Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive Review
SanDisk’s next low-profile USB flash drive Ultra Fit USB 3.1 is a really tiny drive but comes with huge capacity. The drive is available in five variants – 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256 GB to choose from as per your requirement.
This high-speed USB 3.1 drive is up to 15X faster than standard USB 2.0 drives (4MB/s); up to 130MB/s read speed. It includes SanDisk SecureAccess software for password protection and 128bit AES encryption software making it easy to password-protect critical files. The user just needs to drag and drop files into the vault, and they’ll be encrypted to keep the private files private.
Also, the drive comes with a RescuePRO Deluxe data recovery software download offer. This software allows recovery of files that have been accidentally deleted (download required). It is also backward-compatible, so it can be plugged into any USB 3.0 or 2.0 port.
Performance
We tested its performance in real life and it’s really impressive. Transferring files such as photos and files were real quick. We transfer the 5 GB of assorted data from PC to drive and it took about 6 min and 19 sec. while transferring the same data from USB to PC it took 14 min 05 sec.
While running CrystalDisk Mark benchmark it delivered, 105 MB/ sec read speed of 48.80 MB/sec write speed.
And with ATTO its archives read speed up to 130 MB/sec and write speed up to 23 MB/sec. Overall it is a good tiny drive to store your data but write speed could have been better.
Bottomline: The compact drive is perfect to store your data securely as it comes with data encryption. Also, it has data recovery to restore your precious data in case of any mishappening. The overall performance of the drive is good, just we are not happy with its write speed, that could be better.