... After successful activation, the stick achieves a maximum of 165 MByte/s for reading, 145 MByte/s for writing, and the write rate drops to a meagre 3 MByte/s with many small files - but this is similar with other sticks. If you want to have your data not only locally but also in the cloud, you can install the enclosed synchronisation software; this then takes up corresponding space in Dropbox & Co...