have I bought a fast stick?

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I bought a sandisk cruzer extreme 16GB

I read this post 

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/All-SanDisk-USB-Flash-Drives/Poor-write-speed-ob-16GB-cruzer/td-p/245326

It says the cruzer is slow  and get an extreme or ultra.

The one I bought is a cruzer extreme… how is that in terms of speed?

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Hello,

the extreme is a very fast usb 3.0 drive with speeds up to 245MB/s read; 64GB up to 190MB/s write, 32GB up to 100MB/s write, 16GB up to 50MB/s write

here you can find more information about the drive you bought

http://www.sandisk.com/products/usb/drives/extreme/

have fun!!