32GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Pnstaw Swivel Memory Stick Thumb Drive Pen Drives Jump Drive for Data Storage, File Sharing(10 Pack,Multi-Color) (32GB)

I produce a program for a community radio station and turn in my show each week to the station manager. He prefers it in raw data form rather than on a CD. SD memory cards and USB thumb drives do get lost or broken and sometimes just quit working for unknown reasons. I needed a good supply of memory devices. I decided to try a 10-pack of Pnstaw 16GB thumb drives. The price was right, less than $4 per drive. And I dont have to worry about losing the protective end caps, since these have an attached metal shield that just swivels out of the way for connection to my computer. Theyre attractive, with the drive bodies coming in 10 different colors. In the short time Ive been using mine, they have functioned perfectly both reading and writing data. You can tell they are receiving power because they light up internally when connected to a working port. The drives arrived in a foam-padded cardboard case where I keep the ones Im not using. Now I have plenty of memory on hand.

I was looking for small USB memory sticks for pictures to share. This was just what I needed !!

You know youre old when youre trying to figure out what adapter will plug your iPod into your 2021 vehicle. Spoilers- just put your music on USB drives! These are great for keeping playlists straight.

I am using them for sewing purposes and they are exactly what is needed. You really dont need this big of a flash drive memory - but if I ever use them for other items - as this one was a part of a set, they would be fantastic for documents, pictures, etc. I would purchase again.

I like to offer my clients images or video on the spot at a shoot. This is the best way to insure I can do that for them.

Cute and functional

Out of the box (of 10) , these flash drives were formatted exFAT. I reformatted to NTFS and tested writing a group of files totaling 120MB and the time spent is 12+min! Painfully long for 120MB that takes under 40sec with a Sandisk Cruzer Glide 64MB formatted NTSF using the same PC. I retested with other flash drives from the box and reformatted NTSF and the result is the same! I subsequently initiated a return that is promptly handled thru the Amazon website. I was packing the flash drives for return today and suddenly Bulb! Maybe the flash drive controller cannot handle the NTSF file system? Correct! If you keep the exFat format these drives came with then transferring the 120MB group of files above is under 45sec which is practically OK. Also reformatting to FAT32 would yield a similar writing time under 45sec. I have not use these drives long enough to report their reliability, but surface testing with utilitie like Minitool Partition Wizard reported No Error. You may surface test in Windows Command Prompt Administrator with command CHKDSK /X /F /R, that I also did and it returned no error. In summary these drives work well with exFAT and FAT32 format but stay away from NTSF format.

Just what I needed. Different colors can be used for different categories of files.

So I used a couple of these for a solid year not really any complaints. I use them as boot media mostly, recently I opened one and it had a strange foreign name to the drive I didnt recognize, didnt look English. Thats where the problems start, half of the drives do not work, period. Its sad it took me a year to discover this. PC cant find them, they make themselves read only and can no longer use or them simply fail. Made one a windows recovery drive, except when I tried to use it, it failed midway and I lost everything. I would not buy these.

Correction: After testing the USB is 32GB formatted using FAT32, which gives an Insufficient Disk Space error message if the file to copy is over 4GB. After reformatting the USB drive to NTFS I was able to copy a 5GB file onto the drive.