Flash (usb 2.0) drive speed?

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Ashton

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I'm looking for a USB drive for my laptop. I've seen people on one forum claiming that USB drives provide faster data access rates than class 6 SDHC cards - meaning 20mbps+

however when I look on ebay, they're trumpeting 9 and 10mbps!

What speed is normal for a larger-capacity USB 2.0 flash drive?
 
Real world, probably around 30 to 34 megabytes a second...give or take some.


I have a 8 gig thumbdrive I got from Microcenter for $25 and its good for about 30 to 31 megs a sec.
 
Sandisk Cruzer Micros do a pretty good job, I have 3. Good price too, look for a good sale, I picked up 4GBs last week for 22 each from Circuit City
 
My OCZ Rally2 has consistent ~32MB/s reads and ~20-22MB/s writes (with large-ish files; obviously read and write speeds tank with small ones). You just have to look for a decent drive.
 
sounds suspicious to me when all the 16 and 32gb drives had 9-11mbps write-speeds... sounds like they're hacked... (not that a high-r/w speed means it's not but this looks like another trick to pick out hacked ones)

and I need at least an 8gb, preferably 16 or 32 because this is going to be implanted and hard-wired into an eeepc as the main storage disk. I may look into that $25 8gb one above...
 
Whatever you do, avoid buying one from eBay unless you are 100% sure that you are buying from reputable dealer. There are tons of knockoffs on there with bullshit faked capacity and slow r/w speeds.

They especially love to make bootleg Sandisk Cruzer's.

I would be real hesitant to buy from eBay for one of these.
 
Mathemabeat said:
Whatever you do, avoid buying one from eBay unless you are 100% sure that you are buying from reputable dealer. There are tons of knockoffs on there with bullshit faked capacity and slow r/w speeds.

They especially love to make bootleg Sandisk Cruzer's.

I would be real hesitant to buy from eBay for one of these.
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Flash drives are so cheap now...unless your looking for a 32GB its probable more cost effective to just go to office max and get it...plus you dont wait for it to show up in the mail.
 
nitrobass24 said:
Flash drives are so cheap now...unless your looking for a 32GB its probable more cost effective to just go to office max and get it...plus you dont wait for it to show up in the mail.
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If you discount the possibilty of getting scammed, it's dirt-cheep on ebay, but with the scammers do abundant now, I'm holding off most purchases unless I have a LOT of people say "oh I bought from him, he's legit"

I've decided to buy the $70 drive above, I need a large drive since this puppy only has 4gb avalible otherwise.
 
Ashton said:
If you discount the possibilty of getting scammed, it's dirt-cheep on ebay, but with the scammers do abundant now, I'm holding off most purchases unless I have a LOT of people say "oh I bought from him, he's legit"

I've decided to buy the $70 drive above, I need a large drive since this puppy only has 4gb avalible otherwise.
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Be aware that large-capacity flash drives are inherently slower due to their use of MLC memory instead of the faster SLC that smaller drives use.
 
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