I wanted to get this so I could easily connect my phone, pc, or mac to the thumb drive without worrying about needing a adapter. This has a ton of memory for me to store pictures, files, and videos on. It is also nice because I am able to connect my phone to this and transfer photos off of my phone to free up space. It is also a nice device to store videos so I can watch videos from this thumb drive rather than storing it on my phone. It will also work for thunderport on mac but you may need to format the drive in order to transfer to the mac. This is NOT a thunderport device so it will not utilize the full thunderport speed. If you are using it with your mac, it will transfer pretty quick to and from the device. This thumb drive is pretty decently built although the metal is a bit easy to scratch. There is no slot for key ring or lanyard which is a bit of a bummer. You are able to open the cover to use the type c port. The cap is connected to the thumb drive so it is hard to lose. The cap is pretty solid so it will not just pop off on its own. I do wish the USB port cover was the same. This is a pretty thick thumb drive so it may take up more than one slot. The price as well is pretty reasonable for a thumb drive of this size. The cap is nice because now there will not be any exposed plugs. The case is easy to get scratched up though. Overall this a good flash drive to have if you happen to need to empty your phone or even transferring data between devices via type c. Please note this is not a thunderbolt plug but it will work on a thunderbolt port. It has plenty of space so it can store a good amount of pictures. I do wish it had some kind of key ring slot as you can lose this drive.

This drive comes in an attractive package. The device itself is nicely designed with a solid metal build and feel. The drive has two-end connectivity, one side USB-C with a swing open cover and the other USB-A with a neat magnetic cover. Performance was fast both for USB-C and USB-A. With many manufacturers starting to switch to only USB-C connectors for external devices, this external drive is a good choice for mobile devices, laptops, and desktops.

These devices are great and this one in particular is really fast. It reads and writes at around 500 MB/s (average) which is good enough for me. The capacity is quite good at 256GB. But you should remember not to keep filling it full and then deleting everything. The more that you repeat a fill/delete cycle - the quicker the USB drives life will expire. Fast USB drive at a reasonable price 37 bucks. Super Fast USB Drive. HIGHLY RECOMENDED! AAA+++

256G Smartphone and PC OTG SSD USB Drive, USB3.2 Type-C and USB-A Dual Connectors Solid State Flash Drive, 2 in 1 USB3.2 Flash Drive, Super High-Speed Type C USB Drive,ylmrav The flash drive comes attractively packaged in a gift-worthy box that is enclosed in shrink wrap. The only information on the outside other than the sticker identifying the product is a red sticker in the middle of a black field, noting that this is 256 GB. The drive itself is a metal cover on both ends, one with a magnetic closure, holding the cap on the USB3 connector, and the other is a levered fold-out cover on the USBC connector sideInsertinfing the drive into my laptop, windows recognized it immediately, and properties showed that there were 238 GB available and that it is natively formatted in the exFAT partition format. The decrease in available storage is normal with pretty much any storage drive because once its formatted, the formatting takes up a certain amount of space. I make a practice to reformat any flash drives that I use, just to make sure that the format structure is 100% and that there are no program fragments from any previous testing. Interestingly, enough, when I did the reformat, windows notes that this drive is natively an NTFS default structure, which Im going to format it to, and then format it back into exfat because that covers more types of storage systems. This drive should work well for my phone as well as a computer and will make transferring data between the devices easily done. Transferring some sample data from my laptop to the hard drive seems to move at a pretty fast rate, starting at about 300 megabits per second, which I think is pretty good. The metal cover is quite sturdy and gives it a good look. The magnetic cover on the USB3 side makes a secure ‘click’ when closing it, but there is no tether or place to keep the cap when the drive is in use, so you’ll need to take care not to lose or drop the magnetic cover [as I did, into shag carpet, making it a chore to find]. The levered cover on the USBC side folds out of the way for insertion and stays with the unit.

