Cheap, fast USB stick

pokerpad

Hi guys,

Can anybody recommend a USB stick for me?

I'm looking between 4gb - 16gb to transfer movies/music/pictures etc. The faster the better.

Between £5-£10 ??

Thanks

MoneySavingUser

Sandisk are cheap but tbh the transfer speeds aren't very quick

RussJK

pokerpad wrote: »

Hi guys,

Can anybody recommend a USB stick for me?

I'm looking between 4gb - 16gb to transfer movies/music/pictures etc. The faster the better.

Between £5-£10 ??

Thanks

Price, speed, size - pick two, at the expense of the other.

From experience, the slow (but cheap) USB drives I bought rarely get any use. You get genuine value for money by getting a fast USB drive simply because you'll use them all the time.

You're not going to get a 16gb <£11.99, let alone a speedy one. A properly fast 16gb is normally >£20, and you would be looking at Corsair and Patriot. Similarly, fast 8gb USB drives are still around £15 & upwards.

I would sooner get this:
8gb Patriot XT Boost 200x for £14.61
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000VE2RP6/ref=nosim/?!!!!!hotukdeals-21

than this:
Cheap 16gb Play.com branded £11.99, "minimum 3mb/sec"
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/play-com-16gb-usb-flash-drive-11-99-delivered-play/893226

You may also find it useful to get a cheap SD card if the devices you plan to transfer files support it. For instance:

Trascend 8gb Class 10 (10mb/sec write) for £7.19
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002WE6D44/ref=nosim/?!!!!!hotukdeals-21

Faster than any 8gb USB drive at that price.

zee_2

look up 7dayshop.com ,good service ,priced dropping all the time on sticks now.

aliEnRIK

Last week I bought a 16Gb Kingston G3 for just under 15 quid which is plenty fast enough for streaming HD etc

pokerpad

That's great guys - thanks for the help