When it finished, scrolling through my library was unbearably slow and it would intermittently freeze, covers would appear blank, and so on and so forth.

When I loaded my movie library of 700 Blu Ray rips, it took about 8 hours to process. The next flash drive I tried was a PNY 64GB: I even tried pointing a fan at it while it was formatting, and still the same result. When I pulled the drive out, I nearly burned my fingers as it was scorching hot. It spent 20 minutes trying, then gave me a format failure message. For instance, I tried using this Samsung 128GB Duo drive, which has mostly good reviews: I know read/write speeds are published for many models.but sometimes they are inaccurate and also may have other underlying issues. I just purchased the 16GB nVidia Shield 2017 version and want to expand the storage via a flash drive. This thread is for USB 3.0 flash drive recommendations, preferably from people who have actual experience with specific models. I posted this on the official Kodi forum but figure it might have better exposure here.

Best kodi for usb flash drive