• Reviews around speed (4.07 of 5)

    Silicon Power 8GB Flash Drive 3PK Ultima U05 USB 2.0, Blue/Pink/Black (SP024GBUF2U05VCMBT)

    • Great speed, size and price.
    • This powerful 3.0 speed is the only way to go especially at this phenomenal price.
    • I formatted it to exFAT and get the fastest speeds and the ability to store large files.
    • Great design and fast speed
    • The slow speeds I'm getting may be due to driver, or motherboard issues, but even with these "eh" speeds, its still a very good value for a 32 gigabyte flashdrive.
    • SLOW write speeds
    • Great price, speed and capacity
    • It's a great mix of super low price, fast USB 3.0 speeds, and simple elegant design
    • Had it for a week and it worked with pretty fast speed, not sure what happened but transfer speeds are taking forever
    • Great speed and size.
    • After ordering, and feeling like this drive wasn't much faster in my USB 3.0 vs USB 2.0 ports, I found a good site with comprehensive comparisons/ratings inaddition to a good speed test.
    • It would transfer at very slow speeds of 15Kb/s
    • Perfect price point and ridiculous speed.
    • The speed is incredible.
    • All three Silicon Power swivel drives I bought have extremely slow write speeds.
    • Fantastic speeds through my usb hub so far.
    • Product works nice and solid....has good transfer speeds
    • Wish the company could make some improvement of it....the speed is fine
    • The speeds are definitely better than a USB 2.0 around 5x faster
    • Great speed on USB 3.0 for the price
    • Based on all the positive lightning speed reviews on Amazon, I expected a lot better.
    • Really good, speed is excellent and the overall appearance is nice
    • hight speed, very good 3.0 and 2.0 flash 32 GB free, R/W 90 and 40
    • Very good read speeds compared to most of the USB 3.0 flash drives I've used, which are many.
    • It's certainly not the largest capacity, but the speed is decent, and it doesn't feel like it's going to melt when in use.
    • Exactly what I wanted, awesome speed, great price!
    • works with my mobo USB 3.0 port fast speeds was
    • Good so far, speed isn't as fast on my
    • NTFS gave the best speed, averages at ~14MB/sec
    • Pretty cool, feels solid and also has very good speed
    • , I can't say for sure what's broken where to get me these slow speeds.
    • Using Black Magic Speed test, I got about 128 Read, 48 Write
    • The speed is slower than USB 2.0.
    • Decent speed (I didn't benchmark this is just eyeballing
    • Best speeds I am seeing are around 30MB/s (read & write)
    • Super fast transfer speed and feels very well built
    • A POWERFUL MEMORY WITH AN EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE AND SPEED ON ALL
    • Very fast transfer speeds, and it really feels and looks expensive.
    • Solid design and structure with good speed.
    • Speed is much faster than USB 2
    • Fantastic speed, and ease of use based off the cap cover
    • Solid and fast speed,good for the price
    • Good speed and great value compared to other USB 3.0 devices
    • Finally found amazing speed!
    • Amazing writing speeds, like 100-120 MB/s.
    • Much slower write speeds compared to the same exact 32GB drive i bought about 6 months earlier
    • Working great so far - fast transfer speed!
    • The speed is very good and the physical size is perfect to carry in a key chain
    • Fair speed and good reliability.
    • first 3.0 sticks got so hot the plastic almost meltedfor sure this cant be good for the stick then the speeds where not as promised, some of them where big brand names like kingston, verbatim
    • Greta storage, blazing fast speed when using 3.0 port
    • Now that both my desktop and laptop computers have USB 3.0, I wanted a USB flash drive that could take advantage of the faster speeds that technology affords me
    • 3.0 speed is fast, and performs well without added clutter.
    • fine - speed was great - but I did not try to measure it directly.
    • Compact, stylish and fast speed by USB 3.0.
    • I like the overall design with the flip cover and as well the usb 3 speed
    • I got good seq speeds over USB 2.0 interface
    • Blazing fast speeds
    • The read speed is very fast around 120 MB/s in Ubuntu Linux and the write speed depends on Mother board BUS traffic (for me it was fast around 48
    • Sturdy, well-constructed, fast transfer speeds and ready-to-use.
    • I like the look of the drive and the read/write speed is above average for this usb flash drive pricing
    • Perfect functionality, 3.0 speed, awesome and solid design
    • Died after 6 monthsThe speed was fast and was able to use all formats, including NTFS.I was really happy, but not no more
    • Look very nice, reading speed is amazing, very fast
    • For the money, you get a very nice drive that has decent transfer speed and a hefty 32GB for storing tons of photos or music.
    • Great capacity, great speed, compact design.
    • Nice product, tons of space and very speedy upload/download speed.
    • Perfect price point and ridiculous speed.
    • Based on pure speed, the HDD was a bigger
    • Slow write speed
    • Data transfer is fast for both small files and large ones!Using CrystalMark, the speed is terrific!Using USB3Read
    • Great speed for a flash drive!
    • For the price not bad I was expecting better speed.
    • I've got other USB storage devices that claim to be USB 3.0, unlike those, this one is truly a 3.0 USB device; when transferring large video files, it does so at noticeably great speeds
    • Great speeds for the price!
    • Very good speed on a USB 3 port
    • Great design, NOT cheap feeling, awesome speeds.
    • the read speed is great, the write speed is very disappointing and 10 times less than other reviewers commented
    • Also the speed is crazy with the USB 3.0.
    • Fast speed !
    • Speed is much faster and more stable than my previous USB2.0 flash drive
    • The speed on this thing is great
    • Super fast transfer speeds, nice swivel design, and built in LED indicator
    • Good design and good speed
    • I like the speed of usb 3.0 and the fit and finish of the device, especially the 4-point metal swivel that clicks into each of the 4 positions
    • I use Linux Mint 17, and USB2 speeds are horribly slow
    • The one that does work has fast write speeds and hasn't died yet.
    • Nice sequential read speeds on the 64GB unit (180MB/sec).
    • Works well, read and right speed are relatively slow in comparison with other top models
    • Nice speed for the price
    • the read speed is great, the write speed is very disappointing and 10 times less than other reviewers commented
    • Very nice flash drive, decently fast speeds and 15 dollars for the 32GB is an amazing price
    • This has horrible write speeds for a 3.0, averaging around 7-10 mb/s
    • Have tried to format once more but still speeds are dismal
    • Great speed faster than i thought it would be, would buy again!
    • Great modern design, highest speed available, plus a lifetime warranty
    • Later, I uploaded 5GB worth of images off the same laptop and it was done with respectable speed
    • I don't have USB 3.0 on my motherboard either (2.0), so I find there complaints about "only 41 MB/s under NTFS" a little funny
    • Write speed is still somewhat lacking at around 37 MB/s, but not terrible.