Samsung BAR (METAL) 64GB USB 3.0 Drive
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Condition: New
Capacity: 64GB
Top positive review
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The little white Samsung 128 works, so time to buy another Samsung product. - the 128gig Metal one.
By NM on Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2017
Update Several Months Later: I now have four of these little metal guys plugged into a four port USB 3.0 hub. Tonight I noticed some RF interference when copying data from these drives over to drives on a separate USB 2.0 hub. Will have to investigate this later to try and see where the RF is coming from (drive1, Hub 1, cables, PC, Hub 2, cables, drive2, etc) and if I can do anything about it. Just purchased a fifth one of these Metals (fingers crossed) and to be open for future expansion also ordered another four port USB 3.0 hub. Looks like I will space them out and have three on one hub and two on the other. Heat issues: Yes, I have noticed that these do get "warm" but nowhere near the Finger-Crispin-Good temps that come from the Sandisk USB3 drives. I have a possible suggestion to help "beat the heat" - I have purchased several six inch USB 3.0 cables which I have plugged into the Hub, and this does appear to add a little distance between the port/hub and the device in the hopes that it lowers the temp some. This technique works wonders with the Finger-Crispin Sandisk drives, so I would think it should help a little with the Samsung models. Usage: I tend to use these as Lazy Backups for my hard disk... Actual data is on the hard disk with a copy hanging out on one the Metals. One of the existing four contains some audio files and recordings whilst the others just hold generic data files. I am still nervous when it comes to 128 gig drives as my past history hasn't been good. The 1st Samsung Metal took over the audio files from a Lexar S45 drive after it started to "skip" during playback after a few days of use. The Lexar S37 was kind enough to not waste my time and just froze the whole system within hours of installation, so GoodBye S37! Aside from trying to crisp my fingers when I wasn't careful, have had one Sandisk 128 start to give disk errors (from the heat if nothing else) so in the main 128 gigs have been "odd". But when it comes to the Samsung Metals - several months have gone by and So Far So Good (fingers crossed). Soon I plan to be mounting multiple ISO files on one of these Metals and will see how well it performs over time. Older Review: Have had some crispy fingers with the tiny Sandisk 128s, and had to send one back to Sandisk after it started giving errors. Had a Lexar twirly-case 128 freeze three PCs in "Windows Explorer" from the day I first plugged it in (back to Amazon). Had a Lexar tiny-size 128 stutter on playback of audio files (back to Amazon). Not sure what is up with the 128s.. bad luck, bad karma, tech is still too new, but best to have backups of these things for safety's sake. But have had good luck (...so far) with the white Samsung tiny-size 128, so figured I'd try this "metal" 128 gig as it's also from Samsung. So far so good, so bought a second "metal" one. Now that I have three working (...so far) USB3 128s, also bought a USB3 hub from Amazon to plug them all into. A Happy Samsung Family! The "metal" drive isn't as tall as standard USB drives, which makes the hub stand out less. ...My three Sandisk 128s will be designated as "backup" drives and live in a drawer. (also great if the heat fails in the winter!) One thing I do wonder about is whether or not being "metal" on the surface might lead to issues with Static Electricity to the USB ports in the less-humid winter months, but will make use of my grounding strap first if I need to touch 'em in the future.. Re-reading the specs, this drive appears to be "shock proof", but that might not be of much good if a static charge fries the USB3 port. Best to be safe rather than sorry when it comes to ESD.
Top critical review
2 people found this helpful
Broken without usage, not reliable, slow and not worth.
