[NTLUG:Discuss] USB Flash drive recommendations?

[Daniel Hauck]

Patrick R. Michaud さんは書きました:
> I'm looking for recommendations for a good USB flash drive.
> Yes, I know that USB flash drives are now commodity items
> and one can get them from basically any corner store, but
> I'm looking for some specific features:
> 
>   - I'd like to be able to keep it on my keyring
>   - at least 4GB capacity,  8GB (or more) would be better
>   - I don't want to have a cover that is easily lost
>     (or worse, the cover attach to the keyring such
>     that the usb drive is easily lost).
>   - No bizarre Windows drivers permanently stored as
>     part of the device (e.g., the SanDisk "Cruiser")
> 
> Any recommendations or suggestions from the group?  Thanks!
> 
> Pm

Well, this isn't much of a recommendation, but I can say that buying
'commodity' USB drives in bulk will reveal some quality control
problems.  Recently my company acquired a couple hundred drives from a
business that sells them.  They were supposed to be 1GB in size, and
they were essentially that size... but there were variations in the
reported capacity by several kilobytes... some were 0.9GB, others were
1.1GB, some in between.  With such lax standards, I felt that the drives
were rejects from higher quality manufacturers.

So if quality standards are important to you, I would avoid those types
of sellers.