GB) (DTMC3/64GB) works better on a keychain but has horrible write performance. And the SanDisk Ultra Fit 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive (SDCZ43-064G-GAM46) [Newest Version ] doesn't offer anything worthwhile unless you value its ability to perhaps melt the USB port in your computer it gets so hot.

So, in summary, if you don't need it on a keyring, get the Samsung Fit instead. If you do want it on a keyring, and can live with really slow write performance, consider the Kingston instead. Otherwise keep looking.

For the geeks out there, I did all the testing on a motherboard USB 3.0 port (not a hub) on a fast i7/SSD desktop system with nothing else running or sharing USB 3 resources.

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Ray

Who Says that Large Storage USB 3.0 Keys Need to Be Expensive?

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2015

Size: 64 GBColor: GoldVerified Purchase

This miniature USB 3.0 key is quite good, when one considers the cost. It is small enough that you have to be careful about loosing it, and so I assume most people will put this on a keychain or a lanyard, etc, because if you stick it in your pocket, it may well get lost. It has no moving parts, which is a real plus, and it fits snugly into your USB port (no slop or play in the fitting). At 64Gb, its large enough to do a lot of things with, and at its price point, it really cant be beat. Transfer speeds are very good on read, and reasonably good on write (my Black Magic Speed test reports about 38Mb/s on writes, and about 60 Mb/s for reads).

Note, too, that, if you are buying a device of this storage size, you are probably planning on copying lots of huge files to it, and that can be a problem due to the limitations of the FAT file system. The solution? Easy. Just format the stick as "exFAT," and you'll be able to copy files of nearly any size to it, and both Macs an PCs will be able to read them.

So, comparing price, storage size, transfer speed, and a one-piece design, this is an easy five star item.

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T. Eddy

Excellent drive

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2018

Size: 32 GBColor: SilverVerified Purchase

I use this for Pioneer XDJs (digital turntables). While I had issues with other drives after a couple hours I’ve had zero with this one. May end up buying a couple more.

Pros
- 32gb size is the largest that can be “natively” formatted as fat32 in windows, which is what these XDJs require
- all metal case dissipates heat
- no cap to lose
- the eyelet is offset which makes it easy to tell which way is up so none of that try one direction, rotate and try other direction, rotate and try the direction it was when you first tried but now it works.
- usb 3 speeds which make transfers from pc go fast (the XDJs just use USB 2 so it doesn’t care)

Cons
- the eyelet at the top is pretty flat and would be hard to get on a keychain on it’s own. I solved this by getting a small (approx 1/2”) split ring I put on this and then attached to keyring with a small s-biner that locks closed
- short (can be a plus or minus) which in my case makes it more difficult to keep track of and I’m always worried I’ll lose it. It’s not as short as others where it only sticks out 1/8” but it still only sticks out 1/2” maybe at most. Would have preferred it to be a bit longer to have better heat disspation and be easier to notice. At least it doesn’t cost much to replace.

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Peter Riley Osborne

Perfect for my Allen & Heath QU-24 board

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2023

Size: 32 GBColor: SilverVerified Purchase

I have run into a lot of issues with my QU-24 and trying to record live tracks from the board with a USB drive. Often the USB drives get corrupted and don't work, or the brand/type I get is never recognized, or even that they start to skip.

These little work horses are perfect and have never had problems after a month or two using them. They reformat well and have been nothing but ideal for my need. They are also a pretty small form factor, so putting the lid down on my mixer for protection doesn't require removing it from the board.

I highly recommend these for any storage use, but especially if you are recording tracks from a sound board using a USB input.

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Luka Anicic

Great USB storage device with a minor flaw in its design.

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2015

Size: 32 GBColor: SilverVerified Purchase

Pros: As a portable USB storage device, this works perfectly. Read/Write speeds are as advertised and formatting it to work with your operating system is a breeze and takes very little time. Mounting it the first time resulted in no response from the OS, but who knows, maybe I didn't plug it in correctly? However, it's been working fine since. This aspect of the USB drive works perfectly now.

It is built extremely well and I feel that it's dust/shock resistance is a real statement to it's build quality - I believe it after dropping my keys with this thing attached quite a few times. Nothing seems cheap about the construction, considering the price, however the laser-etched logo on one side is a tad blurry, not that you want to be staring at a logo while using it. It serves its purpose as branding and if this is what helps keeps a great product like this stay cheap, by all means, keep doing it. Faster read/write performance would be a key area of interest for me.

Cons: Now to a negative, and the only negative: it's keychain functionality. Unless you have a perfect circle (and I DON'T mean the keychain's loop that from its construction, I mean the actual width of metal going through the loop of the USB drive), it stands up right and will not move unless you move it to a thinner part of the ring. It can make for uncomfortable juggling your keys in your pocket, as well as sometimes even making it difficult to grab one of the keys themselves. This isn't a deal breaker for me, because having storage on you at all times is useful. I just wish there was more real estate for keychain rings to move around without a secondary, smaller key ring to remove the problem.

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