Found these cheaper drives when trying to buy some from the deal.
- These are great for OS recovery and bios flashing
- Color coded
- BIOS flashing requires FAT32 format in my motherboard and USB 2.0 upto 32 GB are perfect for that.
SanDisk Cruzer Blade USB Flash 32GB 3 Pack $10 + Shipping / Pickup @ Officeworks
950
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Thank for the info
I have one from years back that is still good. My use isn't heavy though.
Yeah I've still got some of these rattling around, and the problem I have is losing them rather than them breaking.
connector is plastic, so have to baby them.
I've had one for 6 years still going strong. They don't just fall apart, it depends how you treat them.
No moving parts. It can only be attributable to human error, Dave.
Opposite of my experience… rock solid.. use them on the road with a toughbook in some shitty conditions, never broken one.
I wait for the free one from them from the other day.
I've still got several from last time that I haven't got rid of yet. All 16Gb tho.
These are not good for doing OS recovery at all… unless you are very patient.
These will suit fine for doing basic file transfer, BIOS updating, etc.
You saying this slow?
What is read/write speed?
USB 2.0. If you want non-painfully slow transfer speeds you want USB 3+
Never seen them this cheap.
Normally I go for microSD in readers (and adapters) because the storage can be used in so many devices, but I can live without that flexibility at these prices.
Thanks ozmma!
Very cheap, just what I needed. Thanks!
USB2.0 is a very slow transfer speed. Good if your transferring small Word, Excel, MP3's, BIOS updates.
Bad if your transferring Movies, Games, anything over 1GB large.
Very slow transfer rate.Got nothing to do with USB 2.0 versus USB 3.0.
The write speed of the stick doesn't come close to saturating the USB 2 bus, let alone USB 3. The memory's write speed is the slowest link in the chain, not the USB version.
Bruh. Seriously? You knew exactly what I meant. Technically your right. I am letting people know that they are slow transfer USB drives.
Not entirely true, large files would transfer faster as they'd be sequential r/w than lots of small files. USB sticks in general suck with random r/w.
USB 2.0 bus has little to do with it given even a lot of usb 3.0 sticks dont saturate the 2.0 bus speed. Better idea would be to look at the speeds of the sticks and then make a judgement instead of going off ahh its usb 2.0 = slow
The description of this states 3 pack, but it is confusing that the listing states "Pack Quantity 1".
Ok, so that must mean 1 pack of 3 for $10.
Have a look at this item: https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/sandisk-cr…
Similar product in a different colour - but it states "Pack Quantity 3".
Now if that was 3 packs of 3 for $25 that would be an even better deal, but I am sure that is not the case.
I actually prefer the colour scheme of the more expensive 3 pack - maybe the lairy colours are the reason for the cheap price in the deal.
5 year warranty vs 12 months may explain it.
Thanks, bought this.
LOL USB 2.0
The write speed of this stick doesn't even come close to saturating the usb 2 bus. So USB version is not the bottleneck.
Unless you are copying large files very often, I am amazed why so many people would place such importance in this area. Read speed is plenty fast for nearly all tasks.
I am using these for linux OS boot disk for over 2 years. Never a problem!
where would the cheapest place to get USB's at least 8gb as they will probably only get use once or twice and i am not likely to get them back
$3.33 ea here are already pretty cheap
Thanks OP, I bought 3 packs of these… I have a Caravan TV that takes only USB 2.0 sticks and it appears this is the biggest 2.0 that I can put movies on and have them work in this TV.
300GB odd of storage should be fine for this…..
Some say usb 2.0 is too slow for recovery. No it's not.
How often do you have to recover? So what if it takes a few minutes…
Oh you kids… We used to image systems using parallel port connected Zip drives of 100mb. USB2 is luxury I tells you, luxury!..
Im actually honestly surprised by the sheer number of people complaining about USB 2.0 and thinking its much of an issue… Surely you smart folk understand USB 2.0 speeds doesnt equal the speed of the usb drive. Just like how SSD's arent all the same speed?
For some actual numbers these do about SEQ 30MB/s Read and 15MB/s Write. Fine for doing most stuff.
Some of my USB 3.0 drives do SEQ 50MB/s Read and 30MB/s Write while some others do SEQ 150MB/s Read and 50MB/s Write.
The only constant is that most if not all usb sticks will eat shit when doing random read writes that peak at 5-10MB/s Read and 1-3MB/s Write.
FYI, those USBs are very poorly made and can break easily. I've had lots of them and most of them broke