"Well, you can, but there are a couple of features that are pretty specific to the Raspberry Pi Flash Drive. The first is SMART health reporting and support for TRIM. While I've come across a few drives that had the chips to do this, I can't think of any other flash drives off the top of my head that offer this."
"It's also fast, especially the 256GB variant, which can achieve a sequential write speed of 150MB/s, double that of its smaller 128GB sibling. A lot of cheap flash drives I've tested have decent read speeds, but I've come across a lot of big-brand drives that have cripplingly slow write speeds, so it's good to see this model keeping to its marketing promises."
Raspberry Pi's flash drive combines durable, heat-dissipating aluminum construction with embossed capacity and logo, delivering a portable, removable storage option suitable for industrial and NAS use. The drive supports SMART health reporting and TRIM, enabling reliability for important data and potential use as a boot device. The 256GB variant reaches sequential write speeds of 150MB/s—twice that of the 128GB model—addressing common slow-write issues found in many flash drives. The form factor avoids the permanence of M.2 HAT+ solutions while offering higher speed and monitoring features beyond typical USB flash drives.
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