The microcomputer maker, the Raspberry Pi foundation, has announced a speedy little USB flash drive designed for Pi models. Announced on Thursday, the Raspberry Pi Flash Drive costs from $30 (around £22) for 128GB of storage and $55 (around £40) for double that.
The aluminium enclosure is “easy to grasp and almost impossible to break” (don’t challenge us!), according to the Foundation, and the sleek look is underscored by an etched Raspberry Pi logo. As well as the durability, the Flash Drive has got it where it counts. The sustainable write speed is 75MB/s (128GB) and 150MB/s (256GB), but the company says the burst speeds just about push USB 3.0 as far as it will go.
And it won’t crap out on you when there’s a sudden disconnection and power failure either, according to the company, which put it through the test over tens of thousands of random power cycles.
“A USB flash drive is one of those small essentials you reach for from time to time to back up data or transfer files between your Raspberry Pi and substitute computers,” the company says.
“For basics like these, it’s tempting to reach for the cheapest thing on Amazon or whatever you find in your local supermarket, but you can easily end up with a device that has sluggish read and write speeds, fragile casing, or – worst of all – far less storage capacity than it claims.”
The best way to avoid all that? Get yourself one of these lovely compact hard drives and stay on brand.
