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Flash Drives

Be aware that these new large chips can take a lot of power in write or erase modes, some readers won't even work from a base port unless you have no other USB items plugged in that take much power at all - some of the high capacity thumb drives even state that you need a self-powered Hub to run them that can supply significantly more power to the ports than the 500mA that a normal internal port can supply.

.bh.
 
Originally posted by: Calculator83
Where is this Flash Voyager GT that everyone raves about. How come i can't find it anywhere
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I guess you didn't look very hard . . . 🙂

GT

 
Originally posted by: Calculator83
Originally posted by: corkyg
Originally posted by: Calculator83
Where is this Flash Voyager GT that everyone raves about. How come i can't find it anywhere
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I guess you didn't look very hard . . . 🙂

GT
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Out of stock everywhere
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Looks like the GT series has been discontinued/EOL'ed. Plenty of regular Flash Voyager's are still available though.
 
The bigger the drive, the more power needed. There is an article on that in the new PC World.

Also, it is not adviseable to defrag flash drives or SSDs.
 
I wrote to Kingston and SanDisk and asked about power requirements for the larger thumb drives and they never replied... I think the product page on the large SanDisk cruzers mentioned the power need but not in specifics.

.bh.
 
Originally posted by: mpilchfamily
They are all about the same. The speed difference between them is marginal at best.
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you're being sarcastic right? my Sandisk was about 3x as fast as the no name one I had. And my friends OCZ blows my Sandisk out the water. I'm not talking a few seconds. xfering 2 gigs of files his will be done in half the time. If you do a lot of smaller files it can get even wider with some brands. a 5 vs 1.5 min difference isn't something I would consider marginal.

 
I'm looking for one too to use with eboostr in my old lappy with winXP. I'll probably go with the ocz rally 2 4gb.
 
Originally posted by: biostud
I'm looking for one too to use with eboostr in my old lappy with winXP. I'll probably go with the ocz rally 2 4gb.
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yea,, that turbo looks amazing,, but idk bout 90 dollars amazing
 
if you decide to buy ocz make sure it has "turbo" in the name. ocz rally 2 is around 10mib/s slower than the turbo version. patriot xporter xt is good too but it has 2 or more versions so you might end up with a dud
 
Originally posted by: semo
if you decide to buy ocz make sure it has "turbo" in the name. ocz rally 2 is around 10mib/s slower than the turbo version. patriot xporter xt is good too but it has 2 or more versions so you might end up with a dud
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Thx for req,, i just went with the regular ocz rally 2, cuz of the price 8gig 12 dollars after rebate free shipping.

I couldn't justify 90 dollars for a flash drive, which is something I've experienced numerous times to break at random.
 
Originally posted by: TheKub
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Here's a hot deal - CORSAIR Flash Voyager 16GB Flash Drive $20 after MIR

Got mine yesterday. Note the rebate expires on 10/31
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Yep, have had mine for a few days. Seems quick enough for my needs, though I've never used any "turbo" fast drives.
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the read speed is close to the top, while the write speed is slow, but with that price it seems just what I need for my task.
 
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