Re: Thumbdrives - what's a good brand?

spodosaurus wrote:

> kreed wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 5, 8:16 pm, Sheik Yerbhouti <s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> Snapper <snapp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>>
>>>> I have had my second thumbdrive fail. It's a 1 gig Imation. It 
>>>> started with
>>>> files in folders becoming corrupted. ie. one folder had a lot of 
>>>> stuff in it and
>>>> these weird files appearing. and Explorer cannot delete them either.
>>>> So I formatted the drive and copied the data back onto it from 
>>>> backups. Then
>>>> other problems appeared, all file related.
>>>> So I must assume that the unit's stuffed.
>>>> The likes of Harvey Norman have barrells of thumbdrives of various 
>>>> sizes and
>>>> brands in the bargain bins as you walk in the door. Just wondering 
>>>> if any brands
>>>> stick out whether for good reasons or for bad.
>>>
>>> Stick with SanDisk. I use an 8 GB one without a problem. The **** ones
>>> break, had very bad device driver sup****t, and will make Windows 
>>> crash and
>>> burn without warning.
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> HAVE used a couple of kingston 4gig thumbdrives since january and had
>> no problems with them.
> 
> 
> Same here. Do NOT buy Astone drives. Both of the ones I've had (512MB 
> and 4GB) have failed for no discernable reason, and either Astone or the

> distributor did not act well/stuffed around the retailer when the latter

> drive was sent back for warranty replacement.
> 
> Ari
> 
Leaving the unit in the USB jack with the write protect off does a lot 
of wonders for a drive stick when OS'es like Windblows is constantly
writing to it along with user added software.

   I do what my daddy taught me since I can remember!

  Son:
    Always make sure you pull out the stick and you know what ****t your
in.


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