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Brand

‎Patriot

Item model number

‎PEF256GSMNUSB

Hardware Platform

‎Mac

Item Weight

‎0.353 ounces

Product Dimensions

‎0.36 x 1.06 x 2.83 inches

Item Dimensions LxWxH

‎0.36 x 1.06 x 2.83 inches

Manufacturer

‎Patriot

ASIN

‎B00B964QFO

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

‎No

Date First Available

‎February 1, 2013

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405 ratings

4.2 out of 5 stars

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Amazon.com Return Policy:You may return any new computer purchased from Amazon.com that is "dead on arrival," arrives in damaged condition, or is still in unopened boxes, for a full refund within 30 days of purchase. Amazon.com reserves the right to test "dead on arrival" returns and impose a customer fee equal to 15 percent of the product sales price if the customer misrepresents the condition of the product. Any returned computer that is damaged through customer misuse, is missing parts, or is in unsellable condition due to customer tampering will result in the customer being charged a higher restocking fee based on the condition of the product. Amazon.com will not accept returns of any desktop or notebook computer more than 30 days after you receive the shipment. New, used, and refurbished products purchased from Marketplace vendors are subject to the returns policy of the individual vendor.

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The Patriot Memory Supersonic Magnum USB 3.0 flash drive delivers unprecedented performance in a stylish form factor with capacities up to 256GB. Utilizing 8-Channel technology, Supersonic Magnum achieves and 200MB/s and 120MB/s for the 64GB/128GB. The Patriot Supersonic read/write speeds up to 250MB/s and 160MB/s respectively for the 256GB Magnum USB 3.0 flash drive is available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities and carries a 5-year warranty.

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Patriot 256GB Supersonic Magnum Series USB 3.0 Flash Drive

With Up To Read 260MB/sec & Write 160MB/sec

With 8-channel technology and USB 3.0 ready, the Supersonic Magnum provides read/write speeds of up to 260MB/s (read) and 160MB/s (write) for ultra fast file transfers.

Safely Take Your Data Anywhere.

A custom all aluminum housing offers best in class protection from wear and tear.

Key Features

USB 3.0 compliant
8-Channel technology for fast read/write performance
Up to 260MB/s read
Up to 160MB/s write
Backwards compatible with USB 2.0
Aluminum housing for shock resistance up to 15G
Compatible with Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Linux 2.4 and later, Mac OS9, X

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5 star		63%
4 star		16%
3 star		7%
2 star		6%
1 star		8%

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Furman O. Ashley

Almost 128GB but Still Mega Storage

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2015

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I do not currently have any USB 3.0 ports. Yes I know for as long as they've been out I might as well be using an abacus but in any case, I cannot speak to this device's USB 3.0 capabilities. For the USB 2.0 I have on my computer it works fine. I transferred 100mb in about 15 seconds just to check it and it is plug and play with Microsoft automatically searching, downloading and installing drivers / software to make it compatible. The reason for four stars is that when I look at the properties in Windows Explorer, empty it shows 256KB used but then only 117GB of available free space so I'm not sure what happen to the other 10.7GB has gone since this is advertised as a 128GB USB storage device. That is still a whole lot of storage space for something you can drop in your pocket and not really notice it. Combined with the ease of use and I still say you can't beat it for the money. I recommend this product.

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Wix Diamond

Patriot 256GB flash drive

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2013

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Very fast. A great alternative to carrying around a portable hard drive. I write scientific papers and textbooks and need my bibliographies. It is problematic to use biblio software with data stored in the cloud and multiple computers. This is the best alternative.

I was concerned about losing the cap. So I drilled a tiny hole in the side of the cap and put a piece of 15 lb monofilament fishing line through it with a big knot in the end. I tied the other end of the line to the plastic handle on the other end of the drive. OCD? Maybe, but I won't lose the cap.

I absolutely love this product.

