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Answer» Can you buy a poor quality flash drive? Like everything else, flash drive prices vary as much as or more so than other computer related components. I’ve seen 16GB flash drives priced from $15 to $50. Are there many differences in the quality of flash drives? ...Are there many differences in the quality of flash drives?...Quality or performance? Qualities are all about the same, performance varies greatly.Quote from: Computer_Commando on June 24, 2011, 10:54:21 AM Qualities are all about the same, performance varies greatly. What do you mean by this? I would consider performance to be a considered when evaluating the quality of a drive. I've bought several different brands of flash drive: A SanDisk Cruzer Mini (256MB) this served me well after it was given to me; even by that time it's labelling had faded off and it was unreadable. It finally gave up the ghost one day and took all of my applications I was working on at the time with it. (curse my "I'll do it later" policy towards backups). It became exponentially more unreliable until one day it started being detected as a tablet. SanDisk Cruzer Micro (256MB), another Cruzer Micro(512MB), and two other Cruzers (8GB each) These have worked as well as is to be expected. No problems, acceptable speed. Kingston 8GB traveldrives, and a 2GB as well Also acceptable performance. And considering they only cost 10 bucks each it was QUITE a good value. The memorex drive works very well too. In fact, in a crappy one-off program I wrote to test their speeds it was the fastest even after several tests. it is "only" 512MB, though, which isn't enough for some of the files I want to haul around. Basically, just avoid getting "No name", or store brand flash drives. Also be careful because some smaller drives are misleadingly referred to as larger sizes- 256MB drives being sold as 8GB drives, for example- which show 8GB of space but only allow 256MB or somesuch to be stored. If it's a brand- Kingston, PNY, Sandisk, Memorex, etc then you can usually trust the label. If I was in your situation, I'd probably go for the cheapest "name brand" that I recognize/have experience with. Either way as the prices increase quality generally rises, until about HALFWAY when you are starting to pay for their MARKETING campaigns.Quote from: BC_Programmer on June 24, 2011, 11:26:08 AM Also be careful because some smaller drives are misleadingly referred to as larger sizes- 256MB drives being sold as 8GB drives, for example- which show 8GB of space but only allow 256MB or somesuch to be stored. These are deliberately manufactured fakes - I believe most come out of China. Avoid suspiciously cheap 64 GB drives in Ebay. I guess it's a matter of semantics but I intended to mean performance when I used the word "Quality." Thanks for the feedback.Quote from: shortride on June 24, 2011, 08:28:47 AM Is the PNY Mini Attache a quality flash drive?PNY is a quality name. Don't over-think this - it's just a flash drive. If you can get a good price on the PNY that's fine.That's what I thought until I got a SanDisk 16GB that is so slow on the writes as to be unsuable for anything but long term storage. Read speeds are acceptable. The packaging did say "suitable for large video files". Now I know what that means! My 2GB SanDisk is 3X the speed. |
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