FAR from as fast as they claim at writing new files... In fact, it is rather slow in my opinion, however, once they are on the drive, it is lightning fast. AND, unlike the competition's USB units, it has not crashed on me or lost data... so it is acceptable.
This XS2000 has shown great speed and reliability. I am very pleased with it and recommend it to others to use in situations where the speed to storage and access are required.
Great size, capacity and initial speed. Slows drastically when writing numerous, large files. Gets quite warm when transferring large amounts of files .
So far very happy with the purchase. The best about this drive is size. However, my laptop is not showing 36mb/sec speed during data transfer. I will try again and see if it's really fast. Only giving 4 Star due to limited speed, as I was expecting at least 1000ms/sec. :)