16GB Flash drive

Avoid Kingston the data transfer rate sucks. Verbatim is your best bet I have one of each & the Verbatim out performs the other. You should be able to pick it up for the same price.
 
You want good, but cheap?

Get a Corsair flash drive.
 
StellenboschStudent said:
I am looking to buy a 16GB flash drive... preferably a good make, something that will last a couple of years (my brother bought some cheap 4GB flash drive and it broke within a year)...
What is cheapest I can get a good flash drive?

I found this: http://www.sybaritic.co.za/store/product_info.php?products_id=39817
Kingston 16GB flash, R320. Any better deals out there?
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I recently purchased a Kingston Data Traveler 410 (16GB) for about R440. Data transfer rates: 10MB/s Write and 20MB/s Read which isn't too bad.

Avoid ANY flash drive with a retractable USB head, the transfer rates are impossible and the retractable part will break over time.
 
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I have a kingston 16gb, 18MB/s write and 20MB/s read.

Very fast and nice.

Also had a voyager 32gb, data transfer sucked!
 
I'm getting a few Verbatim Store 'N Go 16GB's delivered to me in Stellenbosch late next week sometime. 8MB/11MB Write/Read speed with a 2 Year Limited Warranty - maybe a bit slow imo. Never had major problems with them. Works fine for us. Going for R332 a pop if you are interested. But they have retractable USB heads that stroebs here doesn't like and I can see why some people won't like it.
 
IMO if you have a small flash drive that you just store docs on, Transfer rates won't matter much and those verbatim flash's are perfect, so are the Kingston ones. If you are storing large files that need to be transferred quickly (In my case, thousands of AutoCAD DWG files and lots of setup files) then you'll need a flash drive with 10MB+ Write speed and a decent read speed to go with it.
 
Slow flash drives suck, they take forever and forever to put stuff onto.
 
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