Comments on: Why you should stick to expensive USB flash drives

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By: Rarst

Rarst — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:27:41 +0000

@Dennis Edell

3.5″ are bulky and require external power. I don’t like to mess with that. I have IDE/SATA to USB adapter in case I need to transfer something large on 3.5″ drive but I won’t use it daily.

Thanks for visiting and comment. :)

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:31:31 +0000

My 640gb external should last me a few days lol.

I know what you mean though. I don’t have a J.O.B. and I would only use it with computers I knew could handle it.

BTW, only $150 :)

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:45:18 +0000

@Nihar

I have external hard drive as well. But it’s pretty expensive toy and I don’t like idea using it with all those PCs at work (and elsewhere) that usually have cheap motherboards with questionable power and USB quality.

I can buy one or two flash drives each year when they die because of that but buying hard drives that often would suck. :)

By: Nihar

Nihar — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:36:45 +0000

Rarst, i have never used flash drive. Any type of data transfer i want. i take hard drive :)

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:12:40 +0000

@Delirium

Yep, Kingston is well known brand as well. Unfortunately they have only one high-speed model (as far as I know) – DataTraveler HyperX. It is extremely rare and hard to buy where I live so I wasn’t able to check it out.

Thanks for sharing your experience. :)

By: Delirium

Delirium — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:01:16 +0000

I have 2 Kingston’s DataTraveler and I’m very happy with it. Decent read and write speeds and very reliable storage. I find it very resistant to falls or even water (I’ve already forgot one in my pocket and it survived the washing machine and the dryer) and it’s doing pretty well with my intense usage.
There are a lot more people I know uses DataTravelers and they survive pretty nicely. The only DT I know that died was one plugged to a short-circuited motherboard.

About the Flash cards, I rely on Kingston ones too, and the quality is just as great as the USB flash drives (I’ve never put one of those into the washing machine, though).

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:01:28 +0000

@Lyndi

Ducati is one I bought recently. Awesome electronics inside but bit bulky. People mistake it for lighter.

Same rules indeed apply to flash cards, only there is no casing issue for them.

By: Lyndi

Lyndi — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:17:08 +0000

I love the ‘Ducati’ one. I very seldom use a flash disk but I have to agree, you only get what you pay for. The same thing is true about the flash disks (cf disks) used in cameras. Here I had to learn the hard way. Paying a little more is far better than losing tons of photos.