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What are the top USB storage drives?
I want something high speed to store some portable apps. I heard the Lexar JumpDrive Lightning is good but i cant find any in the uk. ![]() Mike
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Yea I would say that Lexar from my experience have been the best price/performance thumbdrive. I bought some 16gb on boxing day for 12.99 cdn. I also have some others from a company called Dane-Elec that are 8gbs. I bought them from the Source for 7.99 and they have a lifetime warranty. Even Lexar doesn't have a warranty like that.
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http://www.barryrudolph.com/newtoys/toys4/corsair.html
http://www.trustedreviews.com/storag...ager-GT-8GB/p1 The Corsair have some of the fastest read/write speeds that I´m aware of. I record from a TDT USB recorder/player,and for recording MPEG 2 you need something quick. Also they are water resistant. (Beer Spillage )I alsmost forgot. The kingston Green retractable 8gig is a lot cheaper and high speed read and write. You could also look at a 2.5 external case with a (up to 500g) laptop HD , which does´nt need external power .
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Thanks guys, The Kingston Data Traveler HyperX seems quite good to but around £21 for 4GB.
Hmm decisions, decisions....
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I think i'll get a SanDisk 8GB Cruzer Titanium, Seems a bargain at £17.
Although i heard that higher capacity thumbs have a slightly slower Read/write time?
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The sandisk cruzer has good read speeds (around 20mbps) but the write speeds are very poor. I purchased the 16g cruzer and I wished I had´nt.
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Some remove the U3 software but i think i'd give it a chance. I dont think i'll find a better 8GB for £15? (Amazon)
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Personaly I would go for:
1. Corsair gt. Very fast read/write. water resistant.shock resistant. 34MB sec/read and 27mb/write 2. DataTraveler HyperX 30 MB/sec read speeds and 20 MB/sec write. 3. Sandisk cruzer titanium. reasonable speeds 15MB/s read, 9MB/s write Quote:
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Ok Thanks for the help. Still think i'll get the sandisk just because of value.
Cheers guys
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The cruzer titanium is a great flash drive. It's not the fastest, but it's near indestructible and the capless design is brilliant.
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