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I bought an Intenso 64Gb stick for £25 in this deal... http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/intenso-64gb-business-line-flash-usb-2-0-saverstore-25-38-delivered-1208989?utm_source=deal-alert-email&utm_medium=email-link&utm_campaign=deal-alert-email
Copying 18Gb of photos (187,000 files) from my USB 2.0 Laptop to USB stick took over 12 hours!
I subsequently bought a 7dayshop 'high speed' 64Gb USB stick for £23 in this deal... http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/7dayshop-memory-64gb-high-speed-usb-3-0-flash-key-drive-black-capless-swivel-30mb-1262145?utm_source=deal-alert-email&utm_medium=email-link&utm_campaign=deal-alert-email
The same task with the 7dayshop stick took only 50 minutes, an astonishing performance difference. It comes with a 5 Year Warranty. Highly recommended.
In hindsight, I regret buying the Intenso. You may be making a similar mistake if you buy the stick in this deal.
Do you work for 7dayshop? You must have copy and pasted this comment into 4 threads I've read already. This isn't the intenso stick and neither were the other ones that you posted on.
Edited By: clemf on Jul 29, 2012 21:45
I bought an Intenso 64Gb stick for £25 in this deal... http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/intenso-64gb-business-line-flash-usb-2-0-saverstore-25-38-delivered-1208989?utm_source=deal-alert-email&utm_medium=email-link&utm_campaign=deal-alert-email
Copying 18Gb of photos (187,000 files) from my USB 2.0 Laptop to USB stick took over 12 hours!
I subsequently bought a 7dayshop 'high speed' 64Gb USB stick for £23 in this deal... http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/7dayshop-memory-64gb-high-speed-usb-3-0-flash-key-drive-black-capless-swivel-30mb-1262145?utm_source=deal-alert-email&utm_medium=email-link&utm_campaign=deal-alert-email
The same task with the 7dayshop stick took only 50 minutes, an astonishing performance difference. It comes with a 5 Year Warranty. Highly recommended.
In hindsight, I regret buying the Intenso. You may be making a similar mistake if you buy the stick in this deal.
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Jump to unread Post a CommentI bought an Intenso 64Gb stick for £25 in this deal... http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/intenso-64gb-business-line-flash-usb-2-0-saverstore-25-38-delivered-1208989?utm_source=deal-alert-email&utm_medium=email-link&utm_campaign=deal-alert-email
Copying 18Gb of photos (187,000 files) from my USB 2.0 Laptop to USB stick took over 12 hours!
I subsequently bought a 7dayshop 'high speed' 64Gb USB stick for £23 in this deal... http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/7dayshop-memory-64gb-high-speed-usb-3-0-flash-key-drive-black-capless-swivel-30mb-1262145?utm_source=deal-alert-email&utm_medium=email-link&utm_campaign=deal-alert-email
The same task with the 7dayshop stick took only 50 minutes, an astonishing performance difference. It comes with a 5 Year Warranty. Highly recommended.
In hindsight, I regret buying the Intenso. You may be making a similar mistake if you buy the stick in this deal.
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=113677
I bought an Intenso 64Gb stick for £25 in this deal... http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/intenso-64gb-business-line-flash-usb-2-0-saverstore-25-38-delivered-1208989?utm_source=deal-alert-email&utm_medium=email-link&utm_campaign=deal-alert-email
Copying 18Gb of photos (187,000 files) from my USB 2.0 Laptop to USB stick took over 12 hours!
I subsequently bought a 7dayshop 'high speed' 64Gb USB stick for £23 in this deal... http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/7dayshop-memory-64gb-high-speed-usb-3-0-flash-key-drive-black-capless-swivel-30mb-1262145?utm_source=deal-alert-email&utm_medium=email-link&utm_campaign=deal-alert-email
The same task with the 7dayshop stick took only 50 minutes, an astonishing performance difference. It comes with a 5 Year Warranty. Highly recommended.
In hindsight, I regret buying the Intenso. You may be making a similar mistake if you buy the stick in this deal.
Do you work for 7dayshop? You must have copy and pasted this comment into 4 threads I've read already. This isn't the intenso stick and neither were the other ones that you posted on.
Edited By: clemf on Jul 29, 2012 21:45
Tempting, I'd probably jump right on it if it weren't branded.
How much do people use USB sticks nowadays btw? I seem to end up using cloud storage for work stuff, external hard drives for anything big.
Tempting, I'd probably jump right on it if it weren't branded.
How much do people use USB sticks nowadays btw? I seem to end up using cloud storage for work stuff, external hard drives for anything big.
I use them every working day, I have 4 or 5 with tech tools on them, but other common applications are for media playback on televisons, e.g. films and photos. Using as a PVR function, using for booting a linux based OS as a media centre hub. Used to share documents and files. MP3 playback in a car. Use it for portable apps and/or a portable desktop. So essentially there's many varied uses for memory sicks and therefore they're in mass usage everyday. There's also Windows to Go >
http://www.bgr.com/2012/07/09/microsoft-windows-8-usb-stick/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_To_Go
I can't wait for them to get larger and even cheaper, then I can store multiple iso images of machine installations to universally restore to hardware.
