USB 1GB Flash Pen Drive £12.99

equitydealer

Jo4 wrote:

Dad wants one of these except he wants it to hold 4 or 5 Gb, which should I get for him? The reason he wants one so big is because he is scared of losing all his work on his computer and its total hard drive is 4.76 Gb if I remember correctly.

It is an old computer and even though he got a brand spanking new one he refuses to use it. Ooh well it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks! :rolleyes:

A large portion of your hard drive holds applications such as Windows and Microsoft Office. He won't need to back that up onto a USB drive, assuming he has the installation CDs for all applications.

A 1GB or 2GB USB drive should be enough for most people.

Jo4

THANKS for all the responses! Which usb 2GB flash drive pens are most reliable? I need 2, one for me and one for Dad!

OriginalDon

Jo4 wrote:

THANKS for all the responses! Which usb 2GB flash drive pens are most reliable? I need 2, one for me and one for Dad!

I got 2x Kingston U3 1GB.

1 from ebay | Just over £26 which at the time a few months ago was cheapest at £36.

1 from dvd.co.uk | for £17 roughly a month ago and it is now http://www.dvd.co.uk/product.asp?id=DTIU3-1GB

Kingston have 5 years warranty was my main reason, they are also well built as well. U3 lets you install programs onto your drive and take it wherever you go. For example I have firefox browser on there and use it at work. The benefits are all your private data is kept on the stick so no public machine will have the siites you visited

biglugs

Price per Gb is interesting, would you pay 25 quid per Gb, instead of 15?

It isn't that long (well early 90s) since I was buying mainframe disk storage as part of my job for a big company. We did a deal with IBM for 100GB of storage space for a little shy of £1,000,000 - yes there are six zeroes - making this about £10,000 a gigabyte. Doesn't the world change quickly?

My latest purchase was a 1GB memory stick with fabulous England colours, for £11.90 delivered from www.svp.co.uk

Stuartli

Micro direct are selling a 4GB pendrive for £23.49 so compared to £12.99 for 1GB this has to be a better deal.

This isn't a pen drive as most of us know one - it uses/supports CF Type II, Compact Flash Card. And 1.0"HDD Micro Drives...:-)

Savastore is selling a 2GB flash drive for £18.99 (plus p and P) - you are unlikely to find a cheaper one around for a while:

http://www.savastore.com/productinfo/product.aspx?catalog_name=Savastore&product_id=10291499&pid=2&tid=588

Stuartli

Stompa wrote:

Prices look good, and I see you can get 4% discount with QuidCo.

I'm a bit puzzled about the VAT though. It looks as though only items that cost more than £18 incur any VAT. So I could order many items each costing £17.99 (in a single order), and pay no VAT. Is that correct?

(This seems at odds with somewhere like 7dayshop, where the £18 limit seems to apply 'per consignment').

I may be wrong but I think that mymemory is an offshoot of 7DayShop

Stuartli

equitydealer wrote:

I take it you own/work for this outfit which is why it is being so heavily advertised on this thread by numerous new posters.

That is an arrogant assumption.

This online outlet - and lots of others - are regularly recommended on this and many other (usually computer related) forums; saving money is sensible and, which might come as a surprise to you, it's the main aim of the website you are now using...:-)

Jo4

What is the difference in the following,
Kingston 2GB Data Traveler 2 2.0 - USB Flash Drive, R.R.P. £44.99

Kingston 2GB Data Traveler USB 2.0 Flash Drive, R.R.P. £37.99

Kingston 2GB Data Traveler Elite USB Flash Drive, R.R.P. £97.99

Kingston 2GB Migo Data Traveler 2 Plus USB Flash Drive, R.R.P. £74.99

DazedByTheLight

Jo4 wrote:

Dad wants one of these except he wants it to hold 4 or 5 Gb, which should I get for him? The reason he wants one so big is because he is scared of losing all his work on his computer and its total hard drive is 4.76 Gb if I remember correctly.

It is an old computer and even though he got a brand spanking new one he refuses to use it. Ooh well it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks! :rolleyes:

If it is an old computer surely it is doubtful whether it even has an USB port?!

snuffy

Totally unrelated, how about looking into an online backup facility such as http://www.streamload.com/ for backing up essential items? If you have decent broadband then this shouldn't be a problem...