256GB flash drives at EasyFlash (42)

256GB holds a whole camera roll, video included

256GB fits about 59,000 phone photos or eleven hours of 4K phone video, enough for most full phone backups and for a working copy of a photo library. It is the smallest size we would pick for video work.

Look at the read speed as closely as the price. A 256GB drive at 100 MB/s needs about forty minutes to read back when full. At 1,000 MB/s it needs four. Video files are large, so the 4GB file limit of FAT32 also matters here: format the drive exFAT before copying long clips.

The twelve fastest 256GB options by the maker's read speed for that size. The grid above has every 256GB drive.