As a portable flash drive, the Samsung USB 3.1 BAR Plus is designed to take a beating. This flash drive can also withstand being dropped into water. Plus, it can be slipped around in a bag or backpack. It can also protect itself when put through an X-ray machine. It is also magnet-proof and temperature resistant. More importantly, this Samsung USB 3.1 BAR Plus flash drive has a key ring that makes it hard to lose.This Samsung USB 3.1 flash drive has a simple design with harder edges. You have a choice of two colors: titanium gray and champagne silver. The company name is on the top of the drive and the capacity is on the bottom. As for the performance of the drive, we ran IOMeter on the HP Z2 Mini Workstation. As far as sequential speeds are concerned, the read and write speeds of the Samsung BAR plus are 283.48 MB/s and 61.84 MB/s respectively. For the SanDisk Extreme Pro, it’s 415.4 MB/s for reading and 353.7 MB/s. Compared to Samsung BAR 3.0, there is a big improvement when using 3.1 with the original read and write numbers of 47.61 MB/s and 43.75 MB/s. At 2 MB random, the Samsung BAR Plus 3.1 read and write speeds are 269.31 MB/s and 56.01 MB/s, while the SanDisk wins with 321.92 MB/s read and 187.19 MB/s write. However, the Samsung BAR 3.0 only has 32.94 MB/s read and 15.93 MB/s write. At 4K Random, the Samsung BAR Plus 3.1 boasts a performance of 3,009 IOPS on reads and 1,884 IOPS on writes. This shows that there is a big improvement over the previous version with 965.23 IOPS for reading and 22.07 IOPS for writing.