This USB flash drive came in a fairly nondescript black box, with no branding on the box or the USB drive itself. I tested with a few different utilities, and it does appear to have 256GB storage. In addition, my speed tests show that it does come close to the 500MB/s read AND write speeds, as advertised. The flash drive itself has a little bit of heft to it. The cap for the USB-C side is not removable and has a swing mechanism design. The cap on the opposite side for USB-A is removable but is magnetic which makes for a satisfying connection. I used both connectors to connect to multiple PCs, Android phones and tablets, iPad Pro, and a MacBook Air with no issues.

Thumb drives are still getting larger & larger every day, but this 256gb size is a really great size now in my opinion for PCs & Macs or phones with USB-C. Big enough to hold quite a few HD 1080p & even 4k movies & shows, or just tons of various files but not SO large that it breaks the bank! This drive is neat. VERY well made & its USB-C OR USB 3.0 whichever you need or prefer. Transfer speeds were lightning fast & steady the whole way for very large files through the USB-C port and still good & stable through USB 3.0 but the speed did drop off a good bit through USB 3 on large transfers. No drop off at all through USB-C. USB-C speeds were nearly 400 MB/s from my internal SSD to this drive. No noticeable heating up of this drive either. One of the better flash drives Ive had in some time.

There are two sides to the drive. The smaller connection has a cool hinge design that allows the top to be removed and stay out of the way without losing it. The regular USB end just has a removable cap, which is also called a losable cap. Why in the world would the same hinged cap not be used on both ends? Thats frustrating to me because I will 100% lose this little cap. I know, its in the product description, but I just assumed there would be some sort of cap retention like a small tether or something. For that reason alone, I am hesitant to use this drive. But it works great as far as portable drives go.

Just as advertised and as a rather skeptical person, I found it much nicer than I was expecting. I knew in advance it is a rather large drive, yet was not expecting such a smooth well designed case; an impressive design using a solid feeling alloy which likely helps disperse heat too. The drive is extremely fast and comes pre-formatted as exFAT with 238 GB of available space according to Win11. I tested it with AJA prior to reformatting, and it returned great results; 475 write & 510 read using USB-C. My requirements for this required it be formatted as FAT32 which was done with Ridgecrops FAT32 Formatter. Typically Windows cant format drives over 16 GB as FAT32, so if you have this need you will likely have to use a 3rd party tool too. I re-ran the speed test again, and although not as fast, it still returned great numbers (312 write & 505 read). If youre able to access it as exFAT I highly recommend you stick with that, for that does not constrain individual files to a 4 GB cap like FAT32 does. The cap that covers the USB side of this drive is held tightly in place magnetically which I really like. The cap on the USB-C side pulls off and swings out of the way so as not to be lost; both are well designed with a matching metal finish. Since I will mainly use the USB-C side, at first I wished it also had a removable magnetic cap. Though after some reflection I think the swing away design is probably better, for that cap will normally be off and Id be sure to misplace it. That said, most laptops will need the USB-C cap to be swung upward, or the weight of your laptop will resting on the cap; which would not be good for your port or the drive. I included a picture of it swung down on my Acer gaming laptop to show how it extends below the level of the laptop if it were not resting upon another laptop. This drive will spend 99% of its life connected to a 3-port USB-C hub being used by my Anker Nebula Capsule 3 Laser projector, and for that this is perfect. After loading it up with content it had no problem recognizing it and playing files thru Android TV without any issue of hesitation. The only thing that could make this better is for Anker to update my projector so I can go back to using this with exFAT; fingers crossed. I highly Recommend this drive, based on its reasonable price, solid design, large size and blazing speed.

If you have large files then this is the USB for you! Fast file transfer and compact!

The drive is small, easily pocketable and fits in the small pocket of jeans. The product photos shows text printed on the drive but the drive I received has none, its a nice clean silver finish thumb drive. There is no hole for attaching a lanyard. The cap for the USB Type A port attaches to the drive magnetically. The drive casing and cap is metal so should be fairly durable. The metal also helps to dissipate heat when the drive is in use, it gets hot but not burning. When plugged into a Windows 10 PC, the drive was auto detected and already formatted. The drive is able to reach the advertised speed when used with a Type C port. The Type A port was slower but not by too much.