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by brianbooher 2 views

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I would like to know why Microcenter can sell their flash drives at such a cheap price. I have a feeling the cheaper the price, the cheaper the quality.
I hear they are slower than other USB drives, which is why they are so cheap, yet hold a lot of data.

What are your thoughts?

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by w2ktechman

and they seem to work fine. I only had 1 die on me so far, and MC replaced it without issue. I have had them for several years now.
As for speed, they are not the fastest, but they work fine.
For the price, pick one up and throw it in a camera or something, see if you like them. In my camera, and downloading from it, I found no noticeable difference between one of them and a Sandisk card of the same size.

by ---tk---

I have to agree with the above post. I have had a few in the past, they are a little slower, but just as reliable as any other flash drive. The price is great too! I have a SD in my PDA, Wii, cell phone, and two 2 gig flash drives... I havent had a problem yet...

by mrsylk69

I have bought a few of Micro centers Flash drives because of the cheapness. They are good just using them for text documents, But I am a photographer?It Guy and I use them for Raw and Photoshop pic formats and the write speed to these drives are writing possibly at 2X speed.I just got a 32GB drive last week and have about 20 gbs of data on it and it has actually started not writing data and will no longer copy, read or write to and from. Good thing it comes with a life time warrenty. But I will not be purchasing any more Drives from microcenter (at least their own Brand). They avertise as USB 2.0 but write with a 2x speed. Thats why their so cheap. These are just my thoughts

by ssybesma

I've now went through a second of their 32GB gold-colored USB flash drives.

They are the worst absolute GARBAGE. Stay away. DOA on nearly all of them I suspect.

The first one I got gave contant delayed write failues and the second one completely went haywire and CHKDSK wiped the drive clean. No other jump drives I have ever owned have come close to being that bad and I've used others on this machine and not one ever gave me a problem from the start.

I will spend the money next time to get something that actually works. These are total JUNK. Not even good enough for your kids to play with.

by the scummy one

Mine were not such a high data drive but they were mostly fine.

You do know they come with a lifetime warranty, right? Take them back

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