We're never short on interesting new gadgets here in the HEXUS labs, but despite living and breathing all-things cutting edge, you know what we really appreciate A well-made USB 3.0 flash drive.

If you have been around APH Networks for a while, you will notice we frequently talk about our history. Why do we like to talk about our history Is it because, as Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana puts it, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

We've had a lot of USB flash drives pass through our offices and deep down I have a soft spot for them. They are small devices than can pack a punch in terms of capacity and speed and lately we've seen a whole host of different designs that are exciting that market segment just a little bit.

Elite and portable, but does it have the performance We test the latest flash drive from ADATA.

This USB flash drive does not work and appearing as an empty disk drive, also the Disk Management reports "No Media" with 0 bytes size; this mostly happens due to poor controller or cheap memory. Not that I used it extensively, max 40-50 times in last 3 years.

Great drive reasonable price

Excellent Flash drive; Very fast Benchmarked at 192MB/s Read and 84MB/s Write

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I'm getting great speeds from this flash drive at around this is the fasted flash drive I've ever owned. I'm quite happy with the price, read and write speeds. Read speeds are around 185mb/s – 190mb/s write speeds are around 40mb/s – 50mb/s. The drive is quite reliable for storing data.