Posted: 10/28/2010 5:17:53 PM EDT
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Is there any logical or sensible reason why a person would pay xxx amount of dollars for a certain capacity drive, when they could pay XX for another drive of the same capacity?
Example... Micro Center has 17 different 8GB flash drives listed. Prices range from $12.99 - $39.99. Is there any greater benefit to purchasing a more expensive unit (reliability, data retention, etc), than a less expensive one? Personally, I place them in the same category as any other removable storage media... floppys, CD-R's, DVD-R's, cassette tapes, etc. I can't recall any instance of using a cheaper brand of media that was any less reliable than the more expensive media. |
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Quoted: Personally, I place them in the same category as any other removable storage media... floppys, CD-R's, DVD-R's, cassette tapes, etc. I can't recall any instance of using a cheaper brand of media that was any less reliable than the more expensive media. Right there you're wrong. Cassette tapes had all sorts of varying quality issues from hiss in general to construction in general. Never had CD-Rs start shedding their coatings have you? I have. Flash based media has it's differences too. |
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There's an article online somewhere about this guy who dissolved a shitload of keychain drives (maybe SD-ram, dunno) and looked at the silicon to see who made them. Turns out a great many of them are exactly the same under the hood. Same mfr.
That said, there's a big diff in rates between USB and USB2. |