Lesson: Buying Cheap

Published on September 4th, 2007 - 11:40 am - by Josh | Add a comment below

Category: Rants

About 9 months ago I nabbed an uber-cheap 4GB flash drive from buy.com. At the time I wasn’t really concerned with speed or performance, I was getting a 4GB drive for $12 ($66 + $6 shipping – $60 rebate = $ 12 :) ).

To my disappointment, the drive bit the dust yesterday. I used it pretty much every day during the past nine months, but that’s no excuse. My SanDisk Cruzer Micro (512MB) that I bought several years ago is still working great, and I used it for a couple of years during college on an almost daily basis.

So, for anyone in the market for a flash drive, DO NOT buy an UltraProducts FlyDrive. I’ve included a photo just in case the name doesn’t stick with you.

FlyDrive

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2 Responses to “Lesson: Buying Cheap”

  1. Krysten Says:
    September 5th, 2007 at 3:52 pm

    You… are a dork.

  2. ryan Says:
    September 5th, 2007 at 4:06 pm

    the 4gb i got for christmas last year is still going strong. and i have abused the crap out of it. i think it was around $20 from buy.com after rebates

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