Update on Black Friday 2013
Yesterday, I was working and was using two bibliographic software programs open at the same time. I got the rainbow wheel of death on my mid2012 macbook pro retina. I needed to reboot. After that the drive is not recognizable on either PCs or macs. I don't know if it was my doing, incredibly crappy software or a drive failure. However, I can't even find the drive on any of my computers to be able to use a disk utility to reformat it. Since it is too small to be a paper weight, it is now expensive and useless. I am in the process of contacting all three companies involved. I had backed up stuff on 11/2, but it's still very inconvenient.

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C. Long

Super Fast but no activity light

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2013

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Using CrystalDiskMark to measure this drive, it measured a sequential read of 241 MB/s (yes, 241!) and a sequential write of 150 MB/s. When transferring large multi-gigabyte files from my fast hard drive, I seem to max out at about 120MB/s but that's as fast as my hard drive can read data. In other words, this thing is faster than my already very fast hard drive when talking about transferring large files. As for writing smaller files, these have always been flash drives' downside, but I can tell you that this drive smokes my other flash drives on this - including a 32GB Patriot USB 3.0 drive I own. Real-World transferring of mp3's to this drive produced about 40MB/s. It does random 4k writes substantially better than my other 2 Patriot drives.

There's no activity light on the drive, however this thing writes so fast that in some ways it's almost (but not quite) a moot point. I mean, you usually have a writing indicator on your screen when you save/write. Sometimes with drives though, the writing indicator can be removed before all the data actually gets written to the drive. But this drive is so fast that based on the numbers I'm seeing in CrystalDiskMark, I'd think just counting to 2 (or 5 if you're paranoid) after you save/write to the drive (and all writing indicators are gone from your screen) before physically removing the drive and you'll be just fine. (if you are in the habit of using the "safely remove hardware" option instead you don't even need to worry about this).

The cap on mine has not come off and while not "tight", it's not overly loose either. All in all, I am very satisfied with this drive!

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RO

Product good- seller disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2013

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I need this for a project early Jan and most sellers showed out of stock. OneDealOutlet Online showed it as in stock so I ordered it there @ $174 in spite of other sellers (out of stock) advertising lower prices. I guess I'm a bit spoiled by Amazon Prime because I couldn't believe it when the est arrival date was 3 weeks. I figured it was conservative but after 2 1/2 weeks waiting for a USPS delivery I was starting to get nervous. Finally got it and was ticked to find that the same device was avail on prime now for $133 ~sigh~.
That said the device itself lives up to it's published specs. Write speeds average 130MB/s for a single large file (specing it with a large number of small files is not fair to the device due to the large system overhead o dealing with creating all those file handlers). Read backs are exceeding 300MB/s though I think my systems Rapid storage tech SSD caching is skewing that figure. With that in mind I compared performance against a number of 2.0 sticks (a couple professed to be multi channel high perf) and found it consistently beat all (R&W) by a factor of 10 or more. Those who expected it to meet the USB 3.0 spec of 4.8 Gb/s must have skipped over the device specs that only claimed 120MB/s Write and 200MB/s read. As long as the memory holds up for a reasonable number of uses I'm happy.

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Quack Quack

Fast and works great with Mac!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 11, 2013

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I was using a Sandisk mini usb stick to copy 3d movies from my Macbook to play on a 3d tv which takes a usb stick and it was super slow, taking about 10 minutes to copy a single 2gb movie file. okay, i knew i did not have the fastest or best sandisk as it was one of the 'mini' ones, but i was worried it was because the macbook did not support usb 3.0 and thats why it was slow.

however, after reading the reviews of this device i tried it out, and it is awesome! super fast! i just got it, copied a 2gb movie file in about 15 seconds ...

so if anyone was wondering, it is fast on a macbook even with usb2.0.

very happy with it.

also note : the size is quite a bit larger than a typical memory stick so do mind you have the physical space to plug such a thing in. its about 5-6cm protruding when plugged in and about 3cm wide and 1cm high so dont expect to plug anything in the neighboring usb port while you'v got this in. for me the size was irrelevant as i only want something to throw into the tv for sharing large movie files.

note2: i did install mac ntfs support (opensource stuff, just google it), so that i could reformat it as NTFS as this was the only way i could get greater than 4gb file support for this tv, as my tv does not recognize the new standard exFAT but that is not a limitation of this memory stick thats just a quirk of my TV, so just a tip for anyone else in the same boat.

