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Good price if you don’t need USB 3.0 or larger storage.
Seen in Harvey Norman’s Half Yearly Week 3 catalogue, 14-19 January.
From the past weeks’ deals on the 16GB and 64GB versions of this product, it is expected that Amazon and Officeworks will also lower their price to match. If you get in quick, you might get 5% off with Officeworks' Price Beat.
who else has this on back order ? I ordered 2 in that deal from HN
I'm wondering if I can walk in store, pick up two of these and show them that I have already paid and walk out !
LOL would you be better off with this : https://www.harveynorman.com.au/sandisk-cruzer-blade-64gb-us…
64gig for $10 on right now.
Depends if you actually need 64GB. I’m looking to make a recovery drive so 32GB is good. Why pay more if you don’t need it?
Fair enough
Then 16 GB will also suffice for recovery disks? I got few 16 GB when they were $2. Not sure if they are still at that price.
Unfortunately not in my case - available space on a 16 GB drive is not actually 16GB. I’ll let someone more techie than I to explain that!
I got a $2 16GB drive just after Xmas too and the recovery media creator won’t accept it…
@kelea: Thanks. I hadn't tried yet so will watch out for this hiccup. Microsoft recommends 16 GB USB drive.
You can dump a bunch more drivers onto it :)
Actually you'd be better off with this. 64gb for $8.78
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/verbatim-u…
this are great if you use them to replace CDs (in other words change data on the drive only so often) write speed on them is terrible.
12-year-old son's new PC
It's not the USB, it's your son downloading malicious crap.
There's no 'buyers beware' because your comment makes no sense.
Do you think these USB sticks come pre loaded with viruses?
If your your 12 year old son has a virus then you need better antivirus software + education on what sites are safe.
It's possible they may have loaded viruses onto the USB prior to shipping I believe.
I bought him a new PC and a new USB and we haven't had a problem since.
I'm going to assume you are lonely and ozbargain is your single only option of communicating with people.
I can almost guarantee it's the 12 year old in that equation.
Update, update, update, keep those Microsoft updates going! They are half the battle in keeping your PC safe.
That being said, your son might be safer on an Android based system (get him a little Android box to plug into the 2nd HDMI input on his monitor) if he wants to browse 'those' sites… then use his actual computer for study
Trying to share potentially important info about dangerous corporate behaviour, not sure why I get negged for that…
Because you are sharing misleading behaviour caused by a 12 year old not being warned about downloading shady executables, probably to mod Minecraft (the worst culprits).
I would have bought close to 1000 USB flash drives over the years, and not a single one came with a virus.
Used USB drive on son's new PC.
Son got viruses.
We are not seeing the link between using a computer and your son's multiple health problems. Has he consulted an immunologist?
USB 2.0 Lul
which 3.0 do you recommend
Verbatim USB 2.0 32 GB = $4.66
Is this any good?
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/verbatim-3…
I saw that but have never used Verbatim for flash drives. Interested to hear from any who have? Think they’re known for making blank cds/dvds back in the day?
My experiences with sandisk has been good so I’d be happy to pay the extra 30-40c. Thanks for raising this though.
i bought one for school back in 2010's - one of those push out ones, still worked for couple years until i lost it.
though it was one of those push-out ones and kept sliding when i trying to plug in, which i assume the pusher outer thing just started to become looser
Be aware that the USB port is plastic on these, I find it wears through and splits after not that long.
Paid $4 last week
There's a reason why these are all so cheap right now: the transfer rates are terrible for the drive size.