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USB Thumbdrives
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: San Jose, CA
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Hey, I have a few questions regarding thumb drives.
1) Do they all rely on flash, or are there any based around the 0.85" microdrives? I through I found one company claiming to make them ( http://www.trek2000.com.sg/press17.htm), but it is just a press release from back in March. Do these exist anywhere yet (I couldn't find, and I looked for awhile).
2) Is speed an issue? I found one claiming to be 17MB/s read and 14MB/s write. I know that isn't as fast as a hard drive, but that sounds like pretty good speeds. Is that about what most thumbdrives are, or is this one special ( http://www.trekstorusa.com/thumbdrive_2smart.htm)?
3) Also, does anyone have any recommendations on drives? I need one in the 512 - 2GB range.
Thanks for any help guys.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Anything below about 2GB is going to be flash-based, while some 2-4GB drives will be flash as well. The larger drives are going to be hard-drive based because of the cost issue-it's less expensive at about the 4GB point to use a tiny hard drive than all that flash memory, but they'll still be AWFULLY expensive.
Speed is slower than a hard drive but faster than many optical drives, and WAY faster than the floppies we all grew to hate. It's a good compromise.
I've used PNY's USB flash drives for some time and they're rugged and reliable. I recently got a 1GB device and it's been wonderful. I don't know if PNY markets anything larger than 1GB yet.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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I have a 2GB flash-based drive and love it.
Before that had a 1GB sandisk flash drive. Loved it. Still use it.
Before that had a 512MB sandisk and also a good workhorse.
They are excellent purchases.
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Minnesota
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I'm now in the market for a new flash drive. I have a 128 MB Crucial Gizmo! drive which has worked well.
What is the smallest drive out there today?
How about one that has the "Apple" quality, look, and feel?
I need one now that is at least 1 GB.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Originally Posted by alligator
I'm now in the market for a new flash drive. I have a 128 MB Crucial Gizmo! drive which has worked well.
What is the smallest drive out there today?
How about one that has the "Apple" quality, look, and feel?
I need one now that is at least 1 GB.
I'd go for this 64gb model, yes I said 64 gigabytes.
Ok, now in the sub $5000 range, lol, I really like the sandisk cruzer titanium 1gb. Its got fast read/write speeds and it looks pretty cool, and according to cnet you can run over it with a car, and that was the deal breaker for me!
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