Made sure to buy from Amazon directly to avoid the risk of getting a counterfeit one.

Used for putting series and movies on motorhome TV for when can’t get any signal in remote areas.

Overall very pleased.

My major reason for purchasing the item was the physical size of the thumb drive. It’s basically smaller than the first segment of your index finger [about half of it, actually]. This can mean if you are fussy about fitting it into a USB slot [because there is not much to ‘grab’ the drive by, other than the rump at the end that sticks out like a cushion], this is probably not for you. I find it tactile enough that this isn’t a problem, but could end up being a pain in the ~~~ if you were trying to slot this into a USB port somewhere awkward at the back of the computer. I cannot tell you if it has exactly the standard of a 32GB USB drive since I have not tested it’s exact capacity [sorry I’m lazy], but based on what else I’ve got stored there, I see no reason to doubt it. Someone else’s review will hopefully conduct a full memory test. However I can say the transfer speed thus far checks out, at least on USB 3.0 ports. So for me, I wanted a drive I could carry easily and anywhere, didn’t require much memory as it’s mainly for transferring Office/PDF documents, and do so very quickly, very transferably, and with no fuss. If you’re the same, this is the item for you. But I feel it should be 1/2 cheaper. I think it’s too expensive for what it is.

Have tried a number of low-profile USB sticks in a 2021 Audi A4, either they didn’t work at all or were unreliable both in the car or plugged into a Windows laptop(Kexin).

This barely sticks out so virtually no chance of breaking it. Works every time I start the car.

Transfer speeds good.

The actual USB socket feels a bit fragile (plastic) and it gets hot when transferring large amounts of data.

When I first plugged in to a Windows laptop, my Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse stopped working. I moved the USB stick to the other side of the laptop and the keyboard and mouse sprung back into life

It stores data. It is small. It works. It gets hot when in constant use because it is small and cant get rid of the heat like a larger casing would. Thats it. Oh, and it is the specified storage it claims to be. Update. When i said it gets hot, I understated how hot it gets. If used in something like an Nvidia shield media box it gets very hot. Even with the shield in standby for a few hours, removing the usb thumb drive it is hot enough to the touch for me to be concerned with its life expectancy. It is above warm and the exposed metal portion that plugs into the device is genuinely hot to touch. So if you are buying this for occasional use and intend removing it from whatever you have it plugged into after use, then it’s a good thing in a super small form factor. But, if you intend having it plugged into something permanently that accesses it regularly? I would suggest a larger metal cased usb device that can shed any excess heat easier. For reasons I can’t explain, plugging it into a usb hub, then the hub into the shield brought the temperatures right down on the thumbdrive. But to be fair, USB thumb drives are rarely designed to be used like a hard drive for constant access, so maybe thats just users expecting too much from a solid state thumb drive.

This is a very small thumb drive, in a limited market of other weeny wonders. Thumb drive itself – what an odd expression, by the way, they’re less like thumbs that, I don no, an eight-block standard building brick of Lego – is a total misnomer. thumb-nail of a big toe / size of half an entire little toe is more accurate if unusably long and weird to say.

I have gripes with the rainforest-river-named company and these products. Like why they list shedloads of 15 “982Gb” drives that are obviously scams. Or why when I type in 1Tb as the guest search term, the only real ones – all 4-5 of them – are on page 6 of the results, and all 100+.

The main gripe is that I am part of the Apple universe, I fought it but it happened and I am grudgingly happy with the results – if a lot poorer. So I use USB-C, the last letter standing for compulsory.

And there are no mini/tiny/hardly sticking out one Lego block’s size USB-C drives. If anything they’re longer and lumpier than the A ones, with A and C ports. Thanks to the last paragraph I don’t need a usb A no more, and prefer a smaller drive so my MacBook doesn’t look like it’s innards are falling out and being glued back on badly.

I’ve read about it’s because the A port is easy to make and the chips small enough to basically fit inside the big ol clumsy interfacey bit. But I don’t care. I’m sure any good engineer could make an even tinier usb c only half-thumbnail drive, if any of the shyster random-letter named scam companies who sell them on here actually employed anyone apart from sweatshop workers and a random name AI company.

But they don’t exist, anywhere, not even for stupid % markups. And us MacBook owners have proven people will spend silly money to companies that make things nice looking and smaller yet functional. Hell, the function can be compromised almost comedically, as Apple’s janky useless broken keyboards proved, and iPhones that bent if you tried to tie your shoelace proved.

So this USB A drive, old and the wrong colour, in a 4 USB A-C converter, is smaller than anything else. That proves how capitalism is a broken system.

But until then Sandisk make thaw reliable (ish), stylish (as good as it can be anyway) and not-eye-gougingly expensive v small drive. I’d love it in a 1Tb flavour. And as usb-c only variety. And would ask all the JYHBDHGGGL-type companies in whatever sweatshop-city they’re in, go on I’ll pay 10 more than a normal one of these if smaller and usb-C only, promise.

Until then, c’mon Sandisk, make a small C-only thumbnail drive please and thank you? 1Tb. Then I can get all my er, historical movie library on one of these and make my MacBook look 10% less Back to the Futurey.