Marked down from $20.
Saw this down at my local Woolworths store in Scoresby VIC - 3 remaining. Not sure about stock at other stores.
Note: For those going to Scoresby, they are located on the end of the isle near the refrigerated juice.
3 Pack of Lexar JumpDrive V20 8GB USB 2.0 - $5 at Woolworths
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I'll buy one for $2 if someone wants to split.
This has to be one of the tightest comments I've ever seen on here….
He should have offered $1.65, not tight enough…
Anyone wanna split into thirds?
That's the OzBargain spirit right there!
Still full price at Westfield Chermside (Brisbane)
Did you try scanning it?
There wasn't any discounted singage when I was there this morning. Might try tomorrow
I was about to post this too!! Also spotted at forest hill, Vic. I didn't buy it though…
These have been in the half price back to school sale
I paid $10 for a 3 pack last week.
Even better value if they have now dropped to $5No sticker but scanned for $5 in Dandenong Plaza VIC
My local has a slightly different pack with a big NEW sign, so I guess a clearance item at this price.
Seriously do OZbuyers really need more USB sticks and batteries?
I can safely say i have enough usbs to last a lifetime from all these deals! Definitely restraining myself on this one!
Yes, I only have 1 @ 16gb used in car stereo and one @ 64gb used for other stuff.
I need several 8's for storing and trying linux iso's
Thanks OP. 9 left at Glen Waverley.
in this day and age… and on OZB where people know better…a USB 2.0 drive…!! well.. +1 for the effort but really!
It works out at $1.67 each for a USB drive. A tiny fraction of the possible uses where USB 3.0 would not make one tiny bit of difference:
- moving a few documents around at home or the office
- passing a totally legitimate media file to a friend (and not necessarily expecting to get the USB drive back)
- for when the kids lose their current flash drive at school
- for anyone whose computer doesn't support USB 3.0
- or for the uni students about to start, carrying presentations, passing around group assignments or scanning in parts of the books you were too cheap to buy and too cheap to photocopy.
Just because it doesn't suit your use case doesn't mean it doesn't suit other people's.
Definitely agree, though I personally also prefer to buy more expensive USBs and just nag for them back when someone borrows them. I've only once actually needed to ask for one back, it seems as if people (or at least my friends) are quite careful with USB 3.0 (or more expensive looking) USBs than they were back when I used cheap USBs.
Still, planning on buying a pack of these ones tomorrow - for $5 you can't really go wrong.
Cheap, amazing and unnecessary
Good luck finding these…
Checked the Woolworths at Belmont Forum Perth, it's still listed at $24 and price check is $24.
Woolworth St George tce has a bunch of them at $5.
Thanks, I picked the up last 2 packs from there!!
Thanks toadfish…Got one.
Wow. very good price. Would come in handy when trying out different OS build (win/Mac/Linux)…I am going to check out woolie tomorrow
I'd personally opt for a ~$30 SanDisk extreme for this. The extra bandwidth (mine hits around 250MB/s) allows you to actually get a feel of different operating systems without constantly waiting in IO. These cheaper drives would do the job, though at much lower (~20MB/s) speeds.
So do you think that you can boot an os from these cheap os. Cheap sandisk ones can't be bootable.
You can in term boot an OS from any, just boot times will be much, much slower and overall user experience will take a hit due to IO times. When you consider little things like opening Skype pull up as much as 50-100MB+ off your drive, ~5-10MB/s becomes extemely painful. Then when you consider boot times where you need to pull up hundreds of megs…
Btw, when I say ~$30 SanDisk I don't mean it as retail $30, but meaning picking up a SanDisk extreme or something really cheaply. The 32GB model is usually around $40 though dips down to 30ish at times. Otherwise the 16GB is around 25-30. The write speeds are good (50/100/190MB/s for 16/32/64GB) and read speeds are insane, up to around 250MB/s - they basically keep up with slower HDDs.
Edit: others are stating these USBs are only around 4MB/s, you're definitely better off spending an extra $25-30 on a better USB, or at least getting one of the SanDisk ones the post office has(had?) on special, they're around $10-15 and are 85MB/s read (rated at 100).
Edit2: forgot to mention, I personally use a SanDisk extreme 32GB as a portable boot drive. It has a full copy of windows 8.1 on it and runs perfectly. Loads to the desktop in around 15-20 seconds and once loaded everything works fine, actually feels slightly more responsive than a HDD (probably due to the solid factor).
http://imgur.com/bg33dfF
http://imgur.com/tgtbvPJMore deals at the West Ryde store. There's a whole lot more items off at more than half price such as 10 pack Bic pens, frozen stationary, permanent markers, fineliners and so on.
I got the 16gb version. Transfer speed is at roughly 4 megabytes per second since it's usb 2.0. It does what it does and I'm satisfied with my purchase at that price.
4MB/s? Ouch.
Yes, I got the same result. Seems slower than other usb 2.0 sticks I have.
For anyone in the Geelong area, I just checked Woolworths in Corio and they have more than a dozen left. There's no ticket for the special but they scan at $5.
And more flash drives….
had out my resume on usb like a boss
Lexar jumpdrive 16gb for $2.50 each, around 20 left at wyndham vale wollies
I bought a couple at the Endeavour Hills (Vic) store this morning. There appeared to be more left. They were in the normal computer bits section and labelled as $24 from memory. They scanned as $5 though.
something useful to do with all this usb drives other than land fill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dougISKs2vQRAID with USB drives. :)
scan at $5 in Marrickville metro (NSW) store
None that I could see at Amherst Village WA.
Got the last one at Carousel Cannington WA (unless they also had it on the end of one of the aisles), there was another 3 pack there (a Lexar S50) 2.0 model but they weren't on special. Shame as they looked better imo with a cover to protect the connector
There was no special sticker either ftr but scanned at $5
Spend $5 to lose my data? Not a deal, I have had extreme bad luck with lexar products, nearly 80% failure with in the first month.
Was at Melville (WA) and Belmont (WA)..both do not have these Lexar USB drives…I asked the staff to scan the code and on their scanner it says something about deleted stock…I don't know if St. Georges Terrace Woolie still have any stocks given that this is posted on Ozbargain, I think my chances is pretty low…and I am not about to drive all the way there to check this out…
Am I correct to say that these USB sticks have plastic connectors? IF so avoid as such connectors are rubbish not durable.
How do you mean plastic connectors? Conductive plastics are not widespread. At least the USB plug and the electronic circuitry have to be metal. But most USB stick bodies are made of plastic now, only a small minority have metal bodies.
I wonder if it can be made as a bootable drives for windows 10 and Mac OSX.
I am surprised found a couple last ones at southern river woolie in the stationary aisle with no pricing at all and scanned $5 each
This has to be the most ugly flash drive ever. But I'll buy it anyway. Thanks