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any good usb pen drives?
prost
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I get the impression they only last 1-2 years, if that. The speed is important too.
I'm interested in 1-4Gb.
I'm interested in 1-4Gb.
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Hi prost
I bought one of these 4GB Sandisk USB memory stick last year from play.com (it was £17.99 at the time) works fine even with my Xbox 360 and Divx player and never had any problems, now it only £13.99
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/3297167/SanDisk-Cruzer-Micro-4GB-USB-Flash-Drive/Product.html
or this 8G one for £17.99 http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/3435681/Sandisk-Cruzer-Micro-U3-USB-Flash-Drive-8GB/Product.html
you could also try dabs.com0 -
kingston are cheap enough and have a lifr time warranty on them...all mine are kingston and haven't had any pro's with them oldest one is 4 years old now...
Plans for 2009
1/ Get fit. 2/ Get my figure back. 3/ Get the MAN BACK! :kisses2::happylove
contrary to popular belief, I am all Woman.0 -
It is all to do with the number of I/O ( Input / Outputs ) that the unit does rather than in time. So if you use it alot then it will not last as long as some one who uses it less. All Saves, Copies and Reads count.The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke0 -
You should also consider a Pen Drive that has some sort of encryption built in.
Have a look in PCworld. They have an upto Half Price sale at the moment :beer:0 -
I use Samsung ( amongst others ) very fast, very solid build.;)0
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Corsair.
Don't know about you, but my data is important to me, and I've had problems in the past with cheap/free usb keys.Please use OpenDocument (ISO 26300) format (.odt - .ods - .odp - .odg) for attachments0 -
Corsair.
Don't know about you, but my data is important to me, and I've had problems in the past with cheap/free usb keys.
Agree with Corsair suggestion (very good flash drives). Also agree with the cheap drives comment from personal experience."She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
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Corsair here also: rugged, fast, reliable: not the cheapest, nor the smallest
BLOODBATH IN THE EVENING THEN? :shocked: OR PERHAPS THE AFTERNOON? OR THE MORNING? OH, FORGET THIS MALARKEY!
THE KILLERS :cool:
THE PUNISHER :dance: MATURE CHEDDAR ADDICT:cool:0 -
I usually use Kingstons as they get good reviews and have a long warranty. There are some Kingstons with Data Traveller security already on them, or you can download and use TrueCrypt on almost any USB flash drive ( and on your PC, of course!) which is one of the best encryption programs around. And it's free
. www.truecrypt.org 0
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