“I want to introduce you to a thumb drive that’s 16 times faster than a typical USB 3.0-based thumb drive,” David Gewirtz reports for ZDNet.
“Enter the solid-state, high-performance thumb drive,” Gewirtz reports. “This category of drive is very slightly larger than a thumb drive, but has the performance of an external SSD.”
“The folks at Other World Computing reached out and provided me with the Envoy Pro mini, a 240GB thumb drive,” Gewirtz reports. “In order to understand the speed benefits of the Envoy Pro mini, I went up to Amazon and bought a top-reviewed Kingston USB 3.0 thumb drive, in this case a 16GB unit, for all of about five bucks. By comparison, the 240GB Envoy Pro mini is $169. But it’s also a heck of a lot faster… In fact, the Envoy Pro mini is so fast, it’s possible to actually do production work right on the drive, rather than on an internal drive.”
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MacDailyNews Note: OWC Envoy Pro mini High Speed USB 3.0 Flash Drives come in three storage capacities, ranging from around $100 to $265:
• 120GB Envoy Pro mini Ultra-Portable SSD
• 240GB Envoy Pro mini Ultra-Portable SSD
• 480GB Envoy Pro mini Ultra-Portable SSD