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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject: USB Thumb Drive |
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While in the States, I picked up a few USB drives (I found some that were on sale). One of them, however, I am at a loss, as the plug is different from other types; instead of the typical enclosed USB plug, this one is flat with electrical traces visible. I am guessing it must have been made for a different market (Europe, maybe?). Are there any adapters for them?
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rubric
Joined: 28 Oct 2006
Location: Pongdongfongyong
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm pretty sure that type of connection still works fine in the usb outlet. Shiny side up. |
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ThePoet
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: No longer in Korea - just lurking here
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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This plug is the same as the USB that you normally use WITHOUT the metal enclosure. It will still fit into the computer and work fine...don't fret
It's kinda cute
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks--it does fit, but it seems quite a bit tighter than the usual type. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:40 am Post subject: |
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| bluelake wrote: |
| Thanks--it does fit, but it seems quite a bit tighter than the usual type. |
I've got a regular USB cable connection for my camera and it is also really tight. don't worry it'll loosen up over time. |
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SeoulFinn
Joined: 27 Feb 2006
Location: 1h from Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| bluelake wrote: |
| Thanks--it does fit, but it seems quite a bit tighter than the usual type. |
The tighter the fit, the better it is, right? Well, at least as long as you don't break anything while inserting, that is. The older types can be a tad lose. In my experience, these younger ones are certainly a lot tighter than those of the previous generation. And like Supehero said, these things get looser after a while. Unfortunately. |
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superdave
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: over there ----->
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:48 am Post subject: |
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some of the little micro usb thumb drives have the same connection ... the U in usb means universal!! there's only one type of conection. so you just have to remember which way it goes in.
i just upgraded from my 1 gig sandisk to a 4 gig. nice. now i can carry more unnecessary crap than i was before. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| For the record buy your USB drives here in Korea. I was in Canada for the last couple of weeks and I went into a couple of electronics stores and 1gb drives were going for $60-$70 but a few months ago at Yongsan I picked up a 4gb drive for only 25,000. |
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| yeah they're cheap as heck here. |
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idonojacs
Joined: 07 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:34 am Post subject: |
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SuperHero
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| For the record buy your USB drives here in Korea. I was in Canada for the last couple of weeks and I went into a couple of electronics stores and 1gb drives were going for $60-$70 but a few months ago at Yongsan I picked up a 4gb drive for only 25,000. |
Note to future newbies:
A) the price comparison is for Canada, not the States. And not for buying on the Web in the States.
B) the price comparison only works if you live near Seoul.
As with so much advice on this board, it is Seoulcentric. If you live in one of Korea's smaller towns, i.e. a city with less than 30 million people or whatever, things can be harder to find and more expensive.
The stuff in the main department stores, such as E-Mart and LotteMart, is often MUCH more expensive than the States, including USB drives.
So if you are not going to be near Seoul, you will probably save money by bringing flash cards, usb drives, hard drives, DVD-R disks, DVD-RW disks, CDR disks, CDRW disks, and laptops with you. DVDRW disks, for example, are about 2,000 won apiece, as I recall. They are mostly sold one at a time, or in three packs. Bargains? Don't count on it.
Exception: Rechargeable AAs and AAAs are about the same as back home in the department stores.
Maybe you will find a better deal when you get to Korea. After you figure out how to shop outside the department stores. Maybe not. But it's probably not going to be big savings. You will be lucky if you find a deal as good as in the States. And there is sales tax tacked on to every purchase here. 10 percent. |
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IlIlNine
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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They have the internet here too, you know. It's not THAT hard to shop and get stuff delivered. Besides, how often do you buy USB key drives? Chances are most people will get to Seoul at one point or another -- it's quite easy to work buying a USB key drive into whatever touristy things you may have planned.
Anyways, I find this a rather strange place to rant...
http://itempage.auction.co.kr/DetailView.aspx?ItemNo=A085986731&frm2=through |
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idonojacs
Joined: 07 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:30 am Post subject: |
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So IlIlNine says:
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They have the internet here too, you know. It's not THAT hard to shop and get stuff delivered. Besides, how often do you buy USB key drives? Chances are most people will get to Seoul at one point or another -- it's quite easy to work buying a USB key drive into whatever touristy things you may have planned.
Anyways, I find this a rather strange place to rant...
http://itempage.auction.co.kr/DetailView.aspx?ItemNo=A085986731&frm2=through |
IlIlNine, I like your sense of humor. It's quite refreshing, in a dry sort of way.
At least, I think you were joking.
