USB Flash Drive Call-Out Thread

[BoomerD]

I have a handful of 1 Gb drives. Most were free...one I actually bought...

 

[Rifter]

I own a 4GB Sony drive, 8GB OCZ Rally2, a 8GB Corsair Flash Voyager, and a 16GB A-Data drive.

Have not had any issues with any of them. The OCZ has seen the most use, used it as OS drive for my server for a few months waiting for HDD RMA.

 

[Jeff7]

Corsair Voyager, 4GB.
It's somewhere around 3-5 years old, best guess.

 

[chin311]

I use Patriot flash drives almost exclusively, I plug em into at least 3 computers a day and they have never failed on me. I'm on a 16gb one now.

I've had a Sandisk fail on me in the past, but other then that no problems at all with Lexar or Patriot.

 

[MotF Bane]

I have a few SanDisk Cruzer Titanium 1GB models, all four to five years old, and PNY Attache ranging from 1GB to 16GB. Around twenty in all, and I've yet to have any data corruption/failure. Physically, the old Attache models sucked, but the new ones are much more solid.

 

[dank69]

I have a handful of 1 Gb drives. Most were free...one I actually bought...

This. Have about 40 of them ranging from 1-8GB, all free from trade shows. They give them out like candy.

 

[zerogear]

I have a LaCie cooKey 16GB

And a IronKey 4GB

 

[Wyndru]

I have a 16 and 32 kingston.

I want this, 256gb would be nice to store images on.
http://www.kingston.com/ukroot/flash/dt300.asp

I guess it was discontinued though.

 

[Nebor]

I'm sure those are faster than the average USB 2 ones but I don't think most of them will be blazingly fast as they probably haven't changed the flash RAM or tweaked them.

Actually they're crazy fast. Look at the benchmarks. Not 500 times faster per USB spec, but up to 100 times faster.

 

[BabaBooey]

I love my lexar 64GB flip stick....:wub:

 

[Old Hippie]

I probably have 15 different drives in all sizes (.5GB-15GB) from many different manfgs.

AFAIK the actual memory chips are all about the same but some fancy Corsair models used to use dual memory RAM for faster speeds.

I've never had a problem with any but if I were going to pick a brand it'd be Corsair.

 

[Imp]

4Gb Kingston x2. Only ones that I can find on sale for $10 or less regularly.

 

[911paramedic]

This one looks pretty cool and has some great reviews, I was looking to upgrade (size) my 4GB. I'd like one that I'm not always looking for, but I'd be a little worried about breaking this one.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820139596

 

[Red Dawn]

3 8 gb sticks, a couple of 4 gb sticks and a handful of 1 gb or less. I use them mostly for OS and app installs.

 

[Tristicus]

I've got a 16gb PNY, 8gb Cruzer, 8gb Kingston, 2gb Something

 

[911paramedic]

LOL, this is why I love reviews at the egg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...G-_-20-171-522

:thumbsup:

(Looks like you have to click the Feedback tab yourself.)

 

[ch33zw1z]

I have a bunch of 4GB's, a couple 8's. I mostly use the 8's...mostly.

 

[HAL9000]

 

[Modelworks]

I use the USB adapters for SD cards. That way the cards I buy can be used as a drive or in the camera or other devices.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820137012

 

[ViviTheMage]

I used to only use 1-4gb usb2 ... now I love my 32gb usb3, so fast!

 

[Riverhound777]

I have a 16GB HP drive that I keep on my keychain for general IT use. Wanted something very compact so I don't notice it in my pocket.

http://www.amazon.com/HP-v115w-Flash...3508989&sr=8-3

 

[Arkaign]

Hah, this topic is well timed for me. Personally I have nothing but a random assortment of 1GB-8GB sticks, but yesterday I was at Tom Thumb in Frisco, TX, and noted something bizarre in the clearance section. Apparently they stocked up on 16MB and 32MB flash drives waaaaaaaay back in the day. Yes, MB, not GB! They were on clearance for the amazing low prices of $19.99 and $39.98!! WHAT A DEAL!!! I was tempted to say something to someone, but figured I'd just get a blank stare. I wonder if anyone has actually bought one not realizing that they're about a thousand times smaller than they're expecting

 

[ElFenix]

32 gb kingston g2 from mid 2009. cost about $60. i had it attached to my key ring but the little plastic loop thing broke from the drive. i might get one of those lacie key drives shown above.

 

[amdhunter]

I have a couple of 1GB + a lot of 4GB sticks lying around.
I usually use the 4GB sticks to make Windows 7 installs.

The one 8GB stick I have was bought so I could make an OS X Lion installer.

 

[Jeff7]

Hah, this topic is well timed for me. Personally I have nothing but a random assortment of 1GB-8GB sticks, but yesterday I was at Tom Thumb in Frisco, TX, and noted something bizarre in the clearance section. Apparently they stocked up on 16MB and 32MB flash drives waaaaaaaay back in the day. Yes, MB, not GB! They were on clearance for the amazing low prices of $19.99 and $39.98!! WHAT A DEAL!!! I was tempted to say something to someone, but figured I'd just get a blank stare. I wonder if anyone has actually bought one not realizing that they're about a thousand times smaller than they're expecting

Well hey, that's like, 4 or 5 songs right there! Take that and shove it in your 8-track player! (Which apparently could still store up to 46 minutes of content, split into 4 pieces.)


32MB...wow. That's not even worth having if it was free.