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Best 4GB USB drive?

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Ichigo

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Obviously.

Still, what do you guys use and what do you think is the best price/performance, easiest to put on a keychain, prettiest of them all?
 
Last month I bought PNY mini Attache 2GB 2.0 Flash drive for 20.00 but I haven't open it yet I don't know about performance yet I hope it is good performace for a good price.
 
corsair survivor looks pretty good!

i chose the OCZ Rally2 over the voyager bc the voyager seemed too bulky. the OCZ was just so much sleeker
 
Yeah, I agree on the design of the OCZ Rally vs. the Corsair Voyager (bulky and just plain fugly), but the read/write speeds of those red Voyager GTs is pretty tempting. Some of OCZ's newer stuff boasts similar speeds but those designs are pretty much just as fugly as the Voyager, and they're too new to be readily available.
 
I bought the OCZ Rally 2 1GB flash drive a year ago, and had to RMA it due to data corruption and finally failure of the drive to be detected even in device manager. The RMA process was painless, and at the time the performance was still excellent relative to the competition. The replacement drive functioned without problems until I lost it.

Attributing the initial 1GB Rally's problems to simple misfortune, I purchased the 2GB version six months ago. This drive began to corrupt data as well, resulting in random unaccessible files, garbled data, and changes in file titles to nonsensical symbols. I reformatted the drive, and gave it away (with appropriate forewarning about its past data corruption issues).

I recently purchased the Buffalo Ultra High-speed 4GB flash drive based upon Xbitlab's roundup (Link). I can confirm that their file write/read benchmarks are spot-on, and the drive thus far has functioned flawlessly with respect to data integrity. It is every bit as sleek as the Rally and noticeably faster to boot, although you will have to supply your own lanyard. So far, I am satisfied with the Buffalo.

I must say that I never experienced data corruption with flash drives prior to the Rallys. I am not sure if this is a common issue, but it certainly taught me to never rely on any single medium for data storage.

 
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