The price for this size flash drive was great at the time, as it rivaled the price of those being offered which were only USB 2.0 compatible

The ADATA S102 Pro usb 3.0 flash drive is super fast, at a good price

This drive is VERY fast and has VERY good build quality for a VERY good price

Great 3.0 USB for a cheap price

Even though 16GB is a bit much for OS X and Windows 8 installers, the low price of the 16GB drives was hard to pass up.

2.0+Small/Elegant (smaller than expected judging from the pictures)+Aluminum/metal housing (high quality, but over time may show wear)+Decent weight/heft to it (enough to feel it in your hand, light enough for a metal usb drive)+Discreet labels, nothing fancy-No LED/activity indicator (may be a pro/con for some)-Cap feels slightly thinner than expected, gives a bit of a cheaper feel to it (may wear out over time, and start coming off)I got this for $26, and at that price it's highly recommended for 32GB, but at the current price ($30) it's difficult to justify $1/1GB pricing almost, especially when there's plenty of alternatives available for much less.

Good feel in hand, nice solid aluminum with a slick titanium finish

I was looking for a drive that would have the solid feel and speed of the Kingston drive but a higher capacity

Works as advertised, great transfer rates and the body has a nice solid feel to it

I love the solid feel but nowhere to labe what is on the flash drive

I won't bother leaving transfer speeds but the design is good

I use it a lot, it has a nice finish design and nice size as well.

Great speeds and design got 110 read and 40 write speed

I can't complain about the speed, I like the design (a little too

Design is a little cumbersome to use (the barrel is a little slick and can be difficult to remove the cap from the USB plug)

But every thing else is good, the quality and speed is very nice.

Great build quality and super fast transfers with USB 3.0...

Great build quality and not like those typical plastic USB's

It's fast, good quality drive although not every computer support USB 3.0

This drive is VERY fast and has VERY good build quality for a VERY good price

I lost my previous USB 2.0 flash drive, so I figured it was time to upgrade to a USB 3.0 compatible drive

Just as advertised, this is a nice speedy USB 3.0 flash drive

Pros:USB 3.0 is faster than USB 2.0Cons:It's not as fast as I expected it to be

Overall, a cheap, great, fast, and voluminous USB 3.0 drive.

After using a USB 3.0 flash drive I will not purchase any more slow USB 2.0 drives.

If you have a computer with USB 3.0 jacks you'll enjoy the faster transfer rates.

Also doesn't get hot which had me worried as I was debating which flash to buy

This drive has the best transfer speeds of any USB drive I've ever used

Good transfer speed when used on a system with a 3.0 port and a SSD.

Very fast transfer speeds on a USB 3.0 port and good speed on a 2.0 port.

This is an inherent disadvantage of cheap flash storage, and is in no way unique to this drive

All in all, this is a good, but not excellent flash drive.

Terrible flash drive, will die in a few weeks or a couple months at most

and they are all good, but this guy is as good as it gets and for the money, a really good flash drive

My ADATA is probably the freshest-smelling flash drive around

This is a funny shaped memory stick, that works faster than a usb 2.0 stick, but not much in my opinion.

great little USB stick, works great, has good solid speeds with usb 3.0 even on usb 2.0 seems to be go faster than most of my old 2.0 sticks

It's a very sturdy little usb stick, and it doesn't look bad either.

I do expect a smaller stick to be a little slower, but this is quite a huge difference

This stick looks great, works great too but have capacity only 59.3GB

Constantly disconnects from my computer and has slower speed than my USB 2.0 drives from PATRIOT!!!

Very fast transfer speeds on a USB 3.0 port and good speed on a 2.0 port.

Great speeds and design got 110 read and 40 write speed

The write speeds for the 16 gig model are actually quite poor while the write speeds for the 64 gig model are decent for the price

But the write speed in all categories is pretty sad everywhere except sequential write

I have purchased this product recently and don't recommend to anyone

Very nice and good product, the price and quality are equal to each other

This product was disappointingly slow, really, really slow - barely faster than the USB 2.0 stick

Every once in a while a great product comes around, and this is one of them!

The price was great for the excellent product I received.

