SanDisk Cruzer Blade 32GB USB Flash Drive $16.95 & Free Delivery

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  c64 on 12/02/2013 - 22:17

  +1

  hideously slow

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    Jangle on 12/02/2013 - 22:20

    +3

    Yeah, too slow for me. If you're going to get a larger flash drive it's worth getting one that supports USB3. Nice price though.

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      DeWalt on 13/02/2013 - 01:56

      +3

      I bought a sandisk extreme 32gb from MSY a few days ago for $35. I also have the 16gb version of this sandisk cruzer. Here are rough benchmarks…

      Cruzer write is 4.36 mb per second
      Extreme write is 88.6 mb per second

      Both speeds are an approximate average over a 2gb file write. My cruzer had very short bursts of higher speeds (maxing at about 7.8 mb per second) but the stalls meant that the average was much lower than these few peaks.

      There is no way I would pay this much for a product that is almost twenty times slower to save about $20. It's like comparing a push bike with a WRX.

      this might be a cheap price comparatively, but I would highly recommend you don't buy this model, or most USB drives for that matter :)

      the Extreme is one of the fastest models in the market, hence why I bought it and used it as a reference.

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  Omega8 on 12/02/2013 - 22:23

  I didn't know that but should be okay for me to store some photos

• drazenm on 12/02/2013 - 22:34 Comment score below threshold.
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    inertia on 12/02/2013 - 23:16

    +3

    Slow USBs can be painfully slow when you don't have time to spare.
    I bought a 64Gb stick, and wanted to copy over a 4Gb file while at a friend's house… let's say he didn't end up getting the file- it took all night to trasnfer ;/

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    FirstNameLastName on 12/02/2013 - 23:58

    +2

    "a few more seconds"? err.. um err.. earth seconds or..?

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    llama on 13/02/2013 - 02:35

    +1

    At 4mb/sec (as posted above by DeWalt), a 4GB ISO will take almost 17 MINUTES to copy onto this poxy USB stick.

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      FirstNameLastName on 13/02/2013 - 10:54

      usb3.0 sandisk extreme could theoretically read 4gb in 20secs (200mb/s).

      Perhaps drazenm should buy my 1982 Sharp MZ-700 computer so he can enjoy waiting 3 hours for the OS and and a game to load via cassette tape.

      It's not about 'lazy' etc.
      It's about computer's taking less precious time from our lives, per task performed.
      Perhaps your life isn't worth as much as others drazenm.

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  thelastnoob on 12/02/2013 - 22:58

  +2

  nice on a keyring but breaks easy

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  scrimshaw on 13/02/2013 - 03:01

  These USB sticks are so slow that buying such a large capacity is essentially a waste of money.

  You could probably burn 32GB worth of data to a couple of dual sided DVD's in less time than it takes to fill the Cruzer.

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  daver on 13/02/2013 - 05:48

  $16.95 & free delivery divided by 4.36 mb per second = $3.89 per-mb per-second.

  Hideously costly.

  +1 for SanDisk Extreme

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    fchis on 13/02/2013 - 09:13

    +1

    Frankly, i won't call it costly because some people will just buy it as a dispoable item (i.e. store them as a backup or trafer files between pcs occasionally). So if you want to use it for time sensitive tasks frequently, you can invest a bit more money in SanDisk Extreme which is almost double the price.

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    daver on 13/02/2013 - 11:15

    +1

    So maybe "Class 4" (springs to mind) is what throwaway SD +card readers have a deliberate purpose, for archiving apart from computers. This is not a typical image you get by "USB", "FLASH" & "Drive" though really is it. throughput 4 meg in 4GB+ terms, is closer a paperweight in active computing.

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  thomasdaley on 13/02/2013 - 07:13

  I just bought 4 16GB from these guys 4 days ago…. GRRR. Missed it by that much!

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  Shonky on 13/02/2013 - 09:47

  If USB 2.0 is fast enough, this is $14 at Umart so not a great deal… And probably not the absolute cheapest still.

  http://umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=&&b…

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    Shonky on 13/02/2013 - 10:07

    So my disk writes at about 11MB/sec sequential according to CrystalDiskMark and about 10MB/sec with USBDeview

    Not that the USB 2.0 interface is not the limiting factor here. It's capable of 25-30MB/sec typically. It's the speed of the flash that's the issue.

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  effgee on 13/02/2013 - 10:02

  Speed comparisons here: http://usbspeed.nirsoft.net/?pdesc=SanDisk+Cruzer+Blade+32GB…

  You will regret buying a disk this big, this slow, unless its for incremental backup.

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  ravian33 on 13/02/2013 - 14:47

  guys BE AWARE, these guys are worst than you imagine, no customer service at all, i have sent my memory card and its been 15 days they are saying they did not receive it, Australian post web tracking showing they delivered them 11 days ago….. they are saying they have P.O.Box system and they will get it once in a week blah blah…… i am leaving Australia for more than 3 months and i requested them almost 10 times please be fast and check my item. They accepted it and now they are not even responding my emails…….. there is no contact number on their website…. also on whirlpool a lot of people complained almost the same, ShoppingSquare does not have good reputation

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  jfkingdom1 on 14/02/2013 - 09:47

  Damn just about to purchase this but website says out of stock