USB Flash Drive aka pen drive for $33.95(64MB)

[dadoftwins]

Most of them claimed 300~900K/s write, 500~1000k/s read.
For capacity of 128MB or less, the speed is not a factor to me. It is faster than all USB based memory card reader, and digi cam usb upload. Looks like the USB 2.0 version is coming out, but might still well too expensive now.

 

[ouzome]

Thanks for the link, it's time for me to get one of these too. I see many posts about using these at work. Why don't you just network your computers?! It'd probably be cheaper than everyone buying one of these. Just a thought.

 

[rgwalt]

Received the drive today and I've been spending some time testing it. It mounted up on my linux system no problem. However, using to transfer data between linux and windows appears to be problematic. I can go from windows to linux without much problem, but going back the other way doesn't work.

Anyway, I'm highly recommending one of these flash drives. In fact, I'm going to give these away as graduation presents in the future.

Ryan

 

[dadoftwins]

$33.95 64MB USB Drive

 

[SteveSimpson]

the newegg link in the original post is now out of date. a new link is:
newegg

 

[greg]

>>2nd - these seem really neat but what are people actually using these for?

I use these to xfer files to and from school. My files are in the 2-3meg size and I have 16mb that fits the bill wonderfully. NO more crank! clang gurgle sound of slow floppies. A godsend.

>>Is the transfer speed decent?
I get around 600-700k/s in real life, not a huge deal and beats the smack out of floppies.

 

[JimmyBoy]

Greg,
Your right about floppies. And they are so slowwwwww. I have a 16mg one. I find I've been using it to move small files between my two computers. I don't really need to network them. This is all I need.

Now I'm thinking about getting a second one. Then there can always be one plugged in. Whatever is dropped into one needs to go to the other computer. So I'll just swap them and I'll always have files moved easily without fooling with floppies or cds.