Paid £50 for 64gb usb flash drive

WatchTower · 20 Apr 2010 at 14:05

Popped up town to day and went to a shop that Buy, Sell and exchange. I picked up a Integral 64gb USB 2.0 flash drive for £50. Flash memory is expensive as you know and this seemed great value as some 32gb flash dives can cost £50. Do you think it was a good buy? As I hate being ripped off.

iamtheoneneo · 20 Apr 2010 at 14:21

for a usb drive yeh id say thats a good deal. but for a normal drive its a rip off.

bledd · 20 Apr 2010 at 14:41

I'd rather spend the £50 on a 1000gb hard drive

For me a 1gb usb drive is more than enough

WatchTower · 20 Apr 2010 at 14:51

I've already got a 1.5tb external harddrive. This is something I can stick in my pocket and take anywhere. I looked on a famous website and they're £117 on there so I pretty happy with this purchase.

Minstadave · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:17

Aren't there quite a few fakes floating around, show up to the OS as 64GB but actually will only let you write 16GB, just something to watch out for.

http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.co...ld-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/

John24 · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:50

If that's genuine you've got a bargain and a good drive.. I've got a 1GB Integral bought many years ago that's still going strong, used to use it for an ISO scratchpad during the many nLite test sessions, my SSD takes up that duty now. Think I paid about £55 for it... you can get em for a fiver now.

Unless they have gone downhill you've get a good one there.

mjones1 · 20 Apr 2010 at 17:02

A 1.8"hdd would have been much better for the money.

PaulyD · 20 Apr 2010 at 17:02

Indeed I would check this is legit, best way to test would be to copy 64gb of data to it and see if it works. A fake would error after x amount of data

Justintime · 20 Apr 2010 at 20:23

LOL i remember when 64mb was huge! I collect lost usb drives at work and keep them if they have no identifiable data and no one reports it missing after a week, 3 2GB, 3 4Gb, 7 1Gb and 4 8GB over the last academic year

There are programs to 'fill' a data drive with a preset file size, forgot the name but i've used it to test capacity before.

phill1978 · 21 Apr 2010 at 21:03

64gb of true portable data is a lot !

was thiking,a 64gb usb 3.0 enabled stick be cheaper than a 64gb SSD but id guess quite a difference in raw performance...but it would be a slient boot drive for a easy os like ubuntu.

phill1978 · 21 Apr 2010 at 21:03

Justintime said:
LOL i remember when 64mb was huge! I collect lost usb drives at work and keep them if they have no identifiable data and no one reports it missing after a week, 3 2GB, 3 4Gb, 7 1Gb and 4 8GB over the last academic year There are programs to 'fill' a data drive with a preset file size, forgot the name but i've used it to test capacity before.

makefile - large

is one i have

andy_mk3 · 22 Apr 2010 at 19:06

I much prefer my 120gb 2.5" drive in a usb powered caddy for portable storage.

uv · 22 Apr 2010 at 20:00

bledd. said:
For me a 1gb usb drive is more than enough

Unless you have Win7 install files/ubuntu running from USB sticks

I use my 4GB as a permanent Win7 boot disk, and my 8GB as a ubuntu/storage drive.

silversurfer · 23 Apr 2010 at 13:15

An esata flash drive would be faster then usb I think

What time will will win 7 load from your flash stick ?