Flash Drive Recomendatrions

[NomNom]

Learnt a very hard lesson tonight, I was trying to connect this old case front USB ports to a new motherboard, problem is that it was in single wires and after many tries I eventually got it right, problem was I tested it with my 8GB USB 3.0 flash drive and it seems like it's broken/blown the flash drive

So yeah I'm looking for any recommendations seeing that it's a sea of them out there to choose from.

I like the push out design, I hate the cap design, must be 8GB and preferably USB 3.0 I'm looking for speed.

Something like this: http://www.ngrcomputers.co.za/adata-c103-8gb-usb-flash-drive-black-p-65704.html

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Check these out : http://www.sybaritic.co.za/store/index.php?cPath=322_626

 

[NomNom]

Check these out : http://www.sybaritic.co.za/store/index.php?cPath=322_626

They are all cap designs

Looking as these now:

http://www.ngrcomputers.co.za/adata-c008-black-amp-red-4gb-flash-drive-p-56609.html
http://www.ngrcomputers.co.za/adata-c103-8gb-usb-flash-drive-black-p-65704.html

Any better ones to choose from?

 

[lived666]

Get the new wireless flash drives - connect up to 8 devices such as pc, tablet smart phone etc without internet or router.
You can even stream different movies to 3 different devices simultaneously.

http://www.sandisk.com/connect/wireless-flash-drive.html

 

[NomNom]

Get the new wireless flash drives - connect up to 8 devices such as pc, tablet smart phone etc without internet or router.
You can even stream different movies to 3 different devices simultaneously.

http://www.sandisk.com/connect/wireless-flash-drive.html

Looks interesting thanks.

 

[howardb]

+1 for ADATA - used a few of their flash drives and they seem just as good as the Kingston's, etc. Haven't had one let me down yet, and have been using many different sizes and models

 

[Pada]

I have the older C102 model of that 8GB ADATA flash drive and it is still working well.

The only problem that I have with it is that after 2 years of use, I've pushed off the bottom end, which you cannot do with the C103.

Just take note that the write speed of that flashdrive is still quite limited at about 10MB/s (actually less when you're not running benchmarks).
The actual (non benchmark) read speeds are pretty decent when using it with USB 3.

The bigger (16 - 32GB) flash drives do offer better write speeds too. eg. Transcend Jetflash 700 32GB @ R300 incl shipping will give you like 30MB/s write and 70MB/s read. * these speeds are probably also just in benchmarks, but its already better than the ADATA C103.

Update:
On a side note: I've also broken a flash drive and mouse of mine by wiring up my front USB to my firewire header when I was in a hurry to install a CPU cooler

 

[Hamish McPanji]

If you getting a 4gb or 8gb, you don't really need to go for USB 3 , will just cost more for minimal benefit. And worth it of your computers are USB 3.

This is the USB selection : http://www.sybaritic.co.za/store/index.php?cPath=322_36

Also, HiFi corp has got a special on sandisk ones from tomorrow : http://www.sandisk.com/products/usb/drives/cruzer-blade/

4gb for R70 , 8gb for R80, and 16gb for R150

 

[ChocolateBadger]

NOT a Sandisk Cruzer Blade 16 GB...It has a hardware bug that will lock it in readonly mode. I know because that's what happened to mine Only 2 weeks old

EDIT: The problem is with the cruzer blade range.