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Which brand of thumb drive - PNY or Sandisk

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wpshooter

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Want to get me a bit higher capacity thumb drive, so I can install a bootable version of Ubuntu/Linux on it and Walmart has some 16gb PNY brand and also SANDISK CRUZER brand for about $10.

Which of the 2 is likely to be the better drive ?

Thanks.
 
I only said probably. I have no factual evidence to back that up. The fact Sandisk has their own fab suggests they are more than just somebody who buys NAND, a controller, a housing and puts their name on it.

I spent £50 on a Patriot Supersonic USB3 32GB stick and I still had to RMA the first one..
 
I'm looking over Walmart's site and I see the SanDisk that the specs are here:

http://sandisk.com/products/usb/drives/cruzer/ - 10 bucks at walmart for the 4 GB version the OP asked about.

http://www3.pny.com/16GB-Mini-Attach-USB-20-Flash-Drive-P2823C50.aspx

The PNY is a 16GB which wins over The SD just by the fact it's 4 times larger.

For 10 bucks I'd definitely jump on the PNY. SanDisk does a 16 GB version for 15.88

http://www.walmart.com/ip/SanDisk-Cr...Drive/20593524

which ain't half bad either.

Both are USB 2.0
 
2 year warranty for the Sandisk, 1 year for the PNY. I'll lean towards the PNY for the larger capacity.
 
If you want a durable user, Sandisk. IME, PNY's mechanical design and build quality tends to be lacking, in comparison.

If you want to run an OS on it, consider getting some stick with decent speed specs, which you probably can't buy at Walmart.
 
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SanDisk is SLOW. Consider that carefully, for using as an OS drive.

Office Depot has some EMTEC drives on sale through today, they have 32GB for $14.99. Available on their web site too.

(I just finished putting Win8 Release Preview on one, as a bootable live OS.)

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I consider SanDisk to be quality. But they use TLC, and are known to be slow. (4MB/sec write speeds, 20MB/sec reads.)

The EMTEC 32GB has 7-8MB/sec writes, and 15+MB/sec reads.
 
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Id go with sandisk they are a good maker of thumb drives.

read the specs on it and its speed. Its going to be very very slow if your using to boot up. Your lucky if you get 15 to 20mbps on that stick maybe worse. Mine is 23Mbps Rally 2GB ,,,

Be warned it will be slow slow slow! ok your warned LOL!

gl
 
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