Our team is looking for the fastest possible USB device that functions the same as a USB drive. Currently we are trying to use a m.2 to usb device, but some devices do not allow us to boot from the m.2 to usb device. Is the only way to buy a regular USB drive?
You will always be bottle necked to the USB bus speed of the motherboard.
Right, but it seems some bios’ treat the USB m.2 differently than a regular USB drive. We are aware we are bottlenecked by the USB speed of the mobo, but we want to buy whatever is fastest.
https://ssd-tester.com/usb_flash_drive_test.php
Of the fastest listed, the only one I recognize is the Kingston DataTraveler, we’ve used them in the past with good luck, but not anywhere near the reported speeds of the Max listed in that chart.
The older DataTraveler worked fine in picky video recording devices, but that was many years ago.
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I assume the USB-A version is just as trustworthy.
The older versions we used were the A version, but again, not this newer MAX version. At the cost, it’s worth buying one and testing it, I may try one and move my Portable Apps over to it to get faster speeds. 1000MBps is really ripping for a USB flash drive and way faster than what I use right now for Portable Apps.
We never did kill any of the older drives, even after filling them several times with video recordings, I’m pretty confident that they will be a decent drive.