Originally posted by: Shaka
Originally posted by: oslama
This is on clearence at Office Max B&M. so YMMV
$14 - $10 instant rebate = $4
hmm... is this a pretty good deal? i'm not sure.
Well, it sure beats the 16MB USB flash drive (unsure what brand) selling for a regular retail price of ~$13 at CompUSA as far as cheap USB flash drives go.
The usability of only a 32MB one is another question. I would go so far as to say that with my limited experience with my Lexar 128MB drive ($35 regular price at Walmart), that a 16MB drive is unusable. 32MB might just be on the tiny edge of usable.
Price-wise though, $4 for nearly any size USB flash drive is a steal.
I wonder if you could purchase 4 of the 32MB drives, and a cheap 4-port mini USB 1.1 hub ($5 at Game-Stop), and make a RAID array of USB flash drives.
Still, for the convenience factor, a single 128MB USB drive ($35) would probably beat out 4 32MB USB flash drives and a USB hub ($25 maybe?)
OM also had a Sandisk USB 2.0 128MB flash drive for like $20 after rebate, I think, but that deal is over.
I could see using a 32MB flash drive, as a boot disk on a hard-disk-less network workstation, with a BIOS new enough to be able to boot off of a flash drive. Would probably be slightly cheaper than purchasing a boot EEPROM for a NIC.