Other than that, it works as advertised, it's not big (tall, so if you have stacked USB it sucks)Doesn't have a LED on it, which is strange, but not a big deal for me

the speed is faster than most thumb drives but at the same time it isn't as fast as advertised

Also doesn't get hot which had me worried as I was debating which flash to buy

This was disappointing because of the false advertising, and it is a little more than a gb less than what it should be.

Works as advertised, great transfer rates and the body has a nice solid feel to it

Second one has very erratic read/write rates, with read rates sometimes dropping to zero.....very poor net speed performance

First one started failing with first use (USB disconnect during sustained writes over a few minutes, i/o errors, etc) -- verified on two different computers.

Great specs and performance for the price of lesser devices.

Flash drives, especially more value-oriented ones like this Adata drive, tend to have great read performance and pretty dismal write performance

I love the construction and performance, as well as the price of course

Cap is easy to lose, drive itself isn't too sturdy; after just a few weeks of being in my

My only grouse is that you can lose the cap if you do not keep an eye on it

The cap can go on both ends of the stick, so hopefully I won't lose it

The only thing that I don't really like is that the top cap is loose and easy to lose.

The drive itself is very solid and the cap can be attacked to the other end so it doesn't fall off

Oh well, time to leave Adata; there are now flash drives for less money that are larger, faster, and (based upon reviews) more reliable.

I have unplugged and plugged them in with no problems more then 5 times

if you have trouble with making bootable flash drives, adata has worked every time for me.

I do not recommend you waste your time with this drive; it is precarious and unreliable.

Again, ran ADATA USB Flash Drive Online Recovery (V2.0.8.12) with failure this time.

The cost of this is almost similar to the cheap plastic ones

They do not use the cheap plastic like many other USB keys

Unfortunately, carrying it around on my key chain all day scratched the plastic up badly and

Very solid construction (except for the cheap plastic cap,

I haven't uploaded much to it yet, but all of my files are backed-up on it and it runs just as fast as when I first got it

Only one smal disappointment - no status light, hard to understand if its working or not.

Also doesn't get hot which had me worried as I was debating which flash to buy

Only one smal disappointment - no status light, hard to understand if its working or not.

It's missing an LED status light and you can lose the cap since it's detachableOverall

and they are all good, but this guy is as good as it gets and for the money, a really good flash drive

No compatibility issues to date (though I work with Linux machines are try very hard to deal with Windows or Mac boxes)

I use Macbook Pro Retina and maybe there's some compatibility issue b/w Mac and the drive?

BUT they are 2.0, sometimes have compatibility issues with car USB ports (new 2014 Caddy XTS as an example), not easy to use on a regular basis and don't hold a candle to the feel/finish of this item

I have an asus board that was one of the first boards to start using 3.0, so maybe it's just a compatibility issue

I use Macbook Pro Retina and maybe there's some compatibility issue b/w Mac and the drive?

No problem ghosting hard disks to this drive in FreeDOS or flashing firmwares and BIOS files either.

but I put this together to compare flash storage and regular hard disk.

so I bought a Crucial 64 gigabyte solid state hard disk drive 64 gigabytes because It was all I could afford, and sure enough It ran out of

I mean, let's be honest and know that on a standard hard disk drive laptop or desktop, it's not going to be anywhere near as fast as the USB drive's maximum

so I bought a Crucial 64 gigabyte solid state hard disk drive 64 gigabytes because It was all I could afford, and sure enough It ran out of

Really 4.5 stars because cap is a bit loose when you store on the non-business end, also the hole for keychain is tiny and curved, therefore difficult to access, but I'm on this page because I'm looking to buy more

Will see how the ADATA replacement does, though I'm a bit skeptical at this point.09/26/13 Update: upgraded one star to three star review as replacement device seems to be functioning as advertised

When copying a single or small file over USB3 like a word doc it is transferred so fast the window never even pops up that tells you its copying which can be a bit difficult to tell if you actually did copy it or not, downside of the speed

Formatted it and the issue hasn't happened again, but it makes me a bit skeptical about the protection of the data I store on it, so I haven't used it heavily.

I use Macbook Pro Retina and maybe there's some compatibility issue b/w Mac and the drive?