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IMO, Patriot drives are the best. Very fast and reliable. Sturdy soft rubber grip too. They cost a little more than most, but my data is kind of important, so it's worth it.
They consistently win customer's choice awards. Did I mention they are very fast? 200X fast. I'll probably never use anything else.
Btw, I've done side by side benchmarks of various brands, and the patriot wins every time.
Don't ask for a poll, there's too many brands.
Last edited by wolfen69; July 9th, 2011 at 01:01 AM. Reason: Never outsource your thinking - Chris Perillo
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whatever is the cheapest.. i have about 5 free flash drives lying around. Its reminds me of floppy disks from back in the day.
I think the only one I ever paid for was the Ubuntu branded one I picked up around 10.04. Only because it had it preinstalled on it.
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Don't really care much. I've NEVER had a thumb drive fail and I protect my data through redundancy anyway.
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Except that floppies can't hold 1 to 128 gigs of data.Originally Posted by LowSky
I find my 16gb thumby to be very useful.
Last edited by wolfen69; July 9th, 2011 at 01:06 AM. Reason: don't even start!
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Yeah I've got many of the buggers laying around. I use them for work. I do prefer Toshiba and Sandisk though.
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Re: What brand of flash thumbdrive do you prefer?
Patriot for me as well.
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This mostly. Altho I have more then a few Sandisk brand ones (non U3, thankfully).
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You can delete that. One of mine came with it. I just removed it and reformatted it to ext4. Done.
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I had one that could not be removed. But it still worked OK. Patriot drives come naked.
The reason I need a good reliable drive is for when I make house calls. A lot of people have under 4gb of data, so it is convenient to just use a flash drive to temporarily back up their stuff. I tend to trust flash drives more than an external hard drive.
Last edited by wolfen69; July 9th, 2011 at 02:23 AM. Reason: nevermind
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Are you serious? What about when it was formatted?
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