I have to stick for several months in operation. So far no failures or the like. The speed is satisfactory and well above that of conventional USB2.0 flash drives, even on a USB2.0 port. Only when a large number of very small files the speed breaks a strong and decreases to less than one megabyte per second. This can probably other better. In addition, the drive for longer copying warmed significantly, but not so much that I'm thinking why me.