I generally such as my last video card purchase paid more to get 50% of the potential savings such as the following to do away with the rebate gamble and collect instantly 1/2 of the mail in rebate potential.
I was just about going to throw it away and I figured I'd try Mc Donalds and YAY Mc Donalds accepted it and so the $12 lunch for me and my daughter was now just $2 out of pocket. Only problem now was that Subway resturant wouldnt accept american express, tried wal-mart and they also ran it and it came up unable to process through them. After about a month surprise in the mail was a $10 prepaid American Express Credit Card. However I did buy two OCZ SSD's a year ago when the price was low for SSD's and got a 60GB and 90GB for like $45 for the 60GB and $55 for the 90GB and on top of that OCZ had a rebate offer through newegg to get $5 off of each of the SSD's so I was going to get $10 back. I have had bad luck with rebates where I bought something say today and the rebate expires in 7 days and I send it in and it is send back stating that it was not submitted in time etc or I never hear back and never see the $5 or $10. I have bought many things through newegg, although I generally avoid the rebates because my mindset is that if they can give you a rebate, why dont they just give it to you right then and there vs having to play this game and make you take the time and postage to mail in the proof of purchase with all supporting documentation and waiting. I would really like to find a deal like this on a 64GB Micro SD. I'm still trying to decide if I should grab this one or wait for the next sale. I probably won't have a need for a 64GB flash drive any time soon. There is a consumer demand for cheap flash drives. They have huge bins of really low priced 2, 4 and 8GB flash drives at Walmart for back to school every year and they always sell out to be replaced with something different looking but with the same specs. These lower end storage devices are more targeted at casual users needing to backup personal files or have a way to carry around documents or school work. But now anything new is done with a sync program so it only takes a few minutes to add / overwrite or remove files. The first time I used it I copied around 12GB from my computer to the Cruzer Facet and it took a little over a few hours. My music collection out grew my 16GB SanDisk Cruzer so I finally needed to get bigger storage. but in the end I found out that the reason why i got it for like $4.99 when other 1Gb of the time were $20 was because these were SLOI have only had it for about 4 months. I have a 1GB MicroCenter that I purchased with CentOS 6 on it years ago for like $4.99 in which I thought I was scoring a 1GB drive cheap when 1GB was BIG.so its years ago.lol. its about average for cheap flash drives with cheap memory. In regards to speed, this 3MB/s Write Speed is not the slowest i have ever seen. *But they do work!Īs a Test for speed difference, I put Linux Mint 13 on a 8GB Kingston Traveler and also on this 16GB PNY and timed how long it took to boot the same computer off of the thumb drives to Linux and the 16GB PNY Attache was almost 2.5x slower than the Kingston 8GB Traveler when using stop watch. And while they do work, just like this 64GB, they are much slower than the Kingston and SanDisk brand ones I have for writing information to them. I bought 4 of them, and only found 4 of them because the large bin that held them was empty and people forgot to check the shelf with the other USB Flash drives where they had a row of them hanging and I grabbed 4 of them. I bought some cheap PNY Flash Drives last Black Friday before Christmas at Staples where they had these PNY Attache 2.0 16GB drives for $6 each with a limit of 4 per customer. *Personally if anyone had that much data to store to a flash drive, I would suggest going with the USB 3.0 64GB Flash Drive which is way faster, although it wont be this cheap!
Not a bad deal, but its not a speedy device in comparison to others that are USB 2.0 and run up to 10MB/s Write and 20MB/s Read.
#60gb usb flash drive pny 2.0 full#
The Read Speed isnt too bad at 13MB/s, but if anyone was wanting to back up to the full capacity of this device, you pretty much will tell it to copy and walk away for the next 6 hours for 64GB. ( * Note I didnt do the 1000 to 1024 conversion )
Divide that by 60 to make how many minutes it would take and its 355.55 minutes, and divide that once again by 60 for hours and you have a device that takes 5.925 hours to fill to 64GB capacity. if it were 64GB and not lesser which most are, 64GB comes out to 64000 MB divide that by 3MB/s and you have 21333.333 seconds to fill the drive. Was just curious as to what 3MB/s Write Speed would mean for this device that is 64GB.