PNY Turbo 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive USD $29.99 + ~ $5.05 Shipping (AUD ~ $50 Delivered) @ Amazon

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Maverick-au on 11/01/2016 - 08:52 amazon.com (334 clicks)
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Reduced from USD $39.99 to USD $29.99 (note to JV - this is the bargain part)

200GB drive is also available for only USD $49.99 and has been this price for months - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0196J2IXW

Whilst the drive has been called a OZbargain favourite the rating of this drive is falling on Amazon due to a change in the memory and/or manufacturing sometime over 12 months ago. In March 2015 a review noted the 1 star reviews were 7%, January 2016 they are now 16% and nearly all these are failures. As the same reviewer said…(Replace the 7% with 16%)

"MORAL OF THE STORY: If 7% of the reviews are just dissatisfied buyers, I take that with a grain of salt. But if 7% of the reviewers state the product died, that deserves more serious thought. Think of it this way — if you interviewed a surgeon and he said "More than two-thirds of my patients find my services exceptional, and only 7% of them have died," what would you do?"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RER3TDJDGNPFL/ref=…

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  lyl on 11/01/2016 - 09:05

  +1

  Wow the camelx3 all time low price of $19.99 during during the black friday was a huge bargain missed.

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  overlord on 11/01/2016 - 09:18

  +2

  Bought this 2 years ago at $47USD shipped (~50.5AUD, AUD/USD was 0.93 at that time). Still going strong, good drive with decent speed. Hate the sliding cap though, it's sometimes hard to open and looks ugly.

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    Maverick-au on 11/01/2016 - 09:44

    +1

    Still going strong, good drive with decent speed. Hate the sliding cap though, it's sometimes hard to open and looks ugly.

    PNY apparently changed the memory recently and reliability on the new ones is not as good as the older models, there are 17% 1 star reviews and most of those are from the last 12 months with total drive failures.

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    sentinel on 11/01/2016 - 11:00

    Bought in April 2014, found it dead last weekend. Had used it only on about 10 occasions during that period, maybe that contributed to it.

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    RocketSwitch on 11/01/2016 - 11:16

    +1

    Same experience here. Fast and never failed, have two for two years now.

    The sliding cap is annoying.

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  Wallyt99 on 11/01/2016 - 09:35

  +1

  I bought a core 2 duo laptop on ebay. This flash drive is twice the size of the HDD. :)

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    [Deactivated] on 11/01/2016 - 09:59

    It's scary how little flash memory some of these laptops have, isn't it?

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    aim54x on 11/01/2016 - 10:12

    Wow…just how old was that Core2Duo laptop? I remember buying a laptop in 2005 with a whole 40GB HDD and a MSI U100 Wind netbook in 2008 with 80GB(?).

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    CH on 11/01/2016 - 10:35

    My first 3.5" hard drive was a whopping 200MB.

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      slackme on 11/01/2016 - 13:51

      U were lucky, it was 80MB for me and I paid $350 for it.

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  atlas on 11/01/2016 - 12:15

  Finally received my two white 256gb drives from the previous deal. Haven't opened yet. Will be testing them soon.

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    Vyviel on 11/01/2016 - 20:58

    Still waiting for my grey 256gb one it took them ages to actually ship and predict 20th of Jan.

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  ozymart on 11/01/2016 - 14:05

  http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/321874531245?ssPageName=STRK:MESE…

  Not really a deal. A local ebay seller is selling it cheaper.

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    Maverick-au on 11/01/2016 - 14:37

    Not really a deal. A local ebay seller is selling it cheaper.

    If you purchase two or more it's cheaper and depending on the exchange rate buying one can be cheaper from Amazon.

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      ozymart on 11/01/2016 - 14:55

      Personally I reckon warranty is very important on these
      USBs with relatively high fail rate.

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  JohnConnor on 11/01/2016 - 16:16

  -3

  Any word when USB 4.0 is due to arrive?
  This technology is obsolete.
  This old tech actually slows down the internet.