Dane-Elec USB Flash Drive - 16GB, £7.50 delivered by Eshop 365 (Amazon)
Quality memory stick at less than 50p per gigabyte,
Currently £11.69 from 7dayshop
Blurb from the seller:-
- High Speed USB 2 Flash Memory Drive
- Capless design with easy smooth slide action
- Comes fully retail packed and is brand new
- 5 Year Warranty
Blurb from me:-
The Amazon advert states black/copper colour but the pic is black/silver. The 16GB ones are normally black/silver whilst the 32GB ones are black/copper colour.
My experience of these 16GB Dane-Elec drives (branded as Duracell) is very positive. Healthy write speed of 13.0MB/s blows away most of the other big name 'cheapy' ones such as many of the Kingston and HP offerings.
The design is very practical and robust: a nice big keyring/lanyard hole that will not easily wear away; capless means that you won't lose a flimsy little cap that covers the USB connector; the body of the drive slides from left to right to expose/cover the USB connector.
The only downside that I can see to this design is that the USB connector may be susceptible to picking up a bit of fluff if your pockets are prone to storing such filth!
I've ordered 4
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Jump to unread Post a CommentThey're a big player in the memory game. They make memory products (SD cards, USB flash drives etc) for Proctor & Gamble under their Duracell brand. Proctor & Gamble are a huge company: think of brands such as Gillette, Braun, Oral-B, Wella, the list goes on and on. Proctor & Gamble are unlikely to licence their brands to a manufacturer that is not up to the job.
What this means to the consumer is that Dane-Elec produce high quality memory products which, in my experience, exceed the performance of many of the mainstream 'famous' manufacturers' products.
Don't let unfamiliarity with the name Dane-Elec dissuade you from looking into their products or buying them.
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I'm looking at a Transcend which is a bit more expensive at £12.99 but it says Write Speed: 18MB/s, Read Speed: 32MB/s so I think it's worth it.
These are still £7.50 unexpire.
I've asked for this deal to be unexpired.
Out of the 4 I bought I've had 3 very similar performance graphs from HD Tune and one that is noticably crappier.
With the 3 'good' ones I've got a write speed ranging from 0MB/s (YES ZERO!) to 11.9MB/s with an average of 0.8MB/s... surely this prog can't be right?
H2testw reports (on a 1GB test) write 4.17MB/s and read 15.7MB/s.
These figures are nowhere near the good performance I've got from my Duracell 16GB stick (Dane-Elec manufactured: 11.9MB/s write, 17.4MB/s read doing the same test). Have I got 4 from a dodgy batch, counterfeit memory?
Can anyone who has bought these through this deal state what sort of performance they're getting from theirs before I contact the seller with a few harsh words?
If these are as bad as they appear to be (I hope that the seller just lives next door to a nuclear power plant which has corrupted the flash drives) then I may as well retire from posting deals as this would appear to be one almighty bum steer!
Edited By: apeman69 on Mar 10, 2012 02:49