Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I wanted a larger flash drive for backing up my laptop, (not my only backup device). This was the largest capacity, but smallest size I could find. After it arrived, I ran the standard fake flash check, and this drive really was 256GB. Copying my laptop's OS image went smoothly, and faster than my old 32GB flash drive. But, that was USB 2 device... A test boot and use found it to be both reliable, and fast enough in case something happens to my normal SSD. Even bringing up LibreOffice was quick, less than 5 seconds. Note that I over-wrote the built-in FAT32 file system, as I use ZFS on Linux. This drive works just fine with alternate OSes & file systems. And my current laptop only has USB 3.0, (5Gbps), with slower processors, (dual core Celeron). So this flash drive would likely be faster on newer hardware. Last, I knew this was not as fast as some of the smaller capacity flash drives. Check the specifications, and make sure you understand that before you buy. Update: Removing all but 1 star. The first device started failing about 6 months ago, so it did not last 2 years. It was lightly used, mostly for monthly backups. Finally gave up on it, and purchased another brand's device. The second device purchased about 14 months ago is still working on another computer for it's backups, and alternate boot media for recovery.