USB flash drive - 4 GB £9.99

joe25

Just got a email about this
Here is the link
P+P is £2.95

http://www.dvd.co.uk/Hw/Kingston-DataTraveler-USB-flash-drive-4-GB-Hi-Speed-USB-purple/DTI-4GB/product.htm?fs=NL81&utm_id=NL81&utm_source=NL81&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=NL81

branners69

Any idea of the transfer speeds of this? How long would it take to transfer 1gb?

joe25

Have no idea
As i said just got email and it looked like a good deal.

branners69

It seems like a great deal alright but I have heard some nightmare stories of a gb taking over 5 mins to transfer onto some of this usb flash drives!

thewools

I own this usb key - speed wise it pretty good.

Overall no complaints really - it light, very portable - just have it hooked along my car keys etc

The top plastic usb cover falls off quite easy if dropped etc but havnt lost it yet...so :D

I got it off ebay for about €27ish so this looks to be a great deal imo

Johnny Storm

Thanks all. I ordered one.

ch750536

EDITED


DTI-4GB = Data transfer rates of up 6MB/sec. read and up to 3MB/sec write


very very slow.

long_b

Got one of these for sister-in-law: must say it doesn't seem that slow

chump

to be fair these cheap things are slow as fkk

i've a 2gig generic piece of **** that cost next to nuttin

so slow I could cook a roast dinner while transferring an episode of 1 minute wonders

Buy quality and something that will last you a few years rather than a POS like this

branners69

Any particular make/model you would recommend Chump?

Am in the market for a 4gb one and dont mind paying for speed!

JackieChan

joe25 wrote: »

Just got a email about this
Here is the link
P+P is £2.95

http://www.dvd.co.uk/Hw/Kingston-DataTraveler-USB-flash-drive-4-GB-Hi-Speed-USB-purple/DTI-4GB/product.htm?fs=NL81&utm_id=NL81&utm_source=NL81&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=NL81

Accoring to the link its Hi-Speed and not Full-Speed.
So that roast dinner could be cooked before copying your latest Lost download on to it!

_Whimsical_

Banner , I bought a cheap ,E27, Play branded 4gb flash drive on play.com a few months ago and it was very good (until I broke it!). It transferred films etc in a matter of seconds but for the most part I just played them straight off the drive without transferring them to the laptop without any stalling etc. There was never any problem...until I stood on it that is

jor el

I have one of these Kingston 4G sticks. Just did a quick test and it took 2:30 to transfer 1GB. Not the fastest but also not the slowest. I have an Infinion one I bought from SVP last year and it takes about 6 or 7 minutes to do 1GB. That one was awful.

Oracle

MX2 are offering a 4Gb USB drive for £13 with free delivery, so it works out at about the same price.

ch750536

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-Super-Rugged-Resistant-CMFUSB2-0-2GBGT/dp/B000OM3VQ4/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1201470936&sr=8-3

32.1/22.5 MBps

branners69

Hey ch750536,

what does the 32.1/22.5 MBps mean? Obviously its mb per second but why the two numbers?

Cheers

branners

tman

branners69 wrote: »

Hey ch750536,

what does the 32.1/22.5 MBps mean? Obviously its mb per second but why the two numbers?

Cheers

branners

Read speed and write speed I would assume

Cabaal

Got one of these 4GB Kingston USB sticks and can't fault it, have it over a year and got it from dvd.co.uk

ch750536

Odd thing with flash drives, the speed never used to be an issue as they were not that big. (I remember having an 8mb one...) however, now they have reached huge sizes (32 gig) it makes sense to stop buying cheap and start buying well.

One thing performance
another is reliability.

The crucial ones are guaranteed for 10 years and are washing machine resistant, need I say more.

If this were a HDD, nobody would even contemplate buying the one that is 6 times slower, yet for all purposes is is a HDD (without the D)

Don't throw money away, I'll take it if you don't want it.

Johnny Storm

I got mine yesterday. Works fine. Physically smaller than I expected.
Speed seems good.
Is there a relatively easy way to measure the speed of these things?