From: Mark Lasarko (mlasarko@co.ba.md.us)
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 18:33:34 GMT-3
Had the high-end Lexar, Sony's, multiple Cruzer's (Titanium, Mini, etc...)
Both were very durable until you drop them, a drop of water hits them, or a
young child was nearby :)
So after taping up a few casings and spending some time with the soldering
iron...
I found the (Corsair) Flash Voyager - and I love it.
1. It is less expensive than most (2GB ~$100. USD),
2. It has a rubber casing that is easy to grip
3. Between the rubber casing and cap it is also water resistant
4. 10-year warranty (by that time you'll have a 2TB flash drive instead?)
The 512MB's are ~ $40. and the 4GB's are ~ $180.
http://www.corsair.com/corsair/flash_memory.html
*I would get a minimum 1GB, that way you can be
sure you have enough room for future IOS images :)
HTH,
~M
>>> D R <deep.ratan@gmail.com> 01/19/06 2:53 PM >>>
I bought a 1gb SanDisk cruzer mini flash drive for $50 including shipping,
from Ebay. It's 2 inches long and about as thin as an ipod nano. works with
imb, works with mac, needs no installation software.....just awesome. a
coworker bought the same thing a year ago for $110. you also get 8gb flash
drives now but those babies are quite expensive.
On 1/19/06, Tim <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
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> Hey guys,
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> I need to buy a flash drive - maybe I'll get 2 drives each having 512 mb
> instead of one with 1 gig mb - I'm open to opinions on this.
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> But, I don't know squat about flash drives. (Don't laugh but I only
> learned
> of these things about 2 months ago.)
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> In any case, my gut sense is that these things are pretty much commodities
> and I don't need to be concerned about features, brand or compatibility
> and
> therefore I'll be OK shopping around for the lowest price. So, I just
> wanted to double check with the GS group on that.
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> Of course, if anyone has any buyer's advice for me, I'd like to hear it.
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> Any brand I should avoid?
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> Any features I should look for?
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> Any source (ebay) you would recommend or avoid?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Tim
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