Sandisk Cruzer Blade 16GB Flash drive is on sale for $2.98 at amazon australia.
According to CamelCamelCamel, this is a good price.
CamelCamelCamel.
Why on earth would a comment thanking OP be down voted?
Ozbargain logic. Someone is having a worse day than the op or the grateful respondent…
Thanks mate. Always comes handy.
Good price for dumping isos on (the real kind) and forgetting about it till you need to fix the computer.
Yes good for that purpose. Dont really need anything more advanced for that.
also good for a virtualization hypervisor's boot drive
Would not use these for that lol, far too slow.
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/aw/d/B01NARBPI7 pay a little extra if you're booting off it, it's worth it
Rebooting a hypervisor is a rare event so it doesn't bother me that much - only during system updates. But I get your point on the speed diff between USB 2 and USB 3
I use unraid which loads into RAM. So this would be fine.
I had one of these randomly die on me after a couple months, didn't even get used very much, thankfully not for anything mission critical. YMMV. Speeds were great while it lasted 🤷♀️ Also plugging it in was a pain because I had to keep my thumb on the slider while inserting or the data pin wouldn't connect. I wouldn't get this specific model again.
Cheers OP - very useful!
abs perfect for usb installers
Not really, any cheap USB 3.0 drive would be a much better option for a USB installer like a Windows installer, etc.
These are so slow that it would likely take around an hour to install Windows on a PC using this, any budget USB 3.0 drive would take roughly 15-20 minutes tops.
I only do a reinstall prob once a year max. So for me I don’t care if it takes 3 hours cause I’ll be relaxing and doing other stuff anyway like now when doing a reinstall.
I use these particular USB sticks for fresh windows 10 installs, it doesn't really take long to install on any modern PC with an SSD (the actual copying off the USB stick is still pretty quick, the rest of the installation doesn't use the stick at all).
Thx op
Pity the limit of 3 haha
need a top up of disposable usb drives
that means leaving the house :P
Officeworks deliver for free too with an order minimum. If you live near one they might even deliver next day. I even had same day once somehow, must have got their own driver instead of a courier.
also same price at Oworks
There’s a surprise 😲
I guess Amazon was price matching OW
All Ozbargained
USB2 - ughh :(
Wow that went fast
Imagine if it was for a USB 3
Back in stock (thanks lbft)
OOS within a few minutes
Last time I bought these from amazon was in 2019 and I only paid $2 a pop
That's all I think the are worth
Handy if you don't mind loaning them out and not expecting to get them back
Ah yes, so you mean giving them to my SO?
OOS, only showing options from 3rd party sellers.
Signed in to my 6 amazon accounts to buy 18! will resell nicely on ebay at $12 each, tidy profit thanks boys /s
Same price @Officeworks. Plenty of stocks, I got a white one this morning
It also has 64GB SanDisk Cruzer Blade USB2 Drive $6+ @officeworks
currently in stock now
Thanks got 3!