Supersonic Rage Elite USB 3.1 Gen. 1 Flash Drives - 256GB

I tested this USB drive against my old 64 GB PNY USB 3.0 drive using a disk performance app and it blew it out right of the water for sequential speed - for both reads and writes. This thing blazes along - it is so much faster than my old drive. It also "dips" in speed noticeably less than the old one when copying data across. For around £40 it offers huge capacity and great speed. Copying files from my laptop to desktop and the reverse is now a relative pleasure. I have encrypted it and this slows it down a little, but not much. I think this is a great value-for-money purchase and I heartily recommend it as one of the best value tech buys I have yet made.

I bought this to backup my collection of mp4 films I've been converting from blu-ray and the speed of this stick far far surpases anything I've used before and writes at well over 200MB per second often hitting 300MB per second when writing from my SSD on my laptop. The biggest limitation I have now is my laptops HDD which maxes out at 120MB per second and that's where most of my videos live :) The only way to get faster external storage would be to put an nvme ssd into an external caddy, overall a very very good flash drive deserving of the USB 3.0 Labeling.

This device will only give really fast file transfers when connected to a usb 3.2 (or better!) port. Anything slower and you just get normal usb 3 speeds. Good value for the capacity anyway!

OK, so 461GB of actual user space. formatted it to NTFS (quick format). by default it comes with FAT formatted USB 3.0 port:- i transferred a 49GB single MKV (4K hdr) movie file on in 7 min 22 secs read off the same file back onto my hard drive in 5 min 43 secs I backed up all my pictures/videos of various sizes , total 278GB - 21,272 files - all i know is it took hours!

Having used others and found many fakes, i am very please with this drive, the physical appearance is an acceptable plastic feel of good quality, performance wise when connected to laptop with an SSD, the transfer rate is 220MB/s writing to the usb and 340MB/s reading from. The fastest drive ive come across for the best price, and i see the 1TB has also now been announced, recommended !!

I thought I’d try this as I’d purchased something else that was supposed to be an SSD that had rave reviews- utter rubbish. Anyway this has blistering transfer speeds. That’s all that needs to be said. I will be purchasing some more. I’d highly recommend this Rage 2 USB flash drive.

Wanted it for my TV. Now I can record and pause shows. My TV needed a fast USB stick and this fits the bill. No issues. Planning to buy another one for general use.

When I bought this usb stick it was working great, good read and write speeds, it has a nice shape to it and looks very sturdy, however, this usb stick, after only 3 weeks of regular home use it stopped working. Says its write protected and memory available is 0. Tried formatting, clear partition attributes, among other things and the result was always the same, couldn't write or read from this usb stick. When I contacted the seller they just sent an automated email redirecting me to Patriot support website. When I buy something from any seller, I expect to have support for the duration of the warranty, 3weeks is not the warranty date limit. This has never happened with any other usb stick I ever have bought and I've bought a few in the last 15 or 20 years. Can not recommend this pen to anyone, not reliable and the seller completely useless in providing help to solve the problem.

I can see there are a ton of excellent reviews and also a good sized handful of bad ones for this drive. I will share some knowledge and my own experience. First, most people don't know that USB drives and also SSD drives slow down, when they get warm. You can research this for yourself. It's just the way flash memory works. SSD drives inside large desktops have fans and air circulation, which helps. USB drives don't have this. They are stuck in a small plastic or steel body, with no ventilation. So when you see reviews like "It was going fast and then it went slow".. that's why. This doesn't mean all USB drives have the same amount of thermal throttling, but they all do in their own ways. I purchased this drive because every day, I need to back up my creation content. Large 2GB Photoshop files, video editing folders, and animation files. It's usually a 4GB to 8GB transfer from my PC's internal SSD drive. Keep in mind this is also done through a USB HUB, which is not optimal at all. But it's easy for me to reach and use. Previously I was using a reliable 16GB USB 3 drive and it was good, but I just wanted something to go twice as fast (as the lowest speed being 20MB/s) or more, have way more space, but not have to pay too much. I was used to seeing 20-60MB/s with my old drive. I copied one of my regular work folders (4GB approx) mostly with large Photoshop files and a couple hundred photos and the transfer speed was 55-90MB/s. Excellent!! That's all I wanted. Time savings. I wasn't expecting it to be the fastest drive ever, just something twice as fast as my old one. When I did a test file copy of a single 1GB Photoshop file it was 180MB/s dropping down to 100MB/s near the end of the copy. Very excellent! This also proves, that different backup file types, amounts and sizes are going to not going to have the same result. But it saves me time. I did one last test copy of 130GB which had 26,000 files. This time the results were different. Being a very long copy, it started at 150MB/s and then after about a minute, it started slowing down obviously. It would bounce up and down between 40 and 75MB/s for the entire copy. This didn't surprise me at all. And again, it was still twice as fast as my old USB drive. It saves me time and I am happy with my purchase so far. There are a ton of variables with USB drives that most people don't know. It's not their fault. But expecting any USB drive to always blow your mind for speed for every single scenario isn't realistic. The main benefits of a USB drive is, they are extremely small and make your life safe and secure for back ups. They are easy to give to someone. But they will not be as fast as a large SSD. For anyone looking for the fastest possible speed for transfers, you have to move towards using a USB 3.2 Gen 2 NVMe M2 SSD, inside an aluminum enclosure with a fan. And that enclosure has to be plugged into a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port. They are going to be larger than a USB drive, more expensive and there has to be a USB 3.2 port involved, which many computers simply don't have unless they were made after 2018. This just isn't an option for many people and won't be for a long time.

Great product, and the performance was as expected but I've found the materials used to be a little cheap, i.e. cheap plastics, cheap rubberised coating (which might melt in more humid climates). The opening and closing of the drive also relies on nothing more than friction, which may also wear over time, leading to awkward use. A detent or similar would prevent this, but was not found on this drive. All things considered, you're only paying for the speed.

My whole world is on thumb drives, and I’ve owned every major brand available. Needed a large capacity one to take files and photos from home to school, and share across many computers. Got this one at a pretty good price, and it came with a 3-year warranty, so I felt comfortable with the quality, and set my expectations high. First thing I noticed is how small it is closed. Really nice. Looks cool, for sure. Second thing was that it transfers files much, much faster than my older thumb drives. Finally, I appreciated just how much stuff this tiny gem holds. I have all my files and photos from the last thirty years—from school and home—and the drive says I have 200 gb free space left! Looks to be pretty durable (my old SanDisk titanium is still my favorite), and I can’t think of any negatives after two weeks, so there you are. **** UPDATE (July1, 2019) **** OK, after putting 300 GB of precious data on this drive, yesterday, I accidentally tossed it in the washer, in the pocket of my jeans. They were seriously stained, so I soaked them all day, and dried them on 'hot' for an hour. Out they came. There was my Patriot--last thing out of the dryer, and hotter than a sunburn. In short, it fired up and worked perfectly. I would not recommend doing this—and maybe I was very lucky—but thanks, Patriot. You make an extremely durable little thumb drive! Whew…!

It is a super speed product.

Seems to work very well - the transfer write speed was roughly what the advertised write speed is 100mb/s write speed and it seems faster than a cheap usb drive and the overall quality of the thumb drive seems nice. Out of the box there is no encryption which I dont mind but others might need that. One thing to note is that the write speeds apparently vary depending on the capacity of the drive which I didnt realise. As in the lower capacity drives have slower theoretical max write speeds.