16GB Kingston Memory Stick - £23!
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£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
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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
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£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
However it is a good price for the UK market
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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!
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!
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brownie
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.
:redface:
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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.
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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?
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?
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mahutchinson
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
I would always buy branded drives now. Bought a replacement from Play.com
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