Equal all-time low according to CCC.
These are great for devices you want to add storage to, but don't want a stick hanging out of, and $10 is a decent enough price.
Time to upgrade the storage on the best media player of all-time, the one and only Nvidia Shield.
CamelCamelCamel.
Compactness, and USB 3.0, rather than USB 3.1
Funnily enough, I care about compactness, but not USB 3.1 over USB 3.0 in my application.
Showing up as $19 on my side of town, and if my mathematics is correct that's an extra $9, over the original $10
1 AAAA batteries required!
USB 3.0, USB 3.1 Gen 1, and USB 3.2 Gen 1 are all the same thing. Literally only marketing names.
Literally?
in terms of these drives, yes, 3.0 is faster than their xfer speed so 3.1 or 3.2 won't matter. but pretty disingenuous statement taken at face value.
@jbird84: No, literally.
If it doesn't specify the generation, or states it's generation 1, it's USB 3.0. As in, literally the USB 3.0 specification with nothing extra. They just retroactively renamed them. It's stupid and confusing.
You will also find some of these drives will be blazing fast on one motherboard with usb3 where as super slow on another mobo. So are they the same?
Basically a mini usb at this point
Upvote for the deal, and the Shield reference.
Must resist… don't need more USB drives…
These are great for music in your car. Fast enough and they don't stick out much so are low risk for breakage or socket damage.
Exactly what I use my for, you can fit a lot of albums on 64gb.
OOS :-(
Sorry! hate it when that happens.
On the good side, backorder is available from what I'm seeing, might be worth putting in an order.
These mini drives never last as long as the larger usb drives in my experience
I got these for $17 each last year I think from Kmart are these better
SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive Go USB Type-C and USB Type-A Flash Drive SDDDC3 -
I got them for downloading music i purchase and will transfer on to a bigger hard drive at some point.
Are these just as good as above in this thread and what’s the best deal the $10 ones?
Aren't these the ones that get really hot?
Yes they melt after a while. There is a more expensive metal version
Yes, I had a lot of issues with one when playing high-bitrate video
Yup. Summer sun in the car + drive heat = becoming one with your usb port.
In my experience, these drives get very hot, writing to them is frustratingly slow and lastly, the plastic plug cracks after numerous plug/unplug cycles. I bought a bunch of these a couple of years ago and after I saw how hot the first one was getting and how the plug split, I sold the remaining (unopened) ones on eBay. They're tiny though (which can be handy) and the best use I have found for the one I kept was in the car for mp3 playing. If you want something much sturdier and faster writing then get the Samsung Fit Plus. They're also tiny but are much more expensive (though well worth it).
Yes they'll get hot while you're transferring a heap of data to them, and they aren't crazy fast, but then they cool down! Just don't use them where frequent transfer of data is required
In the use case described above by many (storing mp3's in a car stereo), once you're done with the original transfer, then they aren't going to get hot reading an mp3 at a rate of 1Mb-2Mb/min
they aren't going to get hot reading an mp3 at a rate of 1Mb-2Mb/min
They do in Sony headunits. I had 4 of the bastards and moved them all to cold storage duties for my parents. Too hot for the car, even in playback.
Well I stand corrected! Going through 4 is quite persistent. Maybe the time of year/climate has an impact!
I bought this one for $9 + delivery, seems to still be in stock: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B077VXV323
32GB though
Doh! Sorry!
I have/had one this size and kept losing it - in fact I can't find it now !
if it were red like my new Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 64GB - $16 from https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/394820521496 - that might reduce the risk -
but for now my biggest risk with the tiny one is I lost it and can't find it again !
Bought one of these to use for my Unraid server. Last 3 months and was broken.
Hotter than the sun.
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Or could get 128GB USB 3.0 for $15 if you don't care about compactness - https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00P8XQPY4?smid=ANEGB3WVEVKZB&t…