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4gb USB flash drive for $99.99 AR

Originally posted by: Devistater
Hot dang a 4 gig drive is only $100? I thought I had a good deal getting my 1 gig a year or so ago for $60!

http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/flash_memory.html
Looks like theres a way to create a password protected partition on the drive with some included utility software.
10 year warranty
19 megabyte/s reads
9 megabyte/s writes

Not too shabby.
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And I thought I got a good deal when I bought 16MB of RAM for under $600 (in 1994) 🙂

Moore's law does not only pertain to technology, but also to economics...
 
Originally posted by: Devistater
Hot dang a 4 gig drive is only $100? I thought I had a good deal getting my 1 gig a year or so ago for $60!
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My exact thoughts when I saw this
 
Just thought I'd add this. It appears the Corsair's are experiencing write/protect errors (not all, of course, but some problems have been posted on their forum). Search "Prolific" and make your own judgment.

Corsair forum

I found out about this isolated (?) problem during research. And, yes, I know I'll get
a few repudiations. But it is a known problem of which Corsair is accutely aware. FWIW
 
Good review and comparison of a number of flash drives and thier performance:
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2549

Look at the 64 meg tests, they are going to be the best gauge of sustained throughput performance.
The corsair is in the middle of the pack in terms of read performance (18.6 megs compared to 5.5 megs at low end and 30.6 megs at high end).
Unfortunately the 4 gig drive here has 9 meg/s instead of the 13 meg/s on the drive that was tested in that review (which puts it in middle of pack for write performance). So basically the specs that corsair quotes are pretty accurate.

Originally posted by: newswatcher
Just thought I'd add this. It appears the Corsair's are experiencing write/protect errors (not all, of course, but some problems have been posted on their forum). Search "Prolific" and make your own judgment.

Corsair forum

I found out about this isolated (?) problem during research. And, yes, I know I'll get
a few repudiations. But it is a known problem of which Corsair is accutely aware. FWIW
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Sounds like it would be worth it to make a CRC checksum file of 4 gigs worth of stuff (like an .sfv) copy the 4 gigs worth, run the checksum on the drive (or copy it back to hdd in another location, then run it) to make sure it could read/write every location.
Originally posted by: Yo2
And I thought I got a good deal when I bought 16MB of RAM for under $600 (in 1994) 🙂

Moore's law does not only pertain to technology, but also to economics...
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No, it does not. Moore's law has an exact timeframe. 18 months (he originally said 24 months I think). And it is about the processor power increase (or rather interpreted to be # of transistors), not the price.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moores_law
You probably meant to reinterpret it to mean prices drop or some such, but even this doesn't hold in economics in general, nor in computer parts in specific
A couple quick examples in economics that dont follow this: housing and interest rates.

For computers, there's RAM. RAM has very volitile pricing and there's been cases where RAM prices have DOUBLED in a year, instead of going down.
Or how about LCD screens? The cheapest you can get a LCD screen of any size is around $150 or so even with sales. Its been that way for a year or so. Same with CRT monitors, you can get a decent 19" CRT monitor for $200 and its been that way for a while.

However, your general point about prices falling in computer stuff tends to be correct. My statement was expressing my surprise at how much its fallen in such a short time (i.e. the rate of recent change). I thought the $20 AR for 1 gig drive at BB on black friday was a fluke, but to see a price nearly the same per gig for a 4 gig drive right now is a bit surprising to me. I thought it would take much longer, flash has dropped from $50-$60 a gig now down to $20-$25 a gig in what, a year or a bit longer?

And of course I know that electronics were more expensive previously. We paid $600 for a 20 MEGABYTE hdd long before your 1994 purchase.
 
I have the 2GB version and I love it to death... only problem is that the cap is easy to lose. But corsair is very nice about sending out replacements.
 
Unfortunately the 4 gig drive here has 9 meg/s instead of the 13 meg/s on the drive that was tested in that review (which puts it in middle of pack for write performance).
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Of course...performance doesn't matter if you want to steal 4GB of company data and stick it on your keychain 🙁

It's getting easier and cheaper all the time...Admins beware!

 
I would be buying this for the capacity and not the speed. As long as it wasn't a total dog speed-wise, I could care less if it transfered data at 0.9c 🙂
 
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