Sub $10… a sweet deal for a nicely spec'd drive. Plenty in stock. Good luck :)
Also available @ AusPost (thanks CVonV)
SanDisk Ultra 16GB USB3 Flash Drive $9.99 @ Officeworks & AusPost
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It's the tight insertion that gets him hot :-)
Everyone loves the insertion
hard drives > floppy drives > thumb drives
Hard Drive —> Insert Device —> Ink Jet —> Eject Device —> Floppy Drive
9 months later you have a print out (if you're using a dot matrix).
I got Toshiba stick for $11. Dan.
I got Toshiba stick for $11. Dan.
Nice to meet you Dan.
Great deal. Thank you very much.
same price in post office too..
Thanks for this. I'll add it to the post :)
Bought this from OW last week for around $18. I was in a hurry. I suppose the OzBargain thing to do is to buy 3 and put them in the draw.
That's a shame. Never buy USB drives from brick and mortar stores. Ebay is the best place, because the prices are so low.
Depending on the seller though you could get a fake. If you go Ebay then go a registered business that is known.
Agreed. I don't like to buy SD cards or Flash Drives off ebay or any online store I haven't heard good things about. Any way it was 7pm in my regional city and I needed a flash drive to create a bootable Win 7 installer. It worked fine for the job.
Just a word of warning, the write speed on these is max 10MB/sec I have a 64Gb one and it takes forever to transfer a lot of data to it. It does read at ~USB3 speeds however.
I have a whole bunch of flash drives from different years. I recently did some benchmarking and found really disapointing write speeds with the lot of them. The fastest of them can barely hit 9MB/s writes. The slowest clocking in at 1.6MB/s.
Now, these USB drives are either freebies or dirt cheap when I bought them. If I wanted better performance - speeds - what should I look for? I mean, they're all pretty much labeled the same! In recent years, USB3.0 support is the latest thing they put on, but you still get slow writes. I mean, is there a way of telling if a particular make/model of USB drive is going to be fast without having to research it's benchmarks online prior to buying it?
Look at Sandisk extreme USB 3 range. The 64gb model can reach 200MB/s
Well you can't go wrong with Sandisk Extreme or Pro, Corsair GT/R and Patriot Supersonic Magnum. Buy one of those and you won't be disappointed.
Corsair GT/R
speed wise no.. reliability wise.. then yes :(
"If I wanted better performance - speeds - what should I look for?"
Look for SLC flash drives. The vast majority of flash drives are either MLC or TLC with horrible write speed and abysmal write endurance/reliability. I keep my data on MX-ES drives http://www.mx-technology.com/en/product/flash2.php?sid=38 which indeed write at 200MB/s.
Please compare write cycle endurance:
SLC - 100000
MLC - 10000
TLC - 3000
But that goes for SSD NAND flash. I hear that USB flash drives are made with B-grade TLC with as low as 200 write-cycle endurance. No wonder your data tends to disappear from this type of storage.The first Kogan 32GB flash drive (in aluminium case) was a SLC with 100MB/s write speed, but this model is no longer available.
Any of these should be fine - http://search.pccasegear.com/search#w=usb3%20flash
Although the Apacer is a bit slow - http://usbspeed.nirsoft.net/?pdesc=USB3.0+FLASH+DRIVE+USB+De…
You get what you pay for generally here.
Poor write speeds as said by /u/cevad. Benchmarks:
http://usb.userbenchmark.com/SanDisk-Ultra-USB-30-16GB/Ratin…
Might as well buy this one in that case https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/196546. Twice the capacity for the same price.
This may be the cheapest price, but just know you can pay $1.50 extra and get it delivered to your door from a number of eBay sellers. Save petrol/transport costs. :D
http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_odkw=SanDisk+Ultra+16GB&_…
It may be more convenient now, but I wonder what their after-sales service is like?
They're USB storage devices. It's highly unlikely you'll need to return it or repair it.
Thx for the eBay link. Fred delivery makes it all too easy. Cheers
How much does it cost with Fred delivery?
actually sold out.
I just bought one of these from Woolangabba Officeworks
http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/sandisk-cru…
$14.52 for 32GB Sandisk Cruzer U
USB 2.0 :(
Didn't see that when I bought it. Its unopened, might take it back.
For an extra $1.95, The Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 16GB provides better Read and Write speeds.
Sandisk Ultra Fit
Read 137 mb/s Write 83.4 mb/sSandisk Ultra
Read 65.9 mb/s Write 8.45 mb/sBenchmark
http://usb.userbenchmark.com/http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_odkw=sandisk+extreme+usb+…
$1.71 extra after cashrewards :)
Sandisk must have improved Ultra Fit recently, mine writes only 28MB/s.
interesting that 100 upvotes have been given for this poor performing USB drive, and as you say for a tiny little bit extra you get a much better drive!
Not the fastest USB3.0 in market. Pay few bucks more and get better USB.
Hey, the one at the top is the one I carry around in my pocket, I feel validated as a smart consumer and as a human.
You love storage devices. Don't you TA.