Yes, future newbies, Korea does have the Internet, and you can buy USB drives on it for 36,000 won, plus an extra 2,500? 7,522?? for ???
I see it is USB 2.0 - of course, and I see "4G," so I guess it is 4 GB.
the rest is Greek to me, so to speak.
Now, I go to google.com, type in a few words in English, and voila!
http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/98807?rss=1
http://www.supermediastore.com/sandisk-cruzer-micro-4gb-u3-usb-flash-drive-white.html
the first gives the coupon for 10 percent off the second, which comes out to $35.96, no tax, free shipping, IN DOLLARS. Since US dollars are worth less than a thousand won, this option is cheaper.
OK class, which is easier and cheaper:
A) Don't buy anything till you get to Korea. If you are in hurry to get something before you get paid, change your dollars into won, at a price. Ask your co-teacher to spend the better part of an hour helping you order something worth 40,000 won off the Internet. Hope and pray the co-teacher knows something about electronics, and about the reputations of the mysterious Korean brands names. Buy co-teacher lunch. Just hope your co-teacher doesn't want any other favors.
B) Wait till you learn to read Korean and buy stuff off the Internet, using your co-teacher's credit card. Hope you have figured out the quality and reputation of the different Korean brands.
C) Order it yourself back home and bring it with you.
Why is it I see over and over and over and over and over posters INSISTING quite irately that things like this ARE WAY CHEAPER in Korea, and you are a FOOL and an IDIOT to not buy them in Korea?
Why?
IT'S NOT TRUE.
And if I am going to spend six hours each way and more than a hundred bucks to visit Seoul, I am not going to want to spend the time looking for a USB drive to save a few won.
Now class, just to review, assuming you are a native English speaker living in the U.S., which is easier:
http://itempage.auction.co.kr/DetailView.aspx?ItemNo=A085986731&frm2=through
http://www.supermediastore.com/sandisk-cruzer-micro-4gb-u3-usb-flash-drive-white.html
If the second is too easy for you, try any of a number of sites offering tons of options, nicely sorted:
http://techbargains.com/
http://www.xpbargains.com/
http://www.cheapstingybargains.com/
http://bensbargains.net/
Or just go to:
http://www.bestbuy.com/
Yes, it's more expensive than some deals online, but so is EMart and LotteMart. You have to pay for the convenience of a national chain store. But at least you can figure out when they have a sale at Bestbuy.
ONE MORE THING:
SuperHero wrote:
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| For the record buy your USB drives here in Korea. I was in Canada for the last couple of weeks and I went into a couple of electronics stores and 1gb drives were going for $60-$70 but a few months ago at Yongsan I picked up a 4gb drive for only 25,000. |
I don't live in Canada, but I know 1 gig USB drives haven't sold in the States for $60 for well over two years.
But I can go online. You see, Canada has the Internet, too.
Here's how much a 1 gig USB drive costs in Canada at a national chain store, or online:
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0926INGFS10081806&catid=20244&logon=&langid=EN&test%5Fcookie=1
(It's $19.99)
And here's how much a 2 gig USB drive costs IN CANADA:
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0926INGFS10074296&catid=20244&logon=&langid=EN
(It's $29.99)
To but it bluntly, Superhero is full of super shit. Unless he went shopping "back home" at one of those electronics stores in, say, Tuktoyaktuk. Last time I was in there, things were a bit pricey.
but that won't stop him or other posters from advising newbies to buy their bargain electronics in Korea again. And again. And again. No matter how many times you point out the errors in this crap, they keep repeating it. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:52 am Post subject: |
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| It's 8gig |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:52 am Post subject: |
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And I got a 4 gig USB drive at son-in plaza across from Yongsan station for 24k won last weekend (and that was the cash price, no filling in rebate cards). You want one too? Let's pop over there this weekend and grab a handful.
I also had a quad core system (q6600, 4 gigs RAM, 2 TeraBytes of HDD space) custom built, while I waited, for under 1 mil and I DON'T have to drag it over along with the other 50kgs of other stuff in my already overstuffed suitcase.
Entry level desktop systems can be purchased for as low as 350k including the LCD monitor.
Prices here are comparable with home (North America) and lots of the small stuff here is often even cheaper than at home. The notable exception would be a laptop with English windows on it.
The convenience of not having to drag this kind of stuff with you, for most of us, far outweighs any minor differences in prices.
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:01 am Post subject: |
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| I also had a quad core system (q6600, 4 gigs RAM, 2 TeraBytes of HDD space) custom built, while I waited, for under 1 mil |
No you didn't...show me who this can be done? |
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