Seeking Flash Drive Recommendations

emcee2 said:

32GB, USB 3.0 (or higher), USB 2.0 (backwards compatible), Fast read speed, Decent write speed. ~$10us or ???

The complaints on Amazon are the same for every drive... Slow. Starts fast and becomes slow. Stops transfers for long periods of time. Unusable for making large transfers all at once. Write speeds too slow to use. Lost data...

Some reviews love each drive and someone hates on every single one, and not just in the normal hit and miss of Amazon reviews.

Do you have any experience with a 'good' flash drive? Please share opinions and speeds.

To tell the truth, I think all of the ones I've ever had were hand-me-downs. Never put large files on them. I don't think I've even owed one more than 4gb, or 8 at the most. Don't remember them getting hot, put who knows if they did or not.


Thanks, emcee2

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Whatever you buy, buy twins. Sometimes one of two will suddenly fail during input or output and the other one works just fine. For critical non-backed-up stuff - I often use twin USB flash devices.

I don't mind the speed too much but then I'm from back in the floppy disk days, talk about slow. Then there's the work I do with clients and on-site time.

Berton said:

I don't mind the speed too much but then I'm from back in the floppy disk days, talk about slow. Then there's the work I do with clients and on-site time.

Remember how some software came with a stack of 3.5 inch disks.

SoFine409 said:

Remember how some software came with a stack of 3.5 inch disks.

I still have a full set of MS-DOS 6 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11, haven't counted them in awhile but probably about 15. But I also have a Toshiba Tecra Notebook that works.