1st place: The SanDisk Extreme Pro – One of the Fastest USB Flash Drives.
Sandisk (now owned by Western Digital), has always offered some of the best, fastest, and most reliable flash drives money can buy. Providing up to 420 MB per second read speeds, and 380 MB per second write speeds, the SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD is an exceptional drive. Covering both speed and reliability, this is my 1st choice. I have used mine for several years to test hundreds of portable installs, without failure.