Clever housing, very good speed and great value for money

USB sticks can be used for a variety of tasks in addition to pure storage function. As a boot medium for live systems, as encrypted data container, for file sharing or perhaps as a memory expansion for tightly dimensioned systems. The conceivable and practically possible fields of application are extremely varied, especially in this storage medium and be individually used certainly greatly.

As varied as the areas of application fail, so elementary to the performance and quality characteristics distinguish the unmanageable large stick offer. I have confined myself in finding especially on models with a good for my needs write rate. By the way also the exterior should fit and the USB connector is protected during transport. The colorful coloring of Lexar Jump Drives also seems to me very accommodating as I can the colorful sticks to pick out my other stick Armada faster.

Take care when choosing on Amazon's product page. For several days you have, thrown together here different chassis and storage variants previously usefully performed separately on a product page. The now selectable models can not distinguish irrelevant from each other. Reading the product reviews so again just look at the model exactly in connection with this. I indulged in the following sticks:

Lexar 32GB JumpDrive S35 USB 3.0 Memory Stick
Lexar 64GB JumpDrive S35 USB 3.0 Memory Stick

Weight: 18g
Color: white-green 32 GB / 64 GB Purple distinguish, other capacity sizes are other color schemes
Capacity: 32 GB (gross) / 29.7 GB (net) 64 GB (gross) / 59.6 GB (net)
Read Speed: up to 150 MB / s (according to the manufacturer.)
Writing Speed: up to 60MB / s (according to the manufacturer.)
Price: 23 euros (32 GB) and 31 euros (64 GB), both the time of purchase

A great feature of this sticks in the practical operation, the flip-out USB connector. This automatically moves during unfolding (rotary folding mechanism) out of the housing and disappear automatically when folding back the chassis. The USB port is thus well protected during transport and usual cap or caps that can be lost, are a thing of the past. The stick consists entirely of the two-color plastic and is provided at the top with a glowing red status LED in triangular shape. The workmanship is good and the stick makes a total of a sufficiently robust.

Lexar advertises the 32GB and the 64GB JumpDrive S35 comprehensive with a read speed of up to 150MB / s and a write speed of up to 60MB / s. As usual, exaggerate the manufacturers like to in the technical specifications. Lexar refers to internal tests and also restricts equal with the addition Actual performance may vary the performance a. While the reading speed in both sticks with 125 MB / s to 135 MB / s is not very different, occur in the write speeds on distinct differences. While the 32 GB version / s remains below 40 MB, the 64 GB version even exceeds the manufacturer's specification and achieves up to 70 MB / s.

I have tested the quasi factory fresh sticks under Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Mac OS X. As tools I have used AS SSD and AJA.
On Mac is striking that especially clearly losing the write performance at speed. With 22 to 26 MB / s have to come up with a noticeably slower transfer rate deal. I tested with exFAT. With another filesystem could be on the Mac might achieve better results, but since I use the stick on both Windows and Mac, here's exFAT system of my choice. See the screenshots.

Conclusion:
Lexar JumpDrive S35 is a successful storage solution. In both versions, the I bought, like the case with the practical screw-folding mechanism. In addition, both are well made and offer a very good reading speed. My first choice is ultimately due to the higher euro-per-gigabyte ratio and the considerably higher write speed, the purple 64GB JumpDrive. In my view, a full purchase recommendation.