Patriot Supersonic Rage Prime USB 3.2 Gen 2 Flash Drive - 500GB

The Patriot Supersonic Rage Prime USB 3 Flash Drive is fast. As fast as they boast? Well, maybe. I think it will depend on your hardware. It is certainly faster than any flash drive I have ever owned. It’s also, at 500GB, the largest capacity flash drive I’ve had. I always saw them as too expensive. This one though is very affordable. The retractable thing is a real plus too in two ways. First it reduces the size of the thing and second; lids, in my opinion, are a waste of time. They always get lost. So, being retractable saves you that little annoyance.On the compatibility side it performed equally well on both my PC and my daughter’s Macbook Pro.I know that, to give my review credibility I should say something negative but there really isn’t anything. Maybe, and this is just personal, the colour scheme doesn’t match the quality and performance.Totally deserving of the 5 stars.

Good performance. I typically get 430 MB/s Read, 600 MB/s Write for large files.

Great USB Flash Drive, the fastest I've had. If you're writing to this flash drive and getting nowhere near the advertised speed, it's likely because the source is too slow.To get anywhere near the advertised write speed the source needs to be at least comparable to a SATA 3 SSD.Copying from a SATA 3 SSD I get just over 500MB/sCopying from a Gen 4 NVMe SSD I get around 580MB/sCopying from a WD Red HDD I get around 170MB/sWhen write speeds are not what you expected, the source being too slow is often overlooked.

Bought this to use as external memory for installing ISTA+ on a laptop for my car, size is perfect for this, transfer speed is great, good value for money and easy to use.

I've had other versions of the RAGE range and they were all this kind of tough rubber chassis. This one is basically plastic and makes it feel cheap.Doesn't mean I'll stop using it, just wanted to point it out.

Now THAT is a USB stick. over 350MB/s faster than SSD to SSD. Absolutely mental, transferred 15GB file in seconds.

I’ve used the Patriot Supersonic Rage Prime 12 times for monthly backups then it became annoyingly faulty, sometimes it was recognised by Windows, other times it was not. Touch it and would disconnect or if safely ejected it would reconnect again. I’ve tested it many times in 3 different PCs and the results were always the same.It has a 5 year warranty but customers are responsible for paying the shipping cost to send a defective product to Patriot in The Netherlands and they recommend that you ship it (but not in an envelope) with a carrier service that provides tracking and insurance in case it’s lost or damaged in transit. They recommend DHL, FedEx and UPS, but from the UK this will cost as much as the drive is worth and with two of them substantially more. Needless to say it’ll go in the bin.

Huge storage. Good product