USB Flash Drive reccomendations?

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n64man120

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I'm looking at getting a thumb drive for college and I've got not much of an idea where to start. I heard 512mb is the sweet spot, with 1GB usually being a price gouge so I suppose that's what I'll get. I don't really know how much I'll use it, so I don't know how big of one to get.

That being said, any reccomendations for the best ones out? I saw this Cruzer Micro and Titanium that looked pretty sweet, but then this Corsair Voyager which I saw in MaxPC kicked the crap out of it.

So I see this one is rather fast, I don't know how much I dig the look but it is durable. I can't seem to figure out what stacks up to it though, since alot of the roundups are outdated.

Any suggestions?
 
I got a nice candy red Apacer 256mb off newegg. Supposeably won an award in Japan for best design? :confused:

Anyways, from dropping a 80mb video into the explorer window for the drive to finish takes under 4 seconds.

Pretty fast to me, I only wish my mp3 players loaded that quickly.

You can test speeds and compare with a few brands using SiSoft Sandra I believe.
 
thats strange I have an Apacer as well
its a 2GB that I got in tradeout with a memory company for services
but I dont have any comparative data, fast enough for me though
 
In general, any USB 2.0 thumbdrive will be fine. I strongly recomend getting a flash based thumb drive (vs one that uses a micro hard drive) since the flash drives can take a greater beating and keep on workin. I have a 256MB USB 1.1 lexar currently and I have beat it to shyte and its still working... but Im upgrading to 1GB (seeing those for 65-75 USD occasionally) next. Be nice to carry the occasional ISO file on it.
 
n64man120 said:
I'm looking at getting a thumb drive for college and I've got not much of an idea where to start. I heard 512mb is the sweet spot, with 1GB usually being a price gouge so I suppose that's what I'll get. I don't really know how much I'll use it, so I don't know how big of one to get.

That being said, any reccomendations for the best ones out? I saw this Cruzer Micro and Titanium that looked pretty sweet, but then this Corsair Voyager which I saw in MaxPC kicked the crap out of it.

So I see this one is rather fast, I don't know how much I dig the look but it is durable. I can't seem to figure out what stacks up to it though, since alot of the roundups are outdated.

Any suggestions?
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Kingmax, there hella cheap at newegg and VERY reliable cause I use mine daily everyday.
 
Kingmax, Kingston, Apacer and Lexar are generally the best. 1GB is pretty cheap nowadays, depending on where you get it from. But as long as its USB 2.0 and over 256MB, you'll be right. :)
 
I have a Cruzer Micro 512. Very nice drive. The only thing is when you transfer a folder with a TON of files in it (a few hundred) it takes forever to write to the drive. That's a problem with all flash drives I would imagine, because the Apacer and Lexar ones we use at work do it to.
 
Even though you say any USB 2.0 drive is fast, I'm seeing things like this. The link I posted above. The Cruzer Micro is rated for High-Speed USB 2.0, yet this other one kicks its ass being about 2.5 times faster.

This leads me to believe not all USB 2.0 drives are created equal, by far, so I'm trying to find some other good one's but it's hard to find benches to know for sure.

Edit: So far the fastest ones I've come accross by far are the Corsair Voyager and the SanDisk Cruzer Titanium, I'm trying to find some others that match up since both of them have flaws in my mind.
 
I use the Transcend JetFlash 110 2GB model, and I have to say it is pretty speedy with big files.
 
Wow, it is very fast. Unfortunatly I'm not looking to pay as much as that 2GB model is, and all the models below yours run significantly slower. Yours does 18read/14write IIRC, the lesser sizes do 10/8
 
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