Really tiny, almost reached the promised speed, but remain under options of USB 3.0

*** Packing:
Back cardboard with perforation, Unpacking was easy. A pleasant surprise, had already reckoned with multiple welded hard plastic.

*** Style:
As always, a matter of taste, I find it very successful. From one solid piece of metal with a matte finish. Etc. The opening for key holder is slightly curved.

*** Height Weight:
Really, really tiny. So far, I thought my old Super Talent stick is small, but this is but here again shorter and extremely lightweight (3.3 g). To illustrate the size of the sticks I uploaded a pic of Amazon customers pictures, because I could hardly believe it himself. The most important thing: The stick still can be, despite its small dimensions on all of my devices tested conveniently plug and unplug.

*** Speed:
The most important point in a USB flash drive. Here it must be noted that the manufacturer depending on the memory stick size indicates different recording speeds!

8GB - 6MB / s
16GB - 12MB / s
32GB - 20MB / s (the evaluated here Stick)
64GB - 24MB / s

The read rates are always specified with up to 90MB / s. All with the proviso that the stick depends on a 3x USB port.

I myself once measured it my 32GB flash drive with Linux, here are the results:

- Read (USB 3.0), result: 82,55MB / s
hdparm -tT / dev / sdd
/ Dev / sdd:
Timing cached reads: 7162 MB in 2:00 seconds = 3583.76 MB / sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 248 MB in 3:00 seconds = 82.55 MB / sec

- Writing ~ 16GB (USB 3.0), result: 21,9MB / s
dd if = / dev / zero of = / dev / bs = 1G sdd1 count = 16 oflag = direct
16 + 0 records a
16 + 0 records out
17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 784.892 s, 21.9 MB / s

With USB 2 to reach reading 33,81MB / s when writing ~ 16GB 16,8MB / s.

All in all, very good results, with whom I am pleased.

*** Curiosities:
The stick should be waterproof ("Waterproof") according to the manufacturer. I did not even try now and I will not either. But should something be about gone, I would allow to dry the part long before it is plugged in again.

*** Conclusion:
The promised data rates are almost reached, with small reductions in the reading rate. Overall, however, it is not a speed miracles write rates are similar to those of USB 2 but very. Only when reading he has his head forward - but without auszureizen USB 3. Here you realize that the performance falls by the wayside in favor of size.

For design and feel are really great. The price / performance ratio, I would describe as a balanced and corresponds to the current price situation. For a few euros more you get even much faster USB 3 sticks, but are again greater for it.

So if an ultra-compact travel companion, for example looking at the bowl collar, is well advised here. If you value speed in the pocket-sized host to possibly should look for another Stick.