Memory stick information
Apr 5, 2005 | 12:58 pm
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Memory stick information
Can someone point me to the best over all memory stick and where it is the cheapest to get it. I am looking for a good value not necessarily the "best" one ever made.
Apr 5, 2005 | 1:19 pm
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I don't know how much capacity you're looking for, but I've seen Lexar and SanDisk 128MB memory sticks for $25-32 including shipping. I found these prices through Froogle.
Apr 5, 2005 | 1:43 pm
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Originally Posted by auh2o
Can someone point me to the best over all memory stick and where it is the cheapest to get it. I am looking for a good value not necessarily the "best" one ever made.
Apr 5, 2005 | 2:51 pm
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Got a SanDisk 256MB stick for $25 after rebate at Circuit City last month.
As for "best overall," I don't think there's enough difference to matter. They all do pretty much the same thing, with pretty much the same (high) reliability, and pretty much the same (fast enough to seem instantaneous) speed.
These are the standard medium for my students to bring in their classroom presentations these days. Among the group they use every brand any of us has ever heard of and a few more besides. Most of them get fairly heavy use storing all the stuff they're working on so they can sit down at any lab machine and have all their files. Nobody has ever said a thing about any problems with any of them. I've never noticed a performance difference in transfering files to my laptop or running a PowerPoint presentation from the stick.
Go for capacity, price, size, appearance, convenience of store...
As for "best overall," I don't think there's enough difference to matter. They all do pretty much the same thing, with pretty much the same (high) reliability, and pretty much the same (fast enough to seem instantaneous) speed.
These are the standard medium for my students to bring in their classroom presentations these days. Among the group they use every brand any of us has ever heard of and a few more besides. Most of them get fairly heavy use storing all the stuff they're working on so they can sit down at any lab machine and have all their files. Nobody has ever said a thing about any problems with any of them. I've never noticed a performance difference in transfering files to my laptop or running a PowerPoint presentation from the stick.
Go for capacity, price, size, appearance, convenience of store...
Apr 12, 2005 | 4:36 pm
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Are you talking about Memory Sticks for a digital camera, etc or are you talking about the little portable drives that you stick in the USB drive. If you are looking for the little portable drives then just check the Sunday paper, there is always atleast two or three different models in the paper at various places such as Comp USA, Circuit City, etc.