Is there much difference in the [branded] memory sticks?

poppellerant

Some of my oldest USB drives are SanDisk branded, but I almost always Samsung SSD drives. Why? Because they are the two brands that have seldom let me down and they are usually fast and reliable.  I think one 8GB SanDisk USB 2.0 drive I have hasn't been plugged in for literally years and the data was accessible as soon I needed it last year.

Personally, I'd buy the SanDisk drive, which also happens to be the fastest ones out of your list.

Olinda99

If you already have USB stick you can also buy very cheaply a little tail which basically has a usbc on one hand which plugs into the phone and the other end accepts a standard USB stick

Exodi

35har1old said:

Exodi said:

This question is awkwardly framed.

In isolation, there is no difference between slapping a brand name on a memory stick. However, there are differences between the specifications of different memory sticks.

One of the main being read/write speed. It's all good focusing on the capacity on a memory stick, but there's nothing worse than waiting all day for your photos to backup.

Using the ones you linked as an example:

Samsung has read speed of 300MB/s and write speed of 30MB/s
SanDisk has read speed of 400MB/s and write speed of ~150MB/s
Kingston has read speed of ~100MB/s and write speed of ~10MB/s
Acer has read speed of 120MB/S and write speed of 90MB/s

As you can see in the above, while the Kingston and Acer are cheaper, they also have lower read/write speeds (especially the Kingston, that write speed is shocking).

Based on this, of the examples you linked, the SanDisk looks like the best deal.

Kingston do manufacture fast memory sticks - their DataTraveler Max is one of the fastest memory sticks on the market: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09DVPH8NQ

£33.99 but read speed of 1000MB/s and write speed of 900MB/s. There are some criticisms on the quality though.

Anyway, hope that helps.

Samsung is 400MB/s read 5 year guarantee?
Better of with a ssd if you want speed

Your right, I saw it said the read write in the description, but it appears the figures are incorrect as it clearly states 400MB/s in the title, A+ Content, etc. I've updated my original post.

Agree that speed might not be the most important metric, but aside from capacity it is at least worth keeping in mind, at the minimum to prevent this thread entirely being "I happened to buy [X] and I've had no issues, so I suggest [X]".