One of my favorite aspects of doing what I do is being able to follow companies and set product lines as the mature. Often times the first year product is a solid concept, but the design and/or functionality could use some work. In this instance Imation took their base 2-in-1 Link Mobile Express micro USB flash drive and made some solid improvements to its size and speeds.
Comparing new mobile USB drive you can see how much smaller they made it. They took away the fun, but clunky, flip cover operations of the drive and gave it a sleek slide action to cover and protect the micro USB plug. If we compare it to a real world item, like a penny, you can see just how ridiculously small it really is.
To boost the speeds of the new Link Mobile Express they upped the drive from USB 2.0 to USB 3.0. When I ran a speed comparison of the two through CrystalDiskMark it is apparent that the speeds of the drive have drastically improved.
1st gen Imation Link Mobile ExpressÂ
2nd gen Imation Link Mobile Express
I ran a similar test using A1 SD Bench app on the Note 4 to get some basic hard line numbers and it also showed signs of improvements on the mobile front as well.
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