SanDisk Extreme Cruzer Contour - USB flash drive - 32 GB - Hi-Speed USB - black

I have been playing with the Contour 32Gig USB flash drive for a month now. I wanted to use it for carrying video files around. However, the problem is that it writes at an incredibly slow write speed--less than 4 Mb/s, as compared to the promised 25 Mb/s. I have tried different formatting, and the result is the same. Apparently others have complained about this problem on their website, and their support just ignores the issue. To me their silence says they know the drives are slower than what they proclaim in the packaging, bit they refuse to do anything about it.

Guess I'm off to buy a new flashdrive--$100 wasted.

I'm writing this review because of the other reviews saying that this drive was too slow. It's not that slow, but it's not as fast as it was advertised (25MB/s read and 18MB/s write).

Here are results from my small experiment:
4GB (2 files) - write around 10MB/s, read around 25MB/s
4GB (12 files) - write around 9.8MB/s, read around 25MB/s
4GB (34668 files) - write around 1.6MB/s, read around 15.3MB/s

If you look at my results, you'll see that the speed depends more on the number of files you have and less on the file size.

For large files, the reading speed is as advertised, 25MB/s, which is great. But writing large files is only around 10MB/s. It's takes around 6 minutes to write 4GB.

Writing a huge number of small files is very slow. Actually, I gave up after 10 minutes of timing and extrapolated the results. In that 10 minutes, I managed to write around 1GB of files on the USB drive. Reading speed is also...Read more

Hi Speed??? Gotta be kidding!!! I understand that the real life conditions are different from the test lab conditions but write speed 14 times lower than the one declared - that's too much!!! I even didn't reach 1.5 Mb/s! Tried it on two different PCs, Vista and XP. I have old 4Gb Apacer, even that one gives me about 8-9 Mb/s. So if I'd like to fill up the whole 32 Gb I would spend the day - that is ridiculous, especially when for the same money (even less!) you can get a half Tb 2.5" HDD.
Nice design though (though, somewhat big), but totally useless unless you gotta use it as a jewelry on your neck :)