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128GB Flash Drives Any Good?
I just noticed am abundance of large capacity (128GB) flash drives on
the market quite cheap. I guess I just missed them. I had trouble in the past with the smaller ones, so I wonder if these larger ones are worth a trial? Anyone? Thanks J |
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John McGaw wrote:
On 8/14/2018 7:25 AM, wrote: I just noticed am abundance of large capacity (128GB) flash drives on the market quite cheap. I guess I just missed them. I had trouble in the past with the smaller ones, so I wonder if these larger ones are worth a trial? Anyone? Thanks J So, are we talking about some random vendor on e-bay selling something and claiming it is a good 128gB drive or are we talking about a known brand being sold by a reputable retailer? Huge difference there, believe me. In the past it was common for sleaze-ball sellers to have doctored drives that reported falsified size data (when they worked at all). Good catch. I didn't immediately associate "on the market" with "Ebay". Everything on Ebay that is associated with flash memory, is crap... to a first order approximation :-) There is no such thing as a "bargain" USB stick. Either they're seconds, or they're fiddled to indicate a capacity they do not possess. ******* Now *this* is a USB stick. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16820236344 CORSAIR Voyager GTX 1TB USB 3.1 read speeds up to 440MB/second write speeds up to 440MB/second Dimensions 0.42" x 1.04" x 3.07" Still fits in your pocket. And it fits in your pocket, because the stick removed your wallet. Paul |
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 12:34:01 -0400, John McGaw wrote:
So, are we talking about some random vendor on e-bay selling something and claiming it is a good 128gB drive or are we talking about a known brand being sold by a reputable retailer? I bought mine (SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 3.0) *years* ago from a vendor on eBay (located in Hong Kong). It's fast, reliable, used almost daily and it still works. -- s|b |
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On 8/14/2018 1:33 PM, s|b wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 12:34:01 -0400, John McGaw wrote: So, are we talking about some random vendor on e-bay selling something and claiming it is a good 128gB drive or are we talking about a known brand being sold by a reputable retailer? I bought mine (SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 3.0) *years* ago from a vendor on eBay (located in Hong Kong). It's fast, reliable, used almost daily and it still works. Sure, you can certainly get a good drive -- it isn't impossible. If the drive isn't a counterfeit and isn't made by some company like, for example, GXT, and if the vendor is likely to back up the sale. I find that buying some things from ebay is akin to Russian roulette -- most of the time it works out OK but when it goes bad... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kix3JKn08OU |
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... I just noticed am abundance of large capacity (128GB) flash drives on the market quite cheap. I guess I just missed them. I had trouble in the past with the smaller ones, so I wonder if these larger ones are worth a trial? Already been through this with Paul elsewhere so just for the benefit of those that didn't see that conversation .... I was bought a 1TB (1000/1024 GB) USB thumb drive as a present. It was extremely cheap from a Chinese seller. Sorry, I no longer have the details but they were posted previously for the world to see. To try to verify its capacity I managed to scrape together about 500GB of files to copy to the drive & IIRC that took a couple of days. Paul then showed me how to produce dummy files from the Command line. I think I managed to get up to 800GB on the drive before I had to give up because of time pressures. The write rate is somewhere around 6.5MB/sec - very slow. Probably luck that I received a good one but they are out there if you look carefully. -- Regards wasbit |
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Once upon a time on usenet wasbit wrote:
wrote in message ... I just noticed am abundance of large capacity (128GB) flash drives on the market quite cheap. I guess I just missed them. I had trouble in the past with the smaller ones, so I wonder if these larger ones are worth a trial? Already been through this with Paul elsewhere so just for the benefit of those that didn't see that conversation .... I was bought a 1TB (1000/1024 GB) USB thumb drive as a present. It was extremely cheap from a Chinese seller. Please define "extremely cheap". Cheers. -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) Sorry, I no longer have the details but they were posted previously for the world to see. To try to verify its capacity I managed to scrape together about 500GB of files to copy to the drive & IIRC that took a couple of days. Paul then showed me how to produce dummy files from the Command line. I think I managed to get up to 800GB on the drive before I had to give up because of time pressures. The write rate is somewhere around 6.5MB/sec - very slow. Probably luck that I received a good one but they are out there if you look carefully. |
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Once upon a time on usenet s|b wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 12:34:01 -0400, John McGaw wrote: So, are we talking about some random vendor on e-bay selling something and claiming it is a good 128gB drive or are we talking about a known brand being sold by a reputable retailer? I bought mine (SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 3.0) *years* ago from a vendor on eBay (located in Hong Kong). It's fast, reliable, used almost daily and it still works. My experience is that if the flash drive is cheaper than say 70% the price of a brand-name one sold through an official seller it's likely to be either REALLY slow or fake. (As the price drops further below that 70% the chance of being slow compared to being fake decreases.) -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) |
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