Are there other flash drives with hardware write protection?

Question

Data protection

Actually, somehow a problem suddenly arose: I can’t find a USB3.0 flash drive with hardware write protection on sale (at an adequate price). For several years I used the Chinese Netac U355, but they disappeared from sale even on Aliexpress. American Kanguru with delivery - 5 thousand rubles each. for 32 GB. It has become hard to find the good old QUMO Yin and Yang, and the USB2.0 speed with the current data volumes is frankly not enough.
Does anyone know other options?

Answer 1

The most stupid and absolutely easily accessible option is to take a card reader in the format of a USB stick (there are a lot of them on Ali) and stick a regular SD photo flash drive into it. All of them, as well as adapters from SD to microSD, are equipped with an engine that disables recording by hardware. More precisely, the card reader has this function, which is triggered at the desired position of this engine.
A bonus to this option is compactness (one card reader is enough for a bunch of miniature photo flash drives) and low cost (photo flash drives are cheaper than conventional ones of equal volume).
Here is a card reader with a side (not very convenient, besides open) position of the flash drive:
But with a closed one - it's much more convenient:
As for speed, among SD/microSD there are very high-speed ones (up to 90 Mbps or more), but the fact that there are a lot of blue USB-3.0 among USB card readers can be seen in the photo.