HOT: 16GB BusLink USB flash drive @ CompUSA ( 2 Views )

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That's right, you read it right. CompUSA now has these 16GB behemoths in stock a for a low, low $1,423.99! Get yours today before they're gone!

http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...421&pfp=BROWSE

(abdurrahman vahit, Barbados)

wow, thats one expensive little device. i will take my usb 80gb 2.5" HD for $75 over that any day ;)

(salim, Togo)

[H]ot Deal!

(emin, Tuvalu)

Thanks Op! I'm in for 5. ;)

(baris, Saint Pierre and Miquelon)

I can't wait 'til EBay gets flooded with these for the bargain price of $1,200. :p

(Aslan, Cocos (Keeling) Islands)

Fry's has Patriot 1GB USB flash drives for $29.99 OTD.

2GB flash drives go for $50 on sale. Why can't a 16GB flash drive cost less than $500?

(burcu, Romania)

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Originally Posted by Oh4Sh0

Thanks Op! I'm in for 5. ;)

I'm going to mortgage my condo and buy 10!

(oðuzhan, China)

Do you think this is a price mistake? Or is it really that expensive?

Sad thing, they probably only cost no more than a few dollars to make. Even if you figured in the R&D... They still aren't worth that much.

(unal , San Marino)

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Originally Posted by pxc

Fry's has Patriot 1GB USB flash drives for $29.99 OTD.

2GB flash drives go for $50 on sale. Why can't a 16GB flash drive cost less than $500?

Because the 16GB drive is not much bigger than the 2GB drive. IT costs more money to cram data into smaller spaces. If you'd like a 16GB flash drive that's a stack of 8 flash drives put together, then you might as well get a portable hard drive lol.

(ahmet, Somalia)

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Originally Posted by lizzardfire

:p

If you look in a transparent flash drive (or with a window like PNY drives), you can see that the flash memory chip is small. The PCB it's on is mostly empty for a drive the size of the buslink one. The Buslink 16GB-64GB models are pretty thick, probably because it uses 2 double sided circuit boards (or 4 single sided ones) with 4 or 8 flash chips inside. It's shouldn't cost an extra $1000 for that.

I don't need 16GB, but a reasonably priced 16GB drive would push down 8GB and 4GB prices.

(burcu, Lebanon)

4x the price of a 4GB flash chip, $10 for the circuit boards and assembly, plus some profit, plus some gauging, plus some R&D costs...

(fatos, Guatemala)

buys 3

3 years later...

dambit only 16 gb on these stupid things... and they only run at usb 2.0 gawd they arent worth keeping.

runs down to the dollar store to pick up a 60 gb flash drive running on usb 9.2...

(gözde, Greenland)

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Originally Posted by Spike..

runs down to the dollar store to pick up a 60 gb flash drive running on usb 9.2...

USB 9.2?! Preposterous!

And on the "wtf that's so expensive" front. I can get a 4GB microdrive for ~$100, or a 4GB 3.5" PATA drive for $5. Is "you pay for the size" so hard to grasp?

(mustafa, Antigua and Barbuda)

can also buy 8G for $203

((-_-) DÝLEK (-_-), Swaziland)

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Originally Posted by Robstar

can also buy 8G for $203

Cool. And even writing 8 GB at a max of 11 MB/s wouldn't take too long. The theoretical best time would be a little over 12 min., which is only a little longer than a 4.7 GB (single-layer) DVD would take to burn. :)

(metin, Seychelles)

I'm afraid of no-name brand storage media.

(gülçin, Nauru)

BusLink is hardly considered a "no-name brand." ;)

(dgfdfdfvbgdf, India)

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Originally Posted by S_G

I'm afraid of no-name brand storage media.

why? Its all the same chips.

(onur, Tanzania, United Republic of)

solid state is damn expensive

(Ayþe, Palestinian Territory, Occupied)

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Originally Posted by v3rt1g0

USB 9.2?! Preposterous!

And on the "wtf that's so expensive" front. I can get a 4GB microdrive for ~$100, or a 4GB 3.5" PATA drive for $5. Is "you pay for the size" so hard to grasp?

