I love these HP flash drives. I buy these and I always have one in my pocket and a spare one in the wrapper on the shelf. I've been using flash drives for 20+ years (my first was 16 mb and a gift from a techie friend).
One caution to everyone and this applies to every brand of flash drive.
There are two primary failure modes on all flash drives:
The first is the drive switches to a read-only mode. This is when the chip inside wears out and means that you can't add any more to it (even tho it say say it still has free space) BUT can get your data back and write it to a new one.
The second failure mode it hat it just dies. It is unreadable. You might get your data back but it involves expensive technical magic.
ALWAYS - ALWAYS - have a second copy of your data on a separate device. I have a folder on my desktop labeled Flash Drives and inside that folder is a folder for each drive (and the desktop backs up to a external hard drive every night, and I rotate through three external hard drives). I can back up the flash drive to the folder and I can copy the folder to a new flash drive when it fails. Not "if" but "when".
There are two kinds of people in the world: those that have lost data and those that will. The trick is to delay the loss as long as possible.
| Write Speed | 600 MB/s |
|---|---|
| Read Speed | 70 Megabytes Per Second |
| Connectivity Technology | USB |
| Color | BLACK |
| Model Name | D2 |
| Flash Memory Type | USB |
| Manufacturer | PNY |
| Hardware Connectivity Technology | USB Type A |
| Hard Disk Size | 256 GB |
| UPC | 751492603483 |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00751492603483 |
| Hard Drive | 256 GB |
