Reliable Flash Drive For Under $40?

[[JiF]rIot]

Anyone have any reviews? Im taking C++ this semester and need to find a decent flash drive for cheap money!

[[JiF]Mentat]

Don't buy one off the street...
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x45/ ... ownusb.jpg

[[JiF]Beezer]

rofl

[[JiF]Rhykin]

Haha, very nice.

SanDisk's Cruzers are good in my opinion. I bought mine 2 months ago and have put it on my key chain (which is on my lanyard). It has gotten a tough beating and has held up well.

[[JiF]Beej1024]

From a security point, I hate anything with U3 on it. I dont like code running on my PC without my approval. u3 is too much like a rootkit for my liking, but I am a snob too...

[[JiF]rIot]

I used to have a flash drive with U3 and I hated it. Some pc's weren't compatible w/ it...

[[JiF]Lonewolf]

I use a WD Passport pocket drive, its a little larger then a thumb drive but its also a 6GB drive. I have put it through a beating and it still works fine and I have had it almost 2 years now. It has been in the mud from when I went 4 wheeling and just a couple of months ago it was in the lake when we was building a bank support around it and I jumped in to hold the steel frames in place so we could bolt them together and I forgot I had it in my pocket and I was chest deep in the water for about 20 minutes and it still works fine.

I'm not sure of the price now but I gave $50 for mine in February of 2006 so they should be cheaper now I would think.

I just looked at Amazon and they have them for $51.99 which is a little more then what your wanting to pay but for me its worth the extra after I have seen what mine has went through and still works fine.

[[JiF]Rhykin]

From a security point, I hate anything with U3 on it. I dont like code running on my PC without my approval. u3 is too much like a rootkit for my liking, but I am a snob too...

Heh, I don't use it on Windows computers so I haven't noticed.. When I got it I formatted it and put a Linux partition on it.

I'll keep note though.