256 / 512GB USB drives

Discuss topics which do not fit into any of the forums above

256 / 512GB USB drives

Postby YetiSeti on Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:27 pm

These seem to be popping up on trademe for cheap prices at the moment and are cheap on the Asian sites. Does anyone have any experience or opinions on these? I do wonder what the error/failure rate might be on these. It's an awful lot of gigabytes at a very low price compared to retail store prices. At this stage I don't think I would trust one with my dna sequence, redundancy in all...
YetiSeti
 
Posts: 368
Joined: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:27 pm

Re: 256 / 512GB USB drives

Postby matsondawson on Thu Sep 19, 2013 6:12 pm

It sounds unlikely, the price is too low.
A bit of a search around finds this: http://www.scambusters.co.nz/forum/view ... &start=540
matsondawson
 
Posts: 333
Joined: Mon May 11, 2009 4:34 pm

Re: 256 / 512GB USB drives

Postby Gibsaw on Fri Sep 20, 2013 12:57 pm

Yeah, low price USB sticks from asia usually tend to be anything up to 1/100th of their rated size with some sort of wraparound write going on.

An old expression about "barge poles" springs to mind.
"dsakey" on trademe. Apple II's are my thing.
Gibsaw
 
Posts: 709
Joined: Sun Dec 19, 2010 2:45 pm
Location: Auckland


Return to Other Off-Topic Chat

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests

cron