ADATA Elite UE800 2TB USB Type-C USB 3.2 Gen2 Flash Drive Up to 1000MB/s Read/Write (AELI-UE800-2T-CSG)

I bought this to use with a PC gaming handheld, a Legion Go. Already type-C, easy to use with modern mobile hardware. Can use it with iPhone 15 or Android phones without an adapter. I expected that there would be speed degradation in sustained loads that would saturate any fast cache on the drive. That would be fine as all I wanted was something better than overpriced microSD cards that drop to like 10MB/s under any load. This at worst is like 80MB/s. The early burst will sustain about 1GB/s for a bit but then drop. Then it'll go to some troughs and peaks. Just now in my testing moving moving about 100 GB of data, it's mostly at 130MB/s and random moments of 230-300MB/s. That is better than I expected. Okay now it's gone down to 60MB/s. Now with videos maybe average size like 8GB moving over 100GB in total at a time, this maintains about 120-200MB/s through most of it. Maybe it too hot. Doesn't feel too hot to touch like some NVME in enclosures that I've felt. Flash drives are inconsistent than an m.2 in an enclosure but we pay for the size and convenience So much better and consistent than microSD cards in similar price brackets. Random read/write on my 1TB microSD card sucks compared to this in CrystalDiskMark. I'm playing games off this flash drive that on Steam, have files that some total to over 100GB. My microSD card has little load time hitches in games. This flash drive, so much better than a spinning disk. The glory of good flash storage and random access performance. Sure there's going to be modern games with DirectStorage that aren't perfect, but I've watched videos of the PS5 Ratchet and Clank on SATA3 drives and it's still way better than spinning disk. I approve of this flash drive. Black Friday 2023 2TB at $103

I bought this drive as an extension for my Meta Quest 3. It works great for most movies but, when REALLY taxing it with a 8K 180 foV at 60fps there serious buffering issues. It struggles a bit at 5K but anything below that its great.

Just tested the thumbdrive with CrystalDiskMark. Size is 1863 GiB (2000 GB), read speed is >1000 GB/s, write speed is ~970 GB/s. The case is rather flimsy, and the USB-C extender seems like it'd be prone to break. But as for the actual specs, they appear correct.

Product received mostly as described. But I wish the mechanism for hiding the USB C connector was a lot sturdier. It's fine if you want to plug it in as some expandable storage and forget about it. But makes it a massive pain in the ass if your actually want to move files around regularly. This was especially true for my current desktop. As the only USB C connector is located on the back in-between other USBs. It should fit just fine. It's not *that* tight of a space. But I have to unplug my mouse (the cord above) so that I can force the USB C connector to stay study enough to actually get plugged into my PC. Often by lining it up, then using my nail to extend the drive while basically already partially inside. As otherwise I repeatedly gets pushed back into the plastic casing every single time. The plastic isn't anything fancy either. Overall it just feels like poor build quality. Additionally. I did a basic read/write test and although my *read* speeds were quite high (often at or above 600 MB/s. My *write* speeds never got close to that (usually around 80 MB/s. Not at all unusable. But not as described. Although I'm not tech savvy enough to know or care if that's my own system's limitation or a fault of the capacity tester tool I was using.

Biggest issue for MacBooks is the physical size of this drive: it's width does not allow it to be plugged in next to your charging cable in the neiboring usb-c port (see attached pic, this is true for both 4-port MB pro 16-in and MB air) So you may need a usb-c male / female cable if you want it to plug it in next to your other / power cable. The drive build looks to be flaky with very light/plastic feel (so would def need to be very careful with it). Other than that, drive looked fast, consistentently writing at 300MB/s for prolonged periods when backing up large documents/pictures/etc folders.