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Review on VICFUN 10Pcs 2GB USB Flash Drives 2GB USB Thumb Drive 10 Bulk Deal -Yellow by Damian Toupal

Revainrating 2 out of 5

They will work but you get what you pay for.

I'll start with what I bought for the price. It took me 50 CDs to distribute photos from the soccer season to the kids on the team. It was the best price I could find. I saved about 0.50 per unit compared to the cheapest name brand drives. At the same time, you get what you pay for. These types of flash drives are usually sold to advertising companies where the customer buys over 1,000 at a time and prints or engraves them as giveaways. So speed, quality and reliability are less important than price. Of the 50 units purchased, 2 were sold. 4 more errors after first boot normally, but on subsequent overwrite. I expect more will fail once all the kids take them home and try to use them. Based on just 6 not being able to give out, I've already lost more than half of the savings I got from branded store. But the real disappointment with these devices was the write speeds that I saw when trying to write on them. I wrote 3GB of data to each of these disks. I've seen write speeds as low as 100KB/s, or 40 minutes per disk! Others wrote at speeds of up to 2MB/s, but there was no rhyme or reason as to how each of them would work. I was fortunate to have access to several high quality PCs that could write these recordings and I was able to store 4 discs on the recording device. I was able to achieve my goal, but will choose a more expensive brand in the future. hard drives. With a 12% failure rate and slow write speeds, the degradation wasn't worth the savings.

Pros
  • Best in its niche
Cons
  • It's hard to remember but it was