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As another review noted, the drive randomly disappears without notice after a few minutes in the computer. This causes file corruption. I purchased three of these devices to be used as a small RAID-Z1 array for an embedded system in some lab tests. First drive had the disconnect issue mentioned above, and about 500 bad blocks after writing a few GB to the drive. Second drive didn't remove itself, but reported over 1000 bad blocks after the same write load. Neither drive lasted more than 10 minutes before data corruption is detected. Third drive was thrown out without ever touching it because of the first two. In the computer appliance and embedded server world, "fit" USB drives are the defacto standard for the boot drive. This includes things like VMWare, FreeNAS, pfSense, OPNsense, and general FreeBSD/Linux systems. This is what I got the drives for, and why they would be in a RAID setup (again, common defacto standard for "fit" USB drives). These drives could not handle a single large write and single read back reliably. End of story. Go with what we know is best. Use the main band that made "fit" drives the defacto standard. Don't trust these. I wanted to experiment with an alternative brand, because their SD cards have been rock solid. USB drives though? Absolute trash. Go with the main, long trusted, long lasting USB storage brand. Yeah, they cost an extra 50 cents... What is your data actually worth !?