ADATA Elite UE800 512GB USB-C USB 3.2 Gen2 Flash Drive Up to 1000MB/s Read/Write (AELI-UE800-512G-CSG)

I bought this to use with a PC gaming handheld, a Legion Go. Already type-C, easy to use with modern mobile hardware. Can use it with iPhone 15 or Android phones without an adapter. I expected that there would be speed degradation in sustained loads that would saturate any fast cache on the drive. That would be fine as all I wanted was something better than overpriced microSD cards that drop to like 10MB/s under any load. This at worst is like 80MB/s.The early burst will sustain about 1GB/s for a bit but then drop. Then it'll go to some troughs and peaks. Just now in my testing moving moving about 100 GB of data, it's mostly at 130MB/s and random moments of 230-300MB/s. That is better than I expected. Okay now it's gone down to 60MB/s. Now with videos maybe average size like 8GB moving over 100GB in total at a time, this maintains about 120-200MB/s through most of it. Maybe it too hot. Doesn't feel too hot to touch like some NVME in enclosures that I've felt. Flash drives are inconsistent than an m.2 in an enclosure but we pay for the size and convenienceSo much better and consistent than microSD cards in similar price brackets. Random read/write on my 1TB microSD card sucks compared to this in CrystalDiskMark. I'm playing games off this flash drive that on Steam, have files that some total to over 100GB. My microSD card has little load time hitches in games. This flash drive, so much better than a spinning disk. The glory of good flash storage and random access performance. Sure there's going to be modern games with DirectStorage that aren't perfect, but I've watched videos of the PS5 Ratchet and Clank on SATA3 drives and it's still way better than spinning disk.I approve of this flash drive. Black Friday 2023 2TB at $103

I have had this drive for at least a month now and its crazy fast and better than any jumpdrive that I have used including some top brand names.I use this for my Macbook pro and format it as XFAT and share files with my PC. Its easy to carry around and I had no problem with any breakage with the drive.Its great so far.Its huge storage with the 2 TB .Will get another one later on.

Nowadays phones have such little space, unless you get the more expensive versions with more capacity, so I bought this to be able to store all my pictures in it, it also doubles as a backup solution in case something happens.I'd say is fast, although the price is a little expensive in my opinion. It gets a little hot but not too much, I think it's normal, at least while using it with a phone (which is my situation)It does feel a little bit cheaply made, so only time will tell if it'll really last.

*******************UPDATE: FAILED AFTER LESS THAN 3 MONTHS!!!! ************************Just as my update headline reads, this thing failed on me in less than 3 months. I purchased this in November 2024 and it failed in February 2025. And to make things worse, I rarely used the drive. I loaded it up with several games, but only played them about 5-6 times since I made the purchase and installed them.It's so disappointing because -- as my initial review shows -- I was quite fond of the drive at first. But it's hard to love something that breaks so easily. My PC failed to boot one day and after unplugging USB devices one at a time, I found this drive was the culprit. I then tried to reinitialize it -- first on the original PC and then on my laptop -- but was never able to get it working again. Such a huge disappointment.************************* ORIGINAL REVIEW IN NOVEMBER 2024 ********************************This thing has been a beast for me. Check this out ...For $39, I got the 512GB version and was able to load it up with the following:-Far Cry 5-Far Cry 6-Bus Simulator '21-Doom-Grand Theft Auto VAll of this one one EXTERNAL drive, and I still have about 50GB remaining. All the games run great and load very quickly on my system. Whodathunk that five years ago?The main thing keeping it from being a five-star USB drive is the fact that the writes are very slow. As you can see from the screenshot, read speeds are typically over 1,000MB/s; however, write speeds usually hover around 200-300MB/s on the half-dozen or so times that I've tested it via CrystalDiskMark8 64. Now, in my case, once I installed all the games on the drive, it's not too bad as most of the work being done now is reading. But I wouldn't recommend this as a backup drive, or something that you do a lot of writing to, since it can be a little slow in that department.The case is also made of a cheap-ish plastic, but you get what you pay for. My advice? Stick it in a USB port, dumb some content on it, and never touch it again.

I bought this drive as an extension for my Meta Quest 3. It works great for most movies but, when REALLY taxing it with a 8K 180 foV at 60fps there serious buffering issues. It struggles a bit at 5K but anything below that its great.

Just tested the thumbdrive with CrystalDiskMark. Size is 1863 GiB (2000 GB), read speed is >1000 GB/s, write speed is ~970 GB/s. The case is rather flimsy, and the USB-C extender seems like it'd be prone to break. But as for the actual specs, they appear correct.