It has fast peak speeds but it's sustainable write speed average is less than 1/4 that and it often hangs for a bit before surging again. Fine for smaller files but if you're copying large ones you won't be averaging anywhere near the rated speed.

Fast - True to their advertised speeds. Cool design.

Sliding body can get stuck on a corner of the USB connector sometimes and refuse to close.

For functionality, I trust the Supersonic's. They've been good for countless write/wipe cycles, never lose speed, and have never failed on me.

-Very nice design with excellent material feel, rubber grip, solid "click" when opening and closing the cover -Extremely fast for a thumb drive: over USB 3.0, I got a 150MB/s read speed (to SSD), and write speed of 40MB/s (if you have an ASUS motherboard, get the USB 3.0 Boost utility, it works with nearly all USB storage devices, and in this case increased the write speed to 96MB/s!)

-No lanyard -The cover doesn't prevent dust, pocket debris, or liquids from getting into the open USB contacts, just protects from drops onto hard surfaces

I have tried many different USB thumb drives from many companies over the years, and the only ones I still regularly use are made by Patriot. Never failed, even after 10 years of use, and faster than any other brand by a huge margin for less money.

We have tested and recommended this Flash Drive for installing Windows from USB. Many other USB 3.0 Flash Drives gives drive/partition selecting errors during Windows Installation.

Pick it up if you want speedy storage and to install Windows from USB.