My thoughts exactly... Having 128 GB on the package is a bit like bundling a mountain bike with a station wagon and then marketing it as an all-terrain vehicle.
Always had an odd issue with high-end Sandisk USB3 sticks. I can plug them in and nothing...no detection. Plug in a Lexar/Toshiba/Samsung/Corsair/Kingston etc. USB3 stick the same way and it will detect every time. Can use any USB3 port, same story. To get the Sandisk's to connect I have to pull them out and jam them in hard (ahem) a couple of times...then they might detect. Then of course they have errors and need a scan. I now keep away from them. I've tried one of each generation of the Extreme/Ultras to see if it has changed but never has. (Shrugs)
A really cheap marketing trick. Sandisk should be ashamed. Techniques like this debase the common terminology and create yet another landmine for the consumer.
I recall a tape drive maker that advertised their capacity as "250MB". After you got the drive, you discovered that this meant "of compressed data"... so if you were storing MP3s or JPGs, it was only 125MB.
In any case, there's no way that Sandisk should be printing "128GB" right on the chip icon. They *know* some people will be mislead. And if they will knowingly mislead on this, what else will they do? This really degrades my opinion of a company I have formerly respected.
Right? Cloud storage is just not useful to most users... And printing "128GB" on an SD card that only has 64GB of actual on-device-storage is misleading at best and a blatant rip-off at worst.
I was hoping there'd be something clever, like the USB drive always mirrors the cloud files when it can, so if you go somewhere without internet you can get the files off the USB. But doesn't look like it.
What is the drive formatted in and can you reformat it without crippling it? I bought a Sandisk Ultra a while ago, re-formatted since it came with FAT32, and it became ridiculously slow when writing (5MByte/sec tops). After googling the issue, I found that once re-formatted that behaviour is sort of irreversible. Tried a bunch of different formatting tools and settings, nothing worked. So the Sandisk Ultra is now slower than my 10 year old USB2 drives.
Rxzimm the performance is cluster size dependent so you have to find the right "block" size for the flash drive you are using and format it with that.But be aware that this must be balanced against the number of small files you have on your drive why ex a 1k file will take 8k space if cluster size is 8k(B)
For me the lynchpin for a cloud provider is trust. As an ex-customer of Bitcasa in 2013 they cancelled my plan that was $99 a year, unless I paid $999 a year, and gave me only 2 weeks to move terabytes of data at insanely low transfer rates. Even after my account was cancelled they continued to bill me and I had to dispute the charge with my credit card provider. I would put zero trust in this company, a quick Google or Twitter search will indicate these guys have no idea what they are doing. They are an Amazon S3 reseller positioning their product now as a corporate-level enterprise product and they never even supported two factor authentication even after numerous customer requests.
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Murloc - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
meh it may work as a marketing trick, but for most people it's best to buy separate I think.nospecialname - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
My thoughts exactly... Having 128 GB on the package is a bit like bundling a mountain bike with a station wagon and then marketing it as an all-terrain vehicle.masontula - Monday, July 25, 2016 - link
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jabber - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
Always had an odd issue with high-end Sandisk USB3 sticks. I can plug them in and nothing...no detection. Plug in a Lexar/Toshiba/Samsung/Corsair/Kingston etc. USB3 stick the same way and it will detect every time. Can use any USB3 port, same story. To get the Sandisk's to connect I have to pull them out and jam them in hard (ahem) a couple of times...then they might detect. Then of course they have errors and need a scan. I now keep away from them. I've tried one of each generation of the Extreme/Ultras to see if it has changed but never has. (Shrugs)damianrobertjones - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
You must own a LOT of drives.Edgar - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
Should be due to bad luck i guess... my Sandisk Extreme is awesome... no issue so far after 1 year...zodiacfml - Friday, February 19, 2016 - link
Are you sure? It must have been Windows installing the driver for the Sandisk which you thought is no detection.Arbie - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
A really cheap marketing trick. Sandisk should be ashamed. Techniques like this debase the common terminology and create yet another landmine for the consumer.I recall a tape drive maker that advertised their capacity as "250MB". After you got the drive, you discovered that this meant "of compressed data"... so if you were storing MP3s or JPGs, it was only 125MB.
In any case, there's no way that Sandisk should be printing "128GB" right on the chip icon. They *know* some people will be mislead. And if they will knowingly mislead on this, what else will they do? This really degrades my opinion of a company I have formerly respected.
Teknobug - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
64GB+64GB cloud? Piss on Sandisk.lexluthermiester - Thursday, March 10, 2016 - link
Right? Cloud storage is just not useful to most users... And printing "128GB" on an SD card that only has 64GB of actual on-device-storage is misleading at best and a blatant rip-off at worst.stephenbrooks - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
I was hoping there'd be something clever, like the USB drive always mirrors the cloud files when it can, so if you go somewhere without internet you can get the files off the USB. But doesn't look like it.Bladen - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
I really, really hope that they release these as is in Australia...So the ACCC can fine them for misleading advertising!
valinor89 - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
I have been testing one of those reversible USB to micro USB cables and I wish we had more devices with reversible USB connectors.Gothmoth - Thursday, February 18, 2016 - link
sorry im not stupid enuff to buy into this....darkfalz - Friday, February 19, 2016 - link
I don't like this gimmick. It's bad enough with Netbooks and the like who say 200 GB* storage (with most of that on the cloud).That being said SanDisk is my goto company for thumb drives and SD cards - only ever been let down by their cheapo "Cruzer Blade" range.
rxzlmn - Friday, February 19, 2016 - link
What is the drive formatted in and can you reformat it without crippling it? I bought a Sandisk Ultra a while ago, re-formatted since it came with FAT32, and it became ridiculously slow when writing (5MByte/sec tops). After googling the issue, I found that once re-formatted that behaviour is sort of irreversible. Tried a bunch of different formatting tools and settings, nothing worked. So the Sandisk Ultra is now slower than my 10 year old USB2 drives.ganeshts - Sunday, February 21, 2016 - link
All our benchmarks are processed with the drive in exFAT format, unless noted otherwise.Grydelåg - Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - link
Rxzimm the performance is cluster size dependent so you have to find the right "block" size for the flash drive you are using and format it with that.But be aware that this must be balanced against the number of small files you have on your drive why ex a 1k file will take 8k space if cluster size is 8k(B)cratervalley - Thursday, February 25, 2016 - link
For me the lynchpin for a cloud provider is trust. As an ex-customer of Bitcasa in 2013 they cancelled my plan that was $99 a year, unless I paid $999 a year, and gave me only 2 weeks to move terabytes of data at insanely low transfer rates. Even after my account was cancelled they continued to bill me and I had to dispute the charge with my credit card provider. I would put zero trust in this company, a quick Google or Twitter search will indicate these guys have no idea what they are doing. They are an Amazon S3 reseller positioning their product now as a corporate-level enterprise product and they never even supported two factor authentication even after numerous customer requests.shilpamalhotra - Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - link
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