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Tuesday October 10, 2006
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Don't get this confused with a 64MB flash drive. CDW is actually selling a 64GB flash drive on their site called the Buslink Pro 2 Series. Unless you're one of the former owners of YouTube, the $5,740 price tag might be a bit of a turn off. The Buslink has read speeds of 20Mb/sec and write speeds of 15Mb/sec. It even comes with security software that password protects your drive. Don't have $5700 at your disposal? Heck, you can finance it for a monthly fee of $180 Even more shocking is that there are no product reviews listed for the item. I usually like to hear what other consumers have to say.
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October 11, 2006 9:53 AM
Snikeys! That's a big flash drive! With a price tag to match! I don't know what's worse, the fact that the price tag is so high, or the fact that I could easily fill 64GB with data I'd love to cart around with me. :) Still, I've noticed that for $5700 USD, you do get a really nice feature that's been missing on all of my flash drives up to this point, A KEYRING. :( I think I just have horrible luck with drives, but I can never find one where the keyring attaches to the BODY and not the CAP. :(
October 11, 2006 2:04 PM
This is just way over the top. I think of myself as a "Techno Geek", but this is beyond even that. I would need a larger key ring to carry around 64GB worth of flash drives! My 1GB Lexar JumpDrives dont look so shexy anymore. The JumpDrive DOES have the keyring hole on the correct side, but to carry around 64 of them would be plain embarassing.
October 11, 2006 2:06 PM
@phoenix my adata 1GB flash drive (it flips around.. not really a cap) is attached to the body.
October 12, 2006 8:49 AM
I'd be too darn afraid I might lose it! I'd have a chain through the key ring and going around my waist! Is it waterproof?
October 12, 2006 1:04 PM
Waterproof? I don't know about this particular drive, but I've had several different drives go through a laundry wash or wash/dry cycle and keep on working. My only precaution was to disassemble the drive and make sure it was 100% dry before applying power to the device. My only misgiving about a drive this big is that the "directory" area of the memory will wear out long before the rest of the drive. These devices need to have bad block utilities so they can take a failure in one block and keep on going.