Integral 128GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Courier Blue

I've had this Integral 128GB USB 2.0 flash drive for a few years now, and it’s been perfect—no issues whatsoever! The storage capacity is great for keeping documents, photos, and backups, and even though it’s USB 2.0, the transfer speeds are still decent for everyday use. It’s sturdy, well-made, and super reliable, which is exactly what you want in a flash drive. I’ve used it regularly, and it’s never let me down. If you need a dependable and affordable USB stick with plenty of space, this one is a solid choice. Highly recommend!

It's hard to get hold 128GB USB sticks at present, so I was worried that these would be rubbish, given their affordable price. They are constructed much like any regular USB stick, they're not exceptionally tough or anything - but built well enough. When I connected them to my laptop I checked them with GNU Parted and discovered the partitions weren't aligned on them, hence data transfer rates would be a little slow. I deleted their partition tables and made a new table with a single partition spanning as much of each disk as I could, but aligned correctly. I then formatted them with the EXT2 filesystem. USB performance on Linux is slow for this type of storage, and the EXT2 filesystem makes this slower still; however performance was perfectly acceptable on these. I backed up a bunch of data to them and verified it all, and it seems to be fine. The first stick wrote the data very quickly, and it was done by the time I came back to my computer a few hours later. The second stick wrote the data pitifully slowly, at around about 1MiB/second; however readback speeds were completely acceptable. I put this down to potentially me messing up somewhere when specifying the partition or filesystem options. All in all decent USB sticks - and if you're a Windows user, you'll probably find they're very quick.

good product, nice size and compact, easy to use and does what it is supposed to do

I'm enjoying it, having enough space to store valuable files and it's portability, with secured access to all files, coupled with it's compatibility make me love the drive

* Physical Thumb drives are always useful. If I need to use FAT32, losing the extra 32 GB size to format is not too much. The 64 Gig size covers most day-to-day capacity usage. I have used this brand before. And they are reliable. If I use a drive for Linux Mint, or Zorin, to create a portable version of Linux, it's well able to carry this off. I have used one of these thumb drives to create recovery media for my Ashampoo Backup Pro v26.3 recovery system. This recovery system took a trial-and-error approach to make it operational. But by selecting to boot from this Flash drive setting in my UEFI Bios, it's eventually working now. I am happier with this to fall back on now. The big-sized, with USB 2.0 takes ages to load with data. I could try USB 3.0 ones, they are a quarter of the time to fill, but with a greater price. If no rush, these USB 2.0 will do the job. The equipment it will work with is most makes that support USB 2.0, can format for Windows uses FAT32 / exFAT / NTFS, Mac uses APFS / HFS+ / exFAT / FAT32, while Linux uses Ext 2 / 3 / 4, ReiserFS, BtrFS / FAT32 / FAT16 Tip. To reuse a thumb drive previously dedicated to a similar to live Linux, look into Windows Administrative Tools / Disk Management and follow the wizard. Look for repartitioning and reformatting the pen drive. For exact help, go to YouTube and search for help there. Most times you will be able to reuse this thumb drive previously used for live environments. It is recommended that exFAT be applied to a pen drive as it is designed to optimise performance and protect pen drive's capacity. It's a journaled filesystem, and this protects data from corruption. However, if you choose NTFS, this is fine too. As you can read, the format with the wisest acceptance in computing is FAT32. But with a low capacity size of a maximum of 32 GB, and a max single file size of 4 GB.

Good price . Quality product. Seems to be just the job.

Good storage.

I have a few Intergral USB sticks from years ago and from previous experience found they were good enough and worked on all devices like my in car stereo, Playstation etc. I ordered these on the basis from the fact they last a long time and Sandisk has been hit and miss with reliability. First issue is the painfully slow transfer speed of these sticks. I was getting around 2.5mb per second which meant it was taking much longer to transfer music on to. The read speed was not much better and deleting files off takes a long time for it to think about it. I tried to use it in my car, would not read. Tried it in my wifes car which is a different stereo, same issue. The sticks I had formatted to FAT32 pre hand as this gives the best compatibility. Plugged it into my Playstation and had the same issue as well. Only seemed to read from the PC. I don't know whether the quality from Integral has dropped or these are just cheap sticks using inferior components but I ended up having to return the sticks back for a refund! I also purchased a Sandisk Cruzer Blade 2.0 flash drive from Amazon. Copied the same music over on to that stick, works with the car stereo and Playstation. So clearly there is an issue with these sticks made by Integral. I would highly recommend not to get these sticks. They are inferior quality, performance is inadequate and for not much more I would get something else that will actually work with other devices.