I would like to make a comment about the Micorcenter USB 3.0 Thumb drive, the green one that is in the picture.

When writing an image to it, I still only get about 7.5 MB/s, However when reading, I was getting 45 MB/s to where usually the other USB 2.0 thumb drive I have was toping out around 25 - 28 MB/s (Read) about 5.5 MB/s write.