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USB stick

loulou41
loulou41 Posts: 2,871 Forumite
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Do you buy brand ones? Cannot decide between kingston and scandisk at less than £10 for 4gb, that's must be a good buy!! Will only use it for copying the odd files. Thanks

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  • totalsolutions
    totalsolutions Posts: 3,110 Forumite
    Yes I do. They will be just fine, get either - do you mean Sandisk- that will be the one.
  • nomoneytoday
    nomoneytoday Posts: 4,871 Forumite
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    Either Sandisk or Kingston will be fine. I would go for the fastest transfer rate given for your required capacity as the price difference will be neglible between the two :)
  • [Deleted User]
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    loulou41 wrote: »
    Do you buy brand ones? Cannot decide between kingston and scandisk
    Yes I buy branded ones. Either will be fine. I personally own a Sandisk stick.
  • outlaw777
    outlaw777 Posts: 881 Forumite
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    Yes you should buy a reputable branded one and I would also recommend one with encrptyed security in case the files you have are private.
  • [Deleted User]
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    outlaw777 wrote: »
    Yes you should buy a reputable branded one and I would also recommend one with encrptyed security in case the files you have are private.
    This shouldn't be a deciding factor given there are many free software alternatives you can use once you've bought the USB stick.
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    edited 30 March 2010 at 4:40PM
    Play are doing a kingston 4GB for £7.49 - don't use flash drives as your only backup, very easy to corrupt or lose. Generic one's from a legitimate source are fine too, and generally cheaper per GB, if write speeds are important to you, watch out for different speeds.
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  • outlaw777
    outlaw777 Posts: 881 Forumite
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    Deleted_User wrote: »
    This shouldn't be a deciding factor given there are many free software alternatives you can use once you've bought the USB stick.

    Like what ones?
  • Cricri
    Cricri Posts: 579 Forumite
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    I don't always buy branded ones, but mostly. Also, I don't buy cheap big capacity branded ones from the far east, they're probably fake. Look for "Kingston 128GB" on eBay for example: people selling them are either from China, or from UK who sell them (most probably from the former) "because they don't quite work" (No, really? But they were really cheap bargains weren't there? Too good to be true heh?).
  • gordikin
    gordikin Posts: 4,422 Forumite
    outlaw777 wrote: »
    Like what ones?

    Like Truecrypt
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