I'm buying a USB for a 10 month travel trip to hold photographs, run internet applications and keep a diary.
I've narrowed down my choice to these 2 (I think)- does anyone have an opinion about which (or others) I should pick?
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San Disk Cruser Titanium + Portable Apps - U3 = WIN
I found that the Titanium line of thumb drives to be some of the most durable ones i have ever seen and dealt with. As for me i use my Lexar JumpDrive from nearly 6 or so years ago. It still works like a charm.
As for my Kingston... one of my 8GB thumb drives died deader than a doornail because of multiple bad "superblocks" T__T and it was brand new too. To think i paid 10 times less for the 8GB than i did for the Lexar 512mb.
wish you the best of luck d00d
Interesting- why do you rate Portable Apps over U3?
And why do you rate San Disk over the Corsair?
Portable apps are Free and open source and can be used on a variaty of Windows OS's. U3 primarly is for XP and Vista with some Win 2k compatibiliity. This doesnt work for people who still work on Win 95, Win 98 Win ME and NT computers let alone the Server versions of windows. Also U3 in my experience has made it tropublesome to use the drive U3 is installed on on Linux os's.
Why San Disk? The Titanium one has a unbreakable case. my experience with a friends (;P) San Disk was that it could survive a 4 story drop, being run over by a Humvee and then run over by a HSA vehicle, put in the washing machine twice, and hit with a 2lb rubber mallet. After all this the person's data was still intact! That is why i choose San Disk.
the only reason i'd choose Corsair is for the amount of space. they have at Frys a 128GB corsair thumb drive for 200 dollars and sometimes down to 89 on sale.
To be fair the Corsair is similarly durable, waterproof and able to survive the same forces the San Disk is.
The only difference I see is between the design, and the U3 of the San Disk. I personally prefer the design of the Corsair with its waterproof casing.
this water proof casing, if it is the model i think you are looking at, when it gets run over by a car you break its water proof seal. sure it will still work seeing as most thumbdrives are put through a deionized water bath before being put together. Get what every you want. if you do go with the corsiar get a large one :3
I have no experience with either drive, so I will say this.
No U3. please.
portableapps ftw
The drives I currently use are a Lexar Secure II, and a Kingston DataTraveler. both are 2GB.
for keeping a diary, look for storage foremost.
Hope this helps!
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i have quite a bit of experience with various drives. i only had one fail and it failed unrepairable luckily i got a bigger replacement :3 i still use my 512MB Lexar that i paid 200 dollars for 7 years ago. its been trough the was and has many many miles on it. ^o^
i have a survivor, 16 gig, got it for 32$ on amazon, and its awesome, good transfer speeds, and its basically bullet prood
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if you have the money and the gall to get something like it!