Samsung BAR Plus 32GB - 200MB/s USB 3.1 Flash Drive Champagne Silver (MUF-32BE3/AM)

Let me say that this has an amazing design. it is not clunky and gives a nice feel. this was pretty cheap (32g) and let myself transfer over 1k photos to the device. Sadly it dropped heavily and inconsistent for the next half of the transfer time . If you want top speed, look somewhere else. If you want a device that looks/feels great with mediocre speeds , go for this.

Looks good but so small its hard to handle. Also not easy to tell when its in all the way. I wouldnt buy it again.

Great usb for loading programs into CNC machines. (HAAS & HURCO 3-Axis mills) Also works on our Mitsubishi wire EDM machine.

Attached screenshot of benchmark. Added SanDisks Extreme (USB 3.0) and Extreme Go (USB 3.1) for comparison. Speed is top class. Exceeded advertised read speed (200mbps) but I will say that write speed is a bit lacking. However, to compensate for that, this drive has exceptional 4k read/write speeds compared to others Ive done. For those who dont know, 4k speeds are a good representation of how well your drive reads/writes many small files. Sequential speeds show how well a drive performs with a single large file (like a full movie). Drive gets barely warm after benchmark was completed. Can easily attach to a key ring to carry on the go. Would not hesitate to buy again! P.S. I bought Champagne Silver because I noticed Titan Gray s paint can peel off from the reviews, which looks kinda ugly. Appears Champagne Silver does not suffer from this issue.

The other reviews reporting fast reads but very very slow write speeds are accurate. and its very slick and weirdly shaped making it difficult to insert into a new and stiff usb port. I have dropped it or nearly dropped it many many times. never had problems like that before... how did they make as slick as a bar of soap in the shower?

This product seems like a lot of bang for your buck! It is VERY fast to download. It feels like a solid piece of metal in your hand and I have never had any issues with placing it in the USB slot on the computer (no struggling to line it up like some other USB inputs). I work with geospatial data that is sometimes very large, and this USB still has room to go! It is also much smaller than you would imagine and fits on my keyring very unobtrusively. My only recommendation/wish would be some sort of cap/plug for the UBS opening where all the connections are, to protect it better when its on my keyring.

I bought one 64GB and two 32GB Samsung BAR Plus USB drives. The 64GB stick came pre-formatted with exFat. The 32GB sticks came pre-formatted with Fat32. So they are ready to use immediately. Im pretty sure that if you wanted a different format (like NTSF) you could re-format them with whatever format you want (with your computer) although I havent done that. I do think they fit awfully tight into any USB 3 port I have used them in. Snug is good but I think this is overkill and it might even damage something in some cases. Thats the only complaint I have about them. On the Easy to use rating I only gave 3 stars because of this. Otherwise they seem really good. I like them overall.

So Ive had a metal kingston 16gb for a while. It was 2.0 and I realized now that all my usb ports are 3.1 I should upgrade not only the size but speed. While I might not be achieving 200mb/sec like it claims, I did see about 170mb/sec which is screaming fast compared to what Im used to. I do like that the keyring area is a bit thicker and feels beefy.

Samsung Bar Plus 32GB drive is a looker, theres no questions about it. It looks better than any USB drive I had. Its well made and compact (at the same time not being too tiny so its hard to plug-in/out or easy to lose) so that it wont obstruct any USB ports around it. Its great value. Then I compared it with my Lexar (L) S74 64GB drive (yes, usually the higher capacity drives will have higher speeds) to see if this uses USB 3.1 bandwidth properly. L drive in terms of looks is quite opposite of the Samsung Bar Plus. L is bulky, has brash colors, plasticy,... But speeds-wise, its a different story. Samsungs read speed is nearing twice as much as L (well, +60% to be more accurate) at ~224MB/s compared to ~140MB/s of Lexar. But, Ls writing speed is ~100MB/s, which is about three-times higher than Samsungs ~34MB/s. At least for me it does not make sense to have so high reading speed while sacrificing 3x writing speed. For regular work its better have balanced read & write speeds. TBH Samsungs 34MB/s is not bad for a cheap drive, and maybe fine for normal tasks (unless youre in a hurry :-D). Too bad Samsung didnt use the USB 3.1 bandwidth properly (probably due to cost factors). See the images for more detailed speed comparison. All tests were done on same PC, same port (and same conditions as much as possible).

My Samsung BAR Plus 32GB USB 3.1 flash drive provides a Read Speed of up to 200MB/second, and a Write Speed of up to 34MB/second, as many USB 3.1 flash drive manufacturers promise these days. But most USB flash drives fail miserably when one installs, say, a Linux Lite operating system, plugs it into a computer, and tries to run Linux on it. Most USB flash drives, even the USB 3.1 flash drives, and especially the compact ones, overheat, which slows those promised ultra-high read/write speeds to a crawl.. except for the Samsung BAR Plus 32GB USB 3.1 flash drive! The reason why the Samsung BAR Plus 32GB USB 3.1 flash drive runs cooler and faster is that the 1.53 (40mm) long metal case also functions as an efficient heatsink, that becomes warm to the touch when the Linux operating system is busy with videos, games, and such. And theres simply no way around that simple law of physics. I tried a few other brands of smaller, more compact USB 3.1 drives, that I could conveniently and permanently leave in my laptop USB port, but none of them could effectively run Linux. I highly recommend the Samsung BAR Plus USB 3.1 flash drive.