16GB Kingston Memory Stick - £23!

[stugster]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/160890
:eek::eek::eek:


I bought one, and it's brill! :D

[KM-Tiger]

Once upon a time.............


that would have been a big hard disc!

[stugster]

I was at a client's yesterday (A secretarial services lady who does lots of typing). Backed up her entire 10GB hard disk on to it. She couldn't believe it! :D

[GaryMc]

First PC that I bought for myself - at uni in early 2000 was 13GB hard drive

My iPod will store more than that

[Comspec]

£23.00 man that's expensive ;)

I bought 4 from Hong Kong at £10.50 each and they are excellent. Good build quality too even, which shocked me most lol.

I have noticed more and more customers asking for the larger 16Gb etc, when very few of them actually need it. It's becoming a comparison not unlike the, ahem, car analogy of olde :D

[FireFleur]

I find myself collecting them, and not using them :)

It is an addiction, I wait till the price is right, and then just add one to an order of something else.

There is one with a fingerprint reader as well:

http://uk.lge.com/products/model/detail/flashmemorymedia_ubhp2galp.jhtml

[downsouth]

I find myself collecting them, and not using them :)

It is an addiction, I wait till the price is right, and then just add one to an order of something else.

There is one with a fingerprint reader as well:

http://uk.lge.com/products/model/detail/flashmemorymedia_ubhp2galp.jhtml

but only suitable for people with 10 fingers!!!!! No Thumbs allowed :D

[FireFleur]

Well a thumb is a finger, gosh I am going to sound like an English Lit. Nerd:

Websters
1. One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit;
esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than
the thumb.

hmm they have spelt extremities wrong, so I bet some Politics Major Nerd added the esp. bit :)

[leemason]

Once upon a time.............


that would have been a big hard disc!

Once upon a time that would have been mainframe storage...

[leemason]

PC World are selling a 4GB memory stick with 256 bit AES encryption for about £17.00 - pretty impressive!

16GB would make a great little portable backup device.

[wizzard]

£23.00 man that's expensive ;)

I bought 4 from Hong Kong at £10.50 each and they are excellent. Good build quality too even, which shocked me most lol.

I have noticed more and more customers asking for the larger 16Gb etc, when very few of them actually need it. It's becoming a comparison not unlike the, ahem, car analogy of olde :D

However it is a good price for the UK market :)

[davidshaw89]

I got a 16GB Bytestor back in February for £18 from Amazon. Only bad thing about it is that it doesn't have the "read/write" switch.

I think at the time they had 32GB ones available, but they were too expensive to justify at the time :|

I saw on pixmania (I think) some usb drives that were 16GB but were really tiny! Although I think some of them are just too small. Still, it could be handy if you needed to carry it everywhere all the time!

[computer storm]

They also do a 64Gb memory stick as well but this cost a lot more than most people would spend.

[leemason]

Basically storage is getting cheaper and cheaper - I might start to offer a free USB memory stick with online backup accounts of the same size! In fact I think that would be a great idea. That's why I like being on this forum, all sort of good things come of it!

[brownie]

I find myself collecting them, and not using them.

Same here, gathering quite a collection as the HW and SW vendors like handing them out, the strangest one being from HP covered in rubber and bright orange. :rolleyes: :redface:

[mahutchinson]

How long do these things actually last ? I only have one bought 3 or 4 years ago and just use it occasionally. The use of flash in notebooks worries me too, along with CDs/DVDs as well. There doesn't seem to be a long term storage method these days. My slide films and camcorder tapes will still be sitting on my shelf long after I accidentally delete my hard drive and backup.

[stugster]

They're more robust than CDs and DVDs. The only time they'd ever fail is if you abuse it. Even then, they tend to stick around. The Gadget Show (or some other gadgety-tv programming) showed users just how sturdy they were by running over them with cars, etc.

[FireFleur]

It is hard to get real life times on them, there a few reasons, there is a big erase/write debate, and nand and nor, and advances by 10 times etc.

But shelf life is sort of thought to be about 1 decade.

But it could be longer, or stored in some oddly damp place lower?

[mahutchinson]

They're more robust than CDs and DVDs. The only time they'd ever fail is if you abuse it. Even then, they tend to stick around. The Gadget Show (or some other gadgety-tv programming) showed users just how sturdy they were by running over them with cars, etc.

This reminds me of the media articles about CDs, claiming you could use them as frisbees and spread jam over them. My son manages to damage his Thomas DVDs in five minutes just by holding them. Guess I need a media streamer - thinking about building a Linux box for that.

[rmapply]

Hello...
The pendrive to which you are mentioning is china made because i have 32GB pendrive of kingston its not working so before purchasing take care....

[retroedgewebdesign]

I bought an 8gb Kingston for under £10 from Play.com a while back, briliant usb stick I must say. I remember when we bought our frst PC back in 1995 (I think) and the guy who sold it to us said we'd never ever need more than 1gb...hahahaha, how times have changed.

[Cornish Steve]

Bought a couple of 5GB sticks the other day for $10 each (that's about £6). With the proliferation of large music and video files, these prices are great.

[bluesea]

I bought a 16Gb pen drive on ebay about 4 or 5 months ago. All looked ok. It showed up in windows as a 16Gb drive and it worked ok. That was until I had 2 Gb worth of stuff on it and it wouldn't take any more files. It was a 2Gb drived but was modified to look like a 16Gb drive. The drive was unbranded and from Hong Kong.

I would always buy branded drives now. Bought a replacement from Play.com