Harvey Norman in Bella Vista have the little 4gb sticks for $1.99
Sign says only available this weekend.
Bought 1 yesterday, going in for more today.
I had a pocket full of change and that's all I needed ;)
I might grab a few for various bootable sticks.
It's cheap and rather slow…other than that, don't use it as a long term storage for important things.
Bought a Sandisk 8GB Cruzer from OW yesterday for $4.73. Slightly quicker and doubles the storage.
slow? have you run it through CrystalDisk? can you post results? Read times are crucial to me.
You honestly think I'll benchmark a $2 device? Go buy the usual Sandisk/Corsair if read times are critical.
CrystalDiskMark (64bit)
http://i46.tinypic.com/auegky.jpg
I've got no idea if these results are good or not lol
CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]
Sequential Read : 14.387 MB/s
Sequential Write : 4.152 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 14.430 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 0.357 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 5.461 MB/s [ 1333.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.003 MB/s [ 0.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 5.812 MB/s [ 1419.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.003 MB/s [ 0.8 IOPS]
Test : 1000 MB [G: 0.1% (4.8/3716.8 MB)] (x5)
Date : 2013/02/10 14:37:54
OS : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)
I reckon 4gb is getting too small these days. 8gb is a minimum for me, although most people would argue 16 as a minimum
4GB's joined together has advantages and disadvantages to outright buying a bigger size; for starters you have redundancy, and you can still transport big files if you use winrar to archive them.
Although it's more to manage, which is also a pro as losing 1 isn't such a big deal.
That being said, the stick looks pretty poor anyway.
That write speed is too slow for me. You should be looking to buy 10MB/s ones if you want to transfer anything more than a few word docs over and what not.
Be warned, these are terrible USB drives. Extremely slow writes and reads. The reads are not much faster than the writes! It also refuses to work in my TV's USB socket, the TV won't even turn on when it's plugged in. My Astone media player and Bluray player also won't recognise it. I've tried a few times reformatting it to FAT 32 or NTFS, exactly the same formats as my other Lexar and Sandisk drives but it still refuses to work.
The one I tried will NOT work as a USB boot disk. I tried multiple times. Test one for yourself before wasting money buying lots of them. I use USB boot drives regularly for hard disk diagnostics, and the Toshiba simply doesn't work. Maybe there are multiple versions of this drive, I don't know, but the one I bought from HN a couple of years ago fails for me.
Good 'deal' but bad 'product' - I'd avoid this one. If they have the Lexar brand 4GB for the same price in the same discount bin, that's a much better bet.
I agree with the above these are useless.
I've been able to use one of these USB drives as boot disc to do a clean install of windows 8 pro(upgrade) on a PC without an optical drive and it worked fine, I didn't even have to worry about the registry hack that had been mentioned as required by some users on a clean install, it activated without any problems.
I've used it on the Astone MP310DT, Samsung series 5 smart TV, Samsung series 5 smart Bluray theater system, Asus laptop not to boot, Asus pc not to boot with no issues what so ever.
Only reason I purchased them was I had some $$ left on a gift card and couldn't find anything useful to buy.
If I didn't have the gift card I wouldn't have purchased them, 32GB USB 3 should be what people are aiming for now.
I just tested it again, it is not recognised with the Astone AP-300 or AP-360T, and meither my LG or Soniq TVs will recognise it. The Soniq TV won't even turn on if the Toshiba 4GB USB drive is attached to the USB port.
Astone MP-310DT has different firmware to the AP-300 and AP-360T, so maybe that's why it works. Also I may have a different revision of the Toshiba drive. But as per the Crystaldisk results posted above, these are rubbish drives.
I've bought them from Harvey's for $1 before. They are OK drives.
They're good for lending to people if you value your $30+ Sandisk/Corsair's. Other than that, nope. Even useless as a door stop.
Yeah I agree, they aren't think enough to prevent my door from closing, I would recommend a piece of wood
Even funnier thing is, you get negged for negative feedbacks?
…maybe we should all be praising rubbish but cheap items despite their flaws.
Anyone knows is there a deal for a 16 gb one?
OW have 16GB Sandisk for only about $9.50.
Stay away from that pendrive mate, I bought it (a few) last month when it was 2 dollars.
Save 1 photo in it to Harvey to print out. went there and the pendrive it dead.
the controller is working, detected, but 0 byte !
open up, the memory fell down, all the solder pin side is rusty! imagine 20 solder points and yet it drop.
less than 24 hours and it's a goner.
tried as a boot disk, it works for my case though. (for another not faulty one……. at least not yet)
Agreed. Bought 3 of these, the 16gbs at HN one day for about $10, and that very night, ended up with Data Errors, and the computer wouldn't even recognise them the next day. Stay away from Toshiba flash drives at all costs if the data you want to put on them has any importance to you :)
same here! 16GB one failed after a few uses :(
I bought a heap of these awhile back to create OS installs. They work fine, but do seem slow. Definitely wouldn't store important documents on them if they're to be used regularly.
Hi
Is there any coupon for this?
When I visit to the page it shows $9.00
It'd be an in-store only deal - and only certain stores for that matter.
The website says $9.00, in store the ticket price is $4.50,
then in the metal wire bin with a sign for $1.99
They were $2.49 a few weeks ago when i bought two of them. The price must be different from whichever HN franchise store you go to. Some say they got them for $1 each and others it's $1.99 each. They are rather slow drives especially on the writes.
DONT BOTHER! bought 2 last time and both were corrupted. another trip to HN to return them eliminates the savings in travel costs!
As other people have said, these are rubbish. I've used them and have had them fail and lose data. Go with the first comment and get a 8gb SanDisk from officeworks.
Bought 2 for this price a few months back, still a good deal though.