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Says “read” beside its figure, three separate times

SanDisk Ultra Flair, 128 GB, USB 3.0, USB-A, 150 MB/s read stated, metal body

The drive on this shelf that labels its own number: 150 MB/s, and the word “read” beside it in the title and again in the contents line, with nothing at all said about writing.

SanDisk Ultra Flair 128 GB flash drive with a black and silver metal body and a USB Type-A plug

SanDisk Ultra Flair, 128 GB, USB 3.0, USB-A, 150 MB/s read stated, metal body

The drive on this shelf that labels its own number: 150 MB/s, and the word “read” beside it in the title and again in the contents line, with nothing at all said about writing.

Capacity
128 GB — stated in the title and again in the fifth bullet. The maker’s decimal figure, reported here in the maker’s unit
USB generation
USB 3.0 — stated in the second bullet and again in the fifth, which names the product as a SanDisk Ultra Flair USB 3.0 flash drive. No USB 3.1 or 3.2 designation appears
Stated link rate
Not published on the listing as a class rate — no figure in gigabits per second is given anywhere. The only rate on the page is 150 MB/s, which the listing attaches to the drive rather than to the port
Connector type
Type-A — stated in the title, which calls it a USB-A drive. No second connector is named and no Type-C variant is described
Stated read figure
150 MB/s — stated in the title as up to 150 MB/s for reading, and again in the fifth bullet as 150 MB/s read. The second bullet attaches the same number to USB 3.0 performance without naming a direction, so two of the three mentions say plainly which operation it describes
Stated write figure
Not published on the listing — no writing figure appears in any of the five bullets. The third bullet claims a feature film transferred onto the drive in under 30 seconds, which describes a write operation as a duration rather than as a rate, and names no file size to go with it
Body design
A metal casing described as robust and shock-resistant in the third bullet, with a slim design named as the reason it looks the way it does. No cap and no retracting mechanism is mentioned, and no dimensions or weight are given
Keyring provision
Not published on the listing — no loop and no eyelet is named. The photograph is the only source, and this page does not read specifications off photographs
Stated ingress rating
Not published on the listing — the shock resistance claimed in the third bullet is not a water or dust rating, and no IP code appears
Warranty length
Not published on the listing — what the first bullet does publish is a one-year subscription to RescuePRO recovery software, which is a licence period and not a warranty on the drive
Amazon reference
B015CH1PJU (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
0619659136710
  • Puts the word “read” beside its own figure, which four listings on this shelf never do
  • Ships with a named recovery utility and states how long the subscription runs
  • No write figure at all, on a drive whose read figure is the highest number printed here

Best for: A machine with Type-A sockets where files come off the drive more often than they go on to it — a media library carried between computers rather than a working folder.

≈ $26 / £19 / 19 €
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Specifications

Capacity
128 GB — stated in the title and again in the fifth bullet. The maker’s decimal figure, reported here in the maker’s unit
USB generation
USB 3.0 — stated in the second bullet and again in the fifth, which names the product as a SanDisk Ultra Flair USB 3.0 flash drive. No USB 3.1 or 3.2 designation appears
Stated link rate
Not published on the listing as a class rate — no figure in gigabits per second is given anywhere. The only rate on the page is 150 MB/s, which the listing attaches to the drive rather than to the port
Connector type
Type-A — stated in the title, which calls it a USB-A drive. No second connector is named and no Type-C variant is described
Stated read figure
150 MB/s — stated in the title as up to 150 MB/s for reading, and again in the fifth bullet as 150 MB/s read. The second bullet attaches the same number to USB 3.0 performance without naming a direction, so two of the three mentions say plainly which operation it describes
Stated write figure
Not published on the listing — no writing figure appears in any of the five bullets. The third bullet claims a feature film transferred onto the drive in under 30 seconds, which describes a write operation as a duration rather than as a rate, and names no file size to go with it
Body design
A metal casing described as robust and shock-resistant in the third bullet, with a slim design named as the reason it looks the way it does. No cap and no retracting mechanism is mentioned, and no dimensions or weight are given
Keyring provision
Not published on the listing — no loop and no eyelet is named. The photograph is the only source, and this page does not read specifications off photographs
Stated ingress rating
Not published on the listing — the shock resistance claimed in the third bullet is not a water or dust rating, and no IP code appears
Warranty length
Not published on the listing — what the first bullet does publish is a one-year subscription to RescuePRO recovery software, which is a licence period and not a warranty on the drive
Amazon reference
B015CH1PJU (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
0619659136710

