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What is the cheapest/best (best price/performance) 8gb flash drive i can get?

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ManBearPig

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any recommendations? i posted this a while ago but its been some time and im pretty sure i want readyboost plus 8gb.

unless readyboost isnt useful.
 
Originally posted by: Kazaam
any recommendations? i posted this a while ago but its been some time and im pretty sure i want readyboost plus 8gb.

unless readyboost isnt useful.
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If you have 2GB or more than no it's not useful. If your system is running slowly, the same amount of money you would spend on an 8GB flash drive could get 2GB of DDR2 RAM and would be must faster than an external USB drive and make everything faster. If you just need the flash drive then try one of these.

Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB $9.99 AR

Patriot Xporter XT 8GB $18.99
 
Watch the hot deals forum - three weeks ago I picked up an OCZ Diesel 16GB drive (fastest USB drive I've ever used) for $16.50 after a $10MIR (which OCZ has already notified me is being processed).
 
Originally posted by: Denithor
Watch the hot deals forum - three weeks ago I picked up an OCZ Diesel 16GB drive (fastest USB drive I've ever used) for $16.50 after a $10MIR (which OCZ has already notified me is being processed).
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jease, thats cheap. thanks for the info guys
 
Truth be told, most of the thumb drives in the low price category will perform near to or exactly the same, cut the costs where you can pretty much. Also as said before, Readyboost is pretty useless unless your system is ridiculously ram starved since data to and from the usb drive to the cpu = much slower than typical internal ram to cpu speeds.
 
Avoid the PNY 8GB w/readyboost, I have one, and in XP, I cannot copy more than about 2GB worth of files FROM the drive to a system HD, before the controller chip hangs and the USB device gets disconnect. Not to mention, in Windows7, it claims that the drive isn't fast enough for ReadyBoost, even though it is advertised for that.
 
Anyone have any recommendations for fast SD cards ~16GB?
I have an A data one advertised for Eepc's and l only get 30x with it.
 
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