- Hi, I'm Parris, and today, I'm reviewing a tech product.
This is a tiny, little flash drive that will connect both
to your phone, and to your computer.
You can use it in situations, like,
my daughter, Roxanna, a few weeks ago,
at her first K-pop concert,
who, over the course of the concert,
completely filled up the memory of her phone,
and by the end of the concert,
could hardly take even one more picture,
or if you don't want to fill up the memory of your phone,
you've got some video files, audio files
you'd like to watch and listen to over a 10-hour flight,
but you don't want to load up your phone
and fill it up with that stuff.
With this, you can keep all the bulky files, here,
leaving lots of free space on your phone
to record when someone doesn't wanna give up their seat
and the airline personnel drag them
down the aisle and off the plane.
Let's see how easy this is to use,
and how well it works.
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I picked up this SanDisk Dual Drive 32 gigabyte capacity
drive, over at Fry's, for about $20.
It does come in larger and smaller capacities,
also, this is a Type-C connector
that will pop out of the side.
That's what my phone uses.
Some older phones, you want the Micro USB,
or on an iPhone, you might want a lightning connector.
On most phones, it's supposed to be as easy as
plugging it in, and then you can access the files
or access the device to put files onto,
but if that doesn't work, there's a SanDisk Memory Zone app
you can download from the App Store,
the Google Play store, that should get it to work.
Again, I picked it up for about $20.
You can find out more about it
at the link down below this video.
I was thinking there might be more instructions inside,
but nope, just the device itself.
I did look at their website and get an idea
of how it works, and it's pretty tiny.
On the top, there's a slider that lets you slide out
Type-C connector.
Alternatively, your standard Type-A USB connector,
to plug into your computer.
Here's a close-up view.
The only thing you have with it
is a little slider piece on top.
That's in neutral mode, and Type-C on the side,
and that's locked in place
until I push this down and slide back over.
Is it as easy as simply plugging it in?
And the nice thing with USB Type-C
is it doesn't matter which direction you plug it in.
Didn't make any sounds, and no lights appeared on this.
I understand if I go to File Manager,
I should be able to access it.
File Manager's right here.
It's showing the internal storage in my
Google Drive account, so it's not showing up here.
By the way, this phone is a OnePlus Five,
running Android 7.1.
Now, I tried unplugging it, switching it over,
plugging it in the other way.
You're not supposed to have to do that,
but just in case, but still, no sign of detecting this.
I've got my OnePlus Three with a cracked screen, here,
and it has the same type of connector.
I'm gonna try it on that, but first I'm gonna try it
on my desktop computer, using the Type-C connector.
There's a spot on the motherboard to plug this in,
and it showed up immediately, plugged into the computer
via the Type-C connector, so that is working.
I think while I have it, here, I'll move
a video file and an audio file onto it, so I can try
to play that once I get it working with the phone.
This is a good time to test out the transfer speeds.
This is a three gigabyte video file.
Well, we were hoping for faster.
Normally, when I do this from the SD card in the camera,
I get about 80, so it's running about half that speed.
Oh, uh oh.
That's one single file, so ...
Mmm, after the first gigabyte, it looks like
the speed slows down a lot more.
This is my OnePlus Three phone.
As soon as I plus the drive into this,
it popped up with this notification.
It did see the drive,
and there are the two files that are on it.
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So, the playback speed from this is plenty fast
for playing the video, which is good,
as slow as it is to write it to drive, originally,
and it works incredibly easily with my OnePlus Three.
It shows up in File Manager, along with
my internal storage and my Google Drive.
Here are the files and folders on it.
I would like to see if I can transfer
something from this phone on to it, how easy that is.
Alright, I finally found a way
where I can go into the photos, select it,
choose to copy to ...
I had to create a new folder on the SanDisk drive,
called Test Photos.
There's one photo in there already.
It's now copying the photo from the internal storage
of the phone, into the folder
called Test Photos, here, in this drive.
And when I'm done with it, I can easily go into Settings,
Storage, and I see the Storage Device is here,
including the SanDisk.
This is the symbol for eject,
and it's now safe to remove,
but that isn't gonna work for my OnePlus Five,
which, still, sees nothing when I plug this in.
So, I'll go to the Google Play store,
download the SanDisk Memory Zone app,
and see if that'll get it to work.
I've installed the app, set it up,
it sees all my storage devices,
except it says Samsung Google Drive not detected.
I can't explain why it'll work on my OnePlus Three
but not my OnePlus Five.
Something really new in the phone
that just doesn't recognize this?
While that's frustrating, I can get this to work
on the phone that I don't use anymore,
but I can't get it to work on my brand new phone.
I guess it's possible if OnePlus is aware of this,
they may release an update in the future, for the phone,
that would allow this to work.
The feature in Android is called On The Go, OTG,
and it's supposed to be, by default, working on
all relatively modern smart phones.
There is a web page on the SanDisk site
that lists compatible phones,
so I'll link to that down below this video,
so you can make sure your phone is on there, first.
I don't think the OnePlus Three is on there,
but it worked, but this didn't.
As for using this as a regular flash drive,
switch over to that.
See how the data transfer speeds are this way.
Just as advertised, 150 megabytes per second.
Plenty quick reading.
Too bad it gets so slow writing.
Let's see what the speeds are, via the USB A-Connection,
but I think they're gonna be the same.
40 initially, and then we get to about one gigabyte,
and then they drop down to 12 to 15,
and there is goes.
While I really like the idea of this,
and I want one of these,
but I need one that works with my phone.
I did see, at Fry's, they had a Sony
for about the same price.
Very tiny, just like a little nub,
so it would barely stick out of your phone,
and I thought, "That's awfully small and easy to get lost,"
so I thought something closer to
a traditional flash drive size would be better,
but I really want to get something like to use as a place
to move files over on my phone, it just won't be this one.
Now, this did work with the OnePlus Three,
and it will work with a lot of phones,
so if you're still interested in the Dual Drive USB
Type-C, or micro USB, or flash drive,
I'll put a link to this product, down below this video,
as well as the list of phones it's supposed to work with.
Honestly, too, I would like faster write speeds
to this, so it wouldn't take so long
to move those big movie files over
when I want to use this for watching some movies
on the airplane, but for 20 bucks, it's not bad.
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