while certainly not as fast as hard disk to hard disk copying, for a quick and easy backup..this is hard to beat for the price!

This drive is also recognized as a standard hard disk, rather than a removable drive, and SMART reporting works.

good scan disk quality zero issues one year later

BEWARE that your flash drive may not act like other flash drives since SanDisk made this one to report itself as a hard disk drive and not a flash drive, and that may cause issues

while certainly not as fast as hard disk to hard disk copying, for a quick and easy backup..this is hard to beat for the price!

It will appear to Windows 7 as a hard disk drive with various flash drive properties such as "ReadyBoost" and "Quick Removal".This design is why the SanDisk Extreme is so fast

It reads as a hard disk drive, not removable storage

the ones still in the factory may still come as a "Hard disk".

transfering data from usb 3.0 ports consistently exceeded 100 MB/s, and from usb 2.0 ports around 35 MB/s

nothing like the advertised 190 MB/s which should have taken about 150 sec, or say 3 min

Not 190MB/s, more like 101MB/s, but still fast

I had bought the SanDisk Cruzer 64 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive (SDCZ36-064G-AFFP) and was getting a pathetic 5 MB/s write speed

very fast,up to 180M/S

Read is just as fast (or faster).Many other brand drives claim "up to 100MB/s transfer rate" but that would only be read rate, and you end up with is a dismal 20/30MB/s write rate

Its 185 Mb/s is top 5 in writes behind Triton etc

Extremely fast (over 100MB/s as far as i've seen) and functional

But slower than the maximum reads and writes, 209 MB/s of Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ hard drive(1 TB, 10,000 rpm, SATA 6 Gbit/s)