My TV is a Toshiba 47" smart 3d led : 47VL963

5 stars! could not have wished for more! exactly as described.

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Michael Hutchinson

Great stick - shame about the rubbish clip on cap fitting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2014

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Great stick, very reliable
BUT Rubbish grip when attaching the cap to the end.
It is for ever dropping off and getting lost even with the briefest tap.
Had to resort to driving in a sliver of paper into the cap head to tighten the gripers and then had to super glue the receptor on the back of the stick to stop the now "tighter" cap pulling off the end and exposing the circuit board!
Pathetic oversight in design for what is a VERY reliable and quick USB 3 stick.
My ten year old kingston stick stick and clip on cap cips on as firmly now as it did the day it was bought.
Gets a litte warm in use, but not uncomfortablely or worryingly so.
The width and height are a bit wider than ideal and can prevent stick being able to connect where usb slots either side are already in use or usb slot is sunk back a long way.
Shame but recommend looking for a slimmer model with better cap fitting!

Duarte Ramos

Fast thumbdrive, suitable for portable apps

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2013

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Great thumbdrive, suitable as a backup solution or as a "carry all your home with you".
It is a bit large (in terms of physical size), may cause problems with other peripherals in contiguous USB ports, but it is also light and fast, and very sturdy with its metal body.

I lead a "nomadic computer life" divided between my home computer and work computer, but I like keeping my files, and most importantly my programs, and all it's settings handy and with me all the time. To accomplish this I use portable software (no installation needed, saves settings to the program folder) like the one provided at PortableApps.com, on a daily basis, even at home.
This is the first thumbdrive I used that is fast enough and suitable for running portable apps directly from it, it is not as fast as an external hard drive unfortunately (I notice a delay in certain actions, especially searching or indexing) which I did not notice with my external HDD over USB 2.0. Still it is very fast for running some pretty complex apps (Like Photo editing GIMP, Firefox and Blender 3D Modeling), even through USB 2.0 formatted with exFAT file system. (Will try soon with FAT and NTFS to see if there are any performance gains)

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Experienced IT Man

Wow! This is FAST!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2014

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Wow!! This is fast! On a USB 3.0 connection it is amazingly fast. I use live backup of my important folders and software that writes to the stick whenever a file changes. I currently have 360MB Outlook PST that gets backed-up (written) in 7 seconds! As a bonus Windows 7 ReadyBoost was happy to use it with a 4gig cache and that seems to have speeded up my laptop.

One minor irritation is that it is wider than other sticks because of the electronics that makes it so fast. I bought an AmazonBasic USB 3.0 4-port hub and both are working very well. I recommend you buy a hub or you will lose a usb port on most laptops due to its width.

Gary F

Very very very fast

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 11, 2015

Verified Purchase

When I bought this stick, I benchmarked it and it was by far the fastest USB stick I've ever owned.
The details are hazy (purchased last year) but it was in the order of 120-150MB/s write speeds, and read speeds were slightly higher.
After quite a bit of use, it is still working well. Doesn't get excessively warm in use, unlike some fast sticks which can be terribly hot after being used for a short period.

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Memory Storage Capacity	256 GB
Brand	Patriot
Hardware Interface	USB 3.0
Read Speed	250 Megabytes Per Second

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Patriot 256GB Supersonic Magnum Series USB 3.0 Flash Drive

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Safely Take Your Data Anywhere.

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