After unpacking the sticks keeping a real lightweight in his hands. In the currently (unfortunately) usual piano black he is at least visually is not a revelation. The plastic housing looks relatively cheap and hardly dibasic. Correspondingly, also the haptics. So much for first impressions.
Decisive in such a product is of course the technical aspect. And he that delivered me to date, with one small, sure.
The stick is (64bit) easily detected on my Windows 7 system. Formatting the stick a size of approximately 7.47 GB me appears. Formatting from NTFS system takes a long time for a complete formatting. Why is that now, unlike a FAT32 formatting, I can not say.
I tested the drive with the tool Check Flash 1.16.2. The result is convincing. The drive delivers the specified in the product description on Amazon regarding performance read and write speeds.
We tested two identical sticks. The results in detail:
1. Stick
Read Speed: 31,16MB / s
Write Speed: 11.28 MB / s
4 Device read errors (!)
2. Stick
Read Speed: 31.20 MB / s
Write Speed: 11.22 MB / s
0 Device read errors
The two test candidates show roughly identical values. The first time you stick some sectors are physically defective. This finds expression in the corresponding read errors. Also reformat yielded no improvement.
The measurements were made in NTFS and FAT32 format. The resulting differences in performance in my opinion are insignificant.
Another word on Illuminisierung of sticks. When I connected the SanDisk Cruzer some time ago, I could not believe how much light can come from such a small stick. Say, if you have such a stick on the desk in front of you, which can annoy ungflaublich over time.
The Transcend presents itself in the 600 version with a subtle blue LED that flashes according to when active. The intensity is not disturbing and visually gives an appealing impression.
Who has no problem with a cheap plastic case, is this stick can, at least at this time, buy without hesitation. The value for money seems to me to be justified. Because of the bad sectors and not just high-quality housing I subtract a star.