Edited By: fishmaster on Jul 29, 2012 23:12
Nope.
I bought an Intenso 64Gb stick for £25 in this deal... http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/intenso-64gb-business-line-flash-usb-2-0-saverstore-25-38-delivered-1208989?utm_source=deal-alert-email&utm_medium=email-link&utm_campaign=deal-alert-email
Copying 18Gb of photos (187,000 files) from my USB 2.0 Laptop to USB stick took over 12 hours!
I subsequently bought a 7dayshop 'high speed' 64Gb USB stick for £23 in this deal... http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/7dayshop-memory-64gb-high-speed-usb-3-0-flash-key-drive-black-capless-swivel-30mb-1262145?utm_source=deal-alert-email&utm_medium=email-link&utm_campaign=deal-alert-email
The same task with the 7dayshop stick took only 50 minutes, an astonishing performance difference. It comes with a 5 Year Warranty. Highly recommended.
In hindsight, I regret buying the Intenso. You may be making a similar mistake if you buy the stick in this deal.
Do you work for 7dayshop? You must have copy and pasted this comment into 4 threads I've read already. This isn't the intenso stick and neither were the other ones that you posted on.
That's unfair. Dooper has posted on this site for some years now with useful info. He's making a clear, factual point that USB 2 sticks, such as the Intenso and this one, are painfully slow for large file transfers. The price versus performance is up to the individual. I've also noted Dooper makes similar points on various threads: it's called being helpful. As you can see, other posters at 3 and 4, apart from me, endorse his point.
At this price, you can't have everything!
Edited By: Dilbert on Jul 30, 2012 12:40: spellung
I bought an Intenso 64Gb stick for £25 in this deal... http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/intenso-64gb-business-line-flash-usb-2-0-saverstore-25-38-delivered-1208989?utm_source=deal-alert-email&utm_medium=email-link&utm_campaign=deal-alert-email
Copying 18Gb of photos (187,000 files) from my USB 2.0 Laptop to USB stick took over 12 hours!
I subsequently bought a 7dayshop 'high speed' 64Gb USB stick for £23 in this deal... http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/7dayshop-memory-64gb-high-speed-usb-3-0-flash-key-drive-black-capless-swivel-30mb-1262145?utm_source=deal-alert-email&utm_medium=email-link&utm_campaign=deal-alert-email
The same task with the 7dayshop stick took only 50 minutes, an astonishing performance difference. It comes with a 5 Year Warranty. Highly recommended.
In hindsight, I regret buying the Intenso. You may be making a similar mistake if you buy the stick in this deal.
Do you work for 7dayshop? You must have copy and pasted this comment into 4 threads I've read already. This isn't the intenso stick and neither were the other ones that you posted on.
That's unfair. Dooper has posted on this site for some years now with useful info. He's making a clear, factual point that USB 2 sticks, such as the Intenso and this one, are painfully slow for large file transfers. The price versus performance is up to the individual. I've also noted Dooper makes similar points on various threads: it's called being helpful. As you can see, other posters at 3 and 4, apart from me, endorse his point.
Agreed..
I have the 7dayshop USB3 and it is a lot faster than this one even on USB2 ..30+MB/s read and write.
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=113677
sadly, as I found out the hard way, the USB 3.0 sticks cannot be made bootable.....which screwed up my plans for a Hirens bootable disc, also holding XP,Win7, Win8, Vista, Server, WHS, etc installations on it, aswell as other tools such as Backtrak.
Guessing this one is more likely to be bootable than the USB 3.0 one.......so have a 64gb stick that is useless for what I intended it for :( Oh well
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=113677
sadly, as I found out the hard way, the USB 3.0 sticks cannot be made bootable.....which screwed up my plans for a Hirens bootable disc, also holding XP,Win7, Win8, Vista, Server, WHS, etc installations on it, aswell as other tools such as Backtrak.
Guessing this one is more likely to be bootable than the USB 3.0 one.......so have a 64gb stick that is useless for what I intended it for :( Oh well
I've read that booting from USB 3.0 ports doesn't work as most USB 3.0 ports use an NEC controller which doesn't support USB booting, unless there's a legacy option in the BIOS to enable a USB 3.0 port to act as USB 2.0 for boot purposes. Are you also saying that USB 3.0 devices can't be made bootable? Or have you only tried booting using a USB 3.0 port?
I've been trying to boot with both usb 2.0 ports mostly, on laptops and suchlike.....whereas all my other sticks are working fine in the same ports. I've quadruple checked my steps etc to make sure I was doing it right, doing the exact same on other sticks that I know work etc, and with different 'methods' of making them bootable etc....but to no joy
Someone else on another thread is claiming that their same 7dayshop 3.0 usb stick is bootable (only 1 person though that I know of).......so this suggests that theres different batches of them.....some bootable, some not....I've seen this when trying to find the solution on some other usb sticks. Sadly, looks like it may be luck of the draw to whether the stick you receive will be bootable. Can't see any unique marks to identify what model revision I have or anything like that.
Sods law, that the vast majority who'll use them for storage will probably have a bootable one, and muggins here that bought it to be used as a bootable device specifically left out :(