Saturday 11 June 2016

Simpeak 32GB flash drive (USB 3.0 and Apple connection)


Rating: 4/5

Review:
A good, versatile flash drive



I was sent this flash drive for review, and I think it's a very good quality, versatile item.  It's well made, pretty quick and can be used with both PCs and Apple devices.

The drive is light but has a good solid feel to it.  It's well made in tough plastic and is a subdued, slightly smoky pink colour which, surprisingly, I rather like.  It has a USB connector at one end (it's USB 3.0) and a lightning connector at the other, so it's an excellent way to carry extra files, music and the like to access on an Apple device, but it also works perfectly well as a normal USB flash drive.

In use, it's very good – and it comes with a good manual, too. It's plug-and-play on my Windows 10 PC and there's a whisker under 30GB of available space.  From USB 2.0 ports I get write speeds around 15MB/s which is good – and it will be much faster with USB 3.0, of course.  Music and video play fine from it both via the USB and lightning connections, and it just does the job without any fuss.

The only tiny gripe I have is that it's a little wide, so if you plug this into one of two adjacent USB ports, it will block the other.  (It's fine in a hub where the ports are in a transverse configuration, of course.)  It's a small inconvenience, but mat be worth mentioning.

That minor niggle aside, this is a very good drive.  It is expensive for a 32GB flash drive (hence the four- rather than five-star rating), but it also serves as a memory expansion for Apple devices, it's stylish and it is well made.  If you need the flexibility of the lightning connector, I think this will do you very well and I can recommend it.

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