Around 15 months ago, when the 64GB Triton was released, it had one of the highest write speeds (177 MB/s) available on a consumer flash drive. Despite its great sequential performance and superb aesthetics its RRP of £129.99 priced the drive out of the mainstream flash drive market at that time. Today the same drive is available on Amazon for around £80 but the USB 3.0 flash drive landscape has changed significantly over the last 15 months. There are now competitors, such as the 64GB Sandisk Extreme, with both better overall performance and a lower price point than the 64GB Triton. Lexar will release an new range of faster P10 flash drives in the next few months, these newer drives promise to deliver record breaking performance. [Mar '13USBFlashPro]
For real world usability this is currently the best 64GB flash drive (superseded by the Ventura Ultra - 2014). It has a very balanced performance profile with an exceptional 4K random write speed. The 16GB version of the Extreme is currently the value leader in the USB 3.0 flash drive shootout. At present there are no viable alternatives to the 64GB Extreme in fact the Corsair voyager GT turbo is the only drive on the horizon that may challenge the Sandisk any time soon. There are however several reports (Newegg, Amazon) of compatibility issues with this, the 64GB version (other versions are fine), so if you do go for the 64GB version, don't throw the receipt away in a hurry. [Feb '13USBFlashPro]
We highlight the best USB flash drive in terms of balanced performance and value for money using current prices, sequential read, sequential write , 4k read and 4k write speed. The speeds are combined to form a single effective speed which measures performance for tasks such as copying photos, music and videos. Effective speed is adjusted by current price and capacity to yield value for money. Finally thousands of individual user ratings are used to validate our benchmark figures. [USBFlashPro]
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