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Are there differences in reliability between thumb drives? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by bleistift2@feddit.de to c/hardware@lemmy.ml

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I lost my flash drive and need a new one. Transfer speeds don’t matter too much. I will mainly use it to create bootable media and to transfer a few files between computers and/or phones (no cloud storage for me).

Now I’m questioning whether I should get the cheapest drive I can find or if there really is a difference in quality between €8 and €30. What experience did you make?

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[–] Notnotmike@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Definitely no expert on USB drives, but I do not belive that there is much regulation around USB drives, and I've purchased drives that claim to have super