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07-02-2007
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Join Date: May 2004 Location: arch linux
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| USB Flash Drives
Prices are dropping by leaps and bounds on those little USB flash drives.
I bought a 1GB Corsair Voyager Flash Drive from Newegg two years ago for $78 (on sale), and they now offer the same drive for just $13 (regular price). That's amazing!
I find that these little drives come in very handy for extra storage. Do any of you keep them on hand?
I've got the following USB flash drives:
1GB Corsair Voyager
1GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro
512 MB SanDisk Cruzer Mini
512 MB SanDisk Cruzer Mini
The Corsair Voyager drive suddenly stopped being detected one day a couple of months ago and I was going to throw it away, but noticed that it is guaranteed for 10 years, so I checked out the Corsair website and requested an RMA for returning it under warranty. They've already approved my request, so I'm now waiting for the replacement drive to come in.
If it all works out, I'll be quite happy with the Corsair folks, and their extra long guarantee/warranty period.
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| I have the 2Gb Kingston data traveller, cost me about £15 three months ago (then that was ~$25) but you can get them now for as little as £12 (that's ~$25!). I only really needed it to put some music files on to carry to work and back. So I set up all the free space to boot into SLAX. I now carry around my own Linux environment on USB stick. | |
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| | Bigtomrodinator
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| That's pretty cool. Those Corsair voyagers are great. I know it only says water resistant but I actually put mine through the washing machine. 100% AOK!
I was just looking at getting a new one. The problem is that I just bought a Dell laptop but because of the horrendous pricing on RAM and Hard Drives with Dell I bought a 160GB HDD and 2GB of RAM seperately. That left me with a 60GB sata drive so I bought an enclosure for it. Pretty cool.
I'd still prefer to have my old Corsair Voyager (which I traded to someone) but I'm having trouble trying to get a swap. Speaking of cheap memory that 2GB of RAM I got was DDR2 533MHz. It only cost me | |
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Originally Posted by Roxoff  ...cost me about £15 three months ago (then that was ~$25) but you can get them now for as little as £12 (that's ~$25!)... | Indeed the pound (GBP) does seem to be remaining strong (sorry, totally off-topic)
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07-03-2007
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| I have a 2GB SanDisk Cruzer. While the capacity is nice, it has the annoying "feature" that whenever I plug it into a Windows machine, it starts up some program that's meant to make it easy to access the device or something. Totally useless in my opinion, but I can't seem to get rid of it. Does anyone know how to make it stop, or know of another nice flash device that isn't so feature-rich but still retracts the USB connector into the body? | |
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Originally Posted by Zelmo I have a 2GB SanDisk Cruzer. While the capacity is nice, it has the annoying "feature" that whenever I plug it into a Windows machine, it starts up some program that's meant to make it easy to access the device or something. Totally useless in my opinion, but I can't seem to get rid of it. Does anyone know how to make it stop, or know of another nice flash device that isn't so feature-rich but still retracts the USB connector into the body? | I used this to remove it from mine and it worked perfectly: SanDisk | U3 Launchpad Removal Tool
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| Moore's Law prevails!
Soon the things will be given out as a gift for buying a box of cereal. 
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| Well I bought a bytestor 2.0Gb flash drive with an ubuntu installed on a 750Mb partition with the rest as a r/w partition called /caspar its brilliant taking into computer stores and rebooting demonstration models to see if all the hardware works 
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Originally Posted by ozar | Thanks ozar, that looks to have worked nicely! | |
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Originally Posted by Roxoff I have the 2Gb Kingston data traveller, cost me about £15 three months ago (then that was ~$25) but you can get them now for as little as £12 (that's ~$25!). I only really needed it to put some music files on to carry to work and back. So I set up all the free space to boot into SLAX. I now carry around my own Linux environment on USB stick. | I got this one for 15 euro. It has low r/w speeds but I love it anyway
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