To be honest, purchased in promo, I especially wanted to take advantage of a good price for a 32GB 3.0 and a recognized brand, color did not matter to me. But once in hand, it's true she's pretty, it looks like a small ingot. It made of metal, it shows and it feels to the touch, so little extra for those who want originality, fortunately it does not swell the price. The dimensions are relatively small but quite normal for a USB stick. The construction is solid (metal) and well finished, it is not cheap as some. Note: there is a pin inside the back to slide a hand strap and a small blue LED as well, but not very visible (under the tab) Regards performance (tested Windows 8): it is very well read: around 100 Mbit / s (90 announced) by cons in writing is a little winded: 20 Mbit / s (25 announced) This is almost in line with what is advertised but one would have expected better from a 3.0. On a USB 2.0 port I could measure read 30 Mbits / s, write 12 Mbit / s, not the top, but not so bad. In short a good buy: aesthetic, discrete, solid, performance roughly correspond with those announced and are very correct for the price, so you can believe that you have a gold key :-), then everything depends on use we will be. In many cases, the capacity is more important than speed.