On the listing

A 128 GB SanDisk Ultra Flair on a USB-A plug, published at up to 150 MB/s for reading; RescuePRO software for recovering lost or damaged files, with a one-year subscription included; USB 3.0 performance quoted at up to 150 MB/s for faster transfers; a claim that a feature film moves onto the drive in under 30 seconds; a body called robust and shock-resistant with a slim design; password protection so private files stay private; and a contents line naming the drive as a 128 GB Ultra Flair USB 3.0 in a robust and elegant metal housing with password protection and 150 MB/s reading, in black.

One hundred and fifty megabytes a second, with the direction written down

Three mentions of the same number, and two of them say what it is for.

The title says up to 150 MB/s for reading. The contents line says 150 MB/s reading. The second bullet says USB 3.0 performance of up to 150 MB/s and leaves the direction out.

That labelling matters more than the figure. A drive that prints one number and does not say which operation it belongs to has, in practice, printed its read figure — that is the flattering one, and it is the one a datasheet leads with. Here the guessing is unnecessary because the maker has done the labelling itself, twice.

The half of the pair that is not here

Nothing on this page says how quickly files go onto the drive.

The nearest thing is the third bullet: a feature film transferred in under 30 seconds. As a claim that is unusable, because no film has a fixed size. A compressed film might be under two gigabytes; an uncompressed one is many times that; and without a size the sentence is a mood rather than a measurement.

Two of the seven drives in this hub publish a write figure outright. One of them publishes 130 MB/s for reading and 30 MB/s for writing on the same drive, which is the shape of the gap this family lives with — and the reason a missing write figure is worth noticing rather than filling in.

Capacity, and the number a computer will show

The 128 GB here is a decimal count, as it is on every drive on this shelf. A machine counting in units of 1024 displays a smaller figure, and the file system takes its own share on top of that. One listing in this hub prints the usable figure itself; this one does not, and this page reports SanDisk’s number in SanDisk’s unit rather than producing a second one.

The metal body, the password, and the year that belongs to software

The third bullet gives a metal casing called robust and shock-resistant, with the slim shape offered as a design point. No cap is described. No dimensions and no weight are given.

The fourth names password protection as part of the product, which is a real distinction on this shelf: two of the seven drives here name encryption or password software, and the other five say nothing about it.

The year in the first bullet is a RescuePRO subscription. It is not a warranty, no warranty is stated, and the difference is worth keeping straight.

Before ordering

Check that the sockets you use are Type-A, because that is the only plug on this drive. Expect the copy onto it to be slower than the number on the box — how much slower is not published here — and treat the one-year figure as a software licence, because that is what the listing says it is.

Availability

Priced from 19 € to 27 € across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores the day this page was checked.

It is stocked on the American and British Amazon stores as well, in that country’s own currency. The range above leaves those out: it counts euro stores and no others.

Every figure in this section is what Keepa held on the day this page was last updated. Stock and prices move without warning.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 10 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

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    Capacity
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    Capacity
    128 GB — stated in the title, with the fifth bullet adding that the available storage is more than 115 GB and naming differing measurement standards as the reason the two figures differ. Both numbers are the maker’s own and both are reported here as printed; neither is calculated by this page
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    Capacity
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    Keyring provision
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    Slot count
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    Stated link rate
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    Internal or external form
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    Slot count
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    Simultaneous slot access
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    Stated protocol support
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    Cable arrangement
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    Amazon reference
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    EAN
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