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shifdog



Joined: 20 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:38 pm    Post subject: USB Thumb Drives Reply with quote

I'm interested in getting a thumb drive in the 1 GB range. I wanted to get a Corsair Flash Voyager GT. But it's not Korean, so it's not available here. So I've resigned myself to getting something of lesser quality.

Does anyone know any decent ones with pretty good transfer rate? LG and Imation seem to be pretty popular, but they don't tell the transfer rates on the packaging.
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Demophobe



Joined: 17 May 2004

PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What one needs to be concerned with are the read/write speeds. Typically, thumb drives choke on small file transfers as well; copy a mass of .doc files and you will see the men and the boys clearly.

Although I cannot recommend one brand in particular, I will say that from my experience, you get what you pay for. A balance between buying a name and a quality product is the go.

Google some of the products you are considering. LG drives have a write speed of 8.0MB/sec and read 10MB/sec. From the LG USA site...perhaps the Korean products are different. However, googleing in Korean would work...the numbers are in number. Wink
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also consider just getting an SD card and a USB caddy. It's a tiny bit bigger than a keychain drive but you can use your SD card in a range of other devices (digital camera, pda, even some laptops have built in card slots now).
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rocklee



Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you want to get a little more than just a thumb drive you can get one that also plays mp3s such as Samsung/Yepp and M-Cody.

Here's my old mp3/thumb drive :

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shifdog



Joined: 20 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm looking for something with a good read/write speed. Since I'll be transferring small files and using portableapps. The Korean USB thumb drives are only about 10 mb/s which isn't that great.

What's the speed like for an SD card or mp3 thumb drive?
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rocklee



Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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What's the speed like for an SD card or mp3 thumb drive?


I guess that depends on how fast USB is since data has to be transfer through it Wink
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea

PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:34 am    Post subject: Re: USB Thumb Drives Reply with quote

shifdog wrote:
I'm interested in getting a thumb drive in the 1 GB range. I wanted to get a Corsair Flash Voyager GT. But it's not Korean, so it's not available here. So I've resigned myself to getting something of lesser quality.

Does anyone know any decent ones with pretty good transfer rate? LG and Imation seem to be pretty popular, but they don't tell the transfer rates on the packaging.


Really, at 10k won or so for a cheap 1 gig one, use it till it drops and then get another one. Hells, at that price, get a pair and a spare. They are essentially disposable.

They are NOT permanent drives, think of them like big floppies used for your sneaker net.

On a more practical note, I picked up a 30k won, 4 gig Korean model a the Nanjin arcade a couple weeks ago and it works just fine for transferring files or packing my stuff from classroom to classroom at my public school and dragging stuff home when I want to.

I picked up my 2 gig no-name Korean USB drive a year ago and it still serves me well too.

1 gig video files only take a couple minutes to transfer and I run .ppt and flash files directly from it all the time.

Like any removable drive, I keep the files on it backed up - or more correctly, keep the original files on my HDD and just copy onto the USB drive as needed or as updated.
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