Transcend JetFlash 700 32 GB Pen Drive

Hi,

To begin with, Flipkart you guys rock! Got my flash drive within 36 hours of placing the order.

The product seems to be promising. Don't have USB 3.0 port on my laptop but tried on USB 2.0 and transfer rate is blazing.

Quite satisfied!

Regards,
Karan Sachar

I am using it for the last 1 week and bought it primarily for the USB 3 connectivity. The speed is good compared to the other USB drives in both USB 3 & USB 2 modes. If you are going for a high capacity, USB 3.0 drive look no further. This drive is very good for taking backups.

Pros -

Good Speed
Rugged

Cons -

No integrated cap.
The bundled software doesn't have good security/privacy options (like the software provided with SANDisk). I am using Truecrypt to safeguard my data.

The flipkart delivery and service is good as usual. They delivered this product in 3 days, I had ordered another product with this and they delivered it the next day. This product seems to be supplied from Mumbai.

I would like to say that the device looks nice and has a simple but still elegant design.
Fits in the hand comfortably.
But there are some problems
1) Its black glossy finish is full of scratches within 2 days of medium use. - so the finish could have been better.
2)Its new technology makes it undetectable especially on older systems who ask for drivers or say that the USB device is not recognizable.
So buy it only you all have some pretty new hardware to deal with.
3) speed is not great but respectable and certainly more than USB 2.0.
4)Also the device is in FAT32 format initially ...convert it to NTFS format to allow transmission greater than 7 GB files.
I am getting about 30 Mbps read/write speed on USB 2.0 and about 75-90 Mbps on USB 3.0.
Blue LED light looks good.
Its quite plastic so feels cheap sometimes and yes the cap has to remembered all the time else it can get lost easily.

VERDICT - All in all a very good pendrive for the space and speed hungry as long as you don't have any problem with the scratches and the plasticky feel but TRANSCEND has still a long way to go to make the best USB 3.0 pendrive.

My cousin bought it for my from LetsBuy.com, which is now taken over by flipkart.com, for ₹1599.00.

My requirements were:
1. Large Storage - to copy files such as images of large software like Visual Studio, SQL Server etc. and HD movies.
2. High Speed - to copy such large amount of data, I needed (extra-)high speed.

It's solutions:
1. Storage - I have never found 29.4 GB of available memory to be insufficient.
CASE: Once I had to copy pieces of data of more than 65 GB. But it never bothered me to take them in the second trip (with 8 GB Kingston DT during the second trip to carry remaining data).

2. Speed -`
CASE 1: Ah! I was literally amused to see the data getting copied at 19 MB/s (both read and write) on my DELL Mini 10v (Inspiron 1011).
CASE 2: How do you think I would have felt when I saw the data being copied at 40-45 MB/s (both read and write) on my college computers (HCL desktop with Intel Dual Core CPU/2 GB RAM)?
Trust me, both of the above cases were with USB 2.0 ports!
REPORTED INFO: A friend of mine told me that "Blue portನಲ್ಲಿ ಕೂಡ ಅಷ್ಟೇ speed ಇದೆ." It means, it has the same speed through USB 3.0 port also. But I don't remember the brand name of the laptop.

Two things I found with the speed are
- It varies with machines. So don't expect the top speeds on every computer.
- It certainly performs better than USB 2.0 flash drives.

Bottom line: I recommend it for everyone. It's worth paying for this incredible device.

Transfer speed 24 MB/s (Mega bites per second not mega bits per second because earlier is more relevant).
On my windows 7 laptop, Core i3 2 GB RAM. No difference between usb 2 or usb 3 ports (althouth a message is displayed that this device can perform faster when plugged to usb 2 socket).

Multifile transfer speed ~ 25 MB/s

on my desktop: windows xp, pentium 4, 1 GB RAM, USB 2.0 port,

Multifile transfer :
Transfer speed : 2.38 GB in ~ 11 mintus (~3.6 MB/s), single file 230 MB in ~ 11 sec (21 MB/s).
So it is OK while comes to transfer speed.
Build quality (3.5/5), could be better.
Promised free softwares could not be downloaded till now due to some problem in transcend's site.
Flipkart delivery is good one day earlier than promised.
My verdict is good pen drive but could be better so 4/5