By Daniel on Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2017
It's gonna be a long review, but in the end it came broken, as it was used only about couple of times, certainly not reliable, hot and slow write speeds (~300 KB/s). I would give -1 star (NEGATIVE) if possible. I spent a lot of time looking for a great choice of fast and reliable USB 3.0 flash drive, but looks like I indeed wasted my time and money completely. I choose the Samsung 64GB Bar flash drive because it looked solid (water/shock/magnet/temperature/xray proof), "claimed 5 year warranty", transfer speeds supposed up to 150MB/s with modern and clean design. After I received the flash drive, I went right away and made some benchmark tests with different file systems and transferring different file sizes/types. Here what I got in the first day/try of usage: Samsung Flash 64GB Benchmark - 01/08/2017 - Macbook Air 13 Mid 2011 - mac OS X 10.8.5 =============== USB2.0 - ExFAT Write folder (7 big files being total 2,84GB) to FLASH DRIVE - 2m48s (max speed avg 9 MB/s to 15 MB/s) Read folder (7 big files being total 2,84GB) from FLASH DRIVE - 1m18s (max speed 35 MB/s most of time) Write folder (391 JPG files with 2MB each) to FLASH DRIVE - 1m (speed avg 5 MB/s to 23 MB/s, cycle peaking) Read folder (391 JPG files with 2MB each) from FLASH DRIVE - 29s (max speed 31,5 MB/s almost 100% constant) Write folder (9,05GB movie file 720p) to FLASH DRIVE - 8m4s (speed avg 5 MB/s, 15 MB/s, 29 MB/s, cycle peaking each sec) Read folder (9,05GB movie file 720p) from FLASH DRIVE - 5m7s (max speed 34,9 ~ 35,2 MB/s almost until 50% constant, started peaking from 12MB/s to 27MB/s) =============== =============== USB2.0 - MAC OS - NTFS Write folder (7 big files being total 2,84GB) to FLASH DRIVE - 2m47s77 (max speed avg 22 / 22,5 / 17,5 / 8 / 3,5 MB/s cycles) Read folder (7 big files being total 2,84GB) from FLASH DRIVE - 1m28s (max speed 33 MB/s most of time) Write folder (391 JPG files with 2MB each) to FLASH DRIVE - 1m17s (speed avg 5 MB/s to 23 MB/s, cycle peaking) Read folder (391 JPG files with 2MB each) from FLASH DRIVE - 28s85 (max speed 32,5 MB/s almost 99% constant) Write folder (9,05GB movie file 720p) to FLASH DRIVE - 8m23s20 (speed avg 9 MB/s, 17 MB/s, 28 MB/s, cycle peaking each sec) Read folder (9,05GB movie file 720p) from FLASH DRIVE - 4m25s36 (max speed 32,5 ~ 33 MB/s almost 100% constant) =============== In the end, ExFAT or NTFS on my USB 2.0 ports acted pretty much the same in terms of performance, so I decided to keep using NTFS as would probably be easier to also use it with other devices. The read speed was around 31MB/s (with max of 35MB/s) and it's not bad considering it's USB 2.0 limitations, but write speed from 9MB/s to average 23MB/s was not what I was expecting. Now, if this review ended here, I would have give 3 or 4 stars, because it was reasonable on USB 2.0 (https://superuser.com/questions/317217/whats-the-maximum-typical-speed-possible-with-a-usb2-0-drive ), but now here goes the disaster... Notice that my benchmark ended using only about 13GB of files, just around 20% of flash drive capacity. After couple of weeks, I needed to use the flash drive to make a 28GB backup from a Windows notebook. It was a real pain. I thought it would transfer in about 31 minutes (considering average write speeds of 15MB/s) and it took more than 5 HOURS. Don't need to mention that the flash drive was pretty hot to touch and I needed to improvise a cooler or it probably would have taken longer (or fail) to copy. After I finally managed to copy the files to flash drive, I tried to open them in another Windows computer and it was not possible, not in one, but in ANY other computer. It always gave a message saying like "You need to format this disk before using" and it would ONLY open on my first Macbook Air I initially formatted it. I've read other reviews here at Amazon stating the exact same issue, of not being able to access flash drive on other computers. Now even worse, using the only computer I can access the flash drive, my Macbook Air, it won't write files anymore. If I try to read a file from flash drive, it's reading as before on max average of 30MB/s, but it I try to write ANY file to it, it will take FOREVER, writing at 256 KB/s ~ 500 KB/s. A great way to remember how internet speed were way back 20 years, but nothing like the "150MB/s advertised transfer speed". Again, I'm not the alone, I've read other people having also this same KB/s write speed issue. I'm currently outside the US and I bet Samsung will just say I'm on my own or will simply copy and paste their automated message. When I went to their website to check warranty details, it says "Sorry... No service policy & warranty information for MUF-64BA/AM". It's very amateur for a company of a size like Samsung. I'm very disappointed with Samsung and will look else where next time looking for reliable flash drives.
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