Pay for size and no moving parts ;).

(yusuf, Niger)

Fry's has Corsair 4GB USB flash drives for $99AR this week. Even without the $20 rebate, that's just $480 + tax out the door for 16GB of USB flash storage (~$499 after tax and one $20 rebate in my area).

:woowoo: 4 x 19MB/s (R) and 13MB/s (W) drives in RAID0. :p That would be pretty competitive with 7200RPM SATA-150 hard drives at only 100x the price per GB (~$31/GB vs $0.30/GB... BTW Maxtor 300GB SATA drives are $99.99 at Fry's this weekend).

(bahar, Guyana)

Why not just get an 80 gig laptop hard drive and an enclosure? I could buy a whole new desktop for that amount of storage, no thanks

(ozge, Israel)

I was half-expecting to see a solid-gold USB thumb drive encrusted with diamonds, now im dissapointed.

(zubeyr, Iran, Islamic Republic of)

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Originally Posted by vbrtrmn

I'm going to mortgage my condo and buy 10!

I am going to sell my left nut for 11.

(xXxXx, Equatorial Guinea)

im gonna sell your right nut then lol

(yasemin, Colombia)

Free shipping cinches the deal.

(ali ahmet, Chad)

For that price, does it jump out of your pocket before it gets accidentally tossed into the washing machine. You would think for close to $1500, they could engineer a little self preservation into the damn things :D

(garipgezer, Bermuda)

ah, nothing like spending 1500 on something that you will inevitably lose or get stolen from you. All I can hope for is that some guy next to me on the metro buys one :rolleyes:

(seda, Cameroon)

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Originally Posted by Least

ah, nothing like spending 1500 on something that you will inevitably lose or get stolen from you. All I can hope for is that some guy next to me on the metro buys one :rolleyes:

Jewelry, such as wedding rings are typically worth (a lot) more and are just as easy to lose or have stolen. :eek:

(recep, Benin)

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Originally Posted by beowulf7

Jewelry, such as wedding rings are typically worth (a lot) more and are just as easy to lose or have stolen. :eek:

except meant for something important - like a wedding

whats sad is a couple people here would gladly offer this instead of a ring to their girl

(ibrahim, Kenya)

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Originally Posted by whiteboy

except meant for something important - like a wedding

whats sad is a couple people here would gladly offer this instead of a ring to their girl

A girl who would rather take a super duper USB drive over a wedding ring is a keeper in my book. ;)

(Furkan, French Southern Territories)

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Originally Posted by beowulf7

Jewelry, such as wedding rings are typically worth (a lot) more and are just as easy to lose or have stolen. :eek:

True, but I have no use for a wedding ring.

(yalýn, Rwanda)

i want to put an OS on it.

(vedat, Guinea)

lol it's sold out...

I was expecting some lance armstrong or some pink thing to be included and some text saying they are doing donations lol.

(king, Finland)

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Originally Posted by hl3395

lol it's sold out...

I was expecting some lance armstrong or some pink thing to be included and some text saying they are doing donations lol.

It's not Monarch *zing* :D

Just kidding, I love Monarch.

(hayat, Armenia)

Lol check out the 64GB Buslink only $4999.... I will take 2 please and sell a kidney.

(hümeyra gül, Cuba)

Only 2800 at tigerdirect

(kamer , Cambodia)

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Originally Posted by PCduster

i want to put an OS on it.

Pfft! I want to put XP Pro and run BF2 off of it. :p

Take Care

(asdqweasd, Sweden)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Least

Only 2800 at tigerdirect

Specifications
Type Flash Drive
Memory Size 64GB
Write Speed 1 MB/s
Size (L x W x H) 25mm x 92mm x 15mm
Security KanguruShield Security Utility

goodluck with that

(selma, Algeria)

Cant go wrong with Corsairs $15 512mb stick
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820233028

(umit, Micronesia, Federated States of)

HOT: 16GB BusLink USB flash drive @ CompUSA ( 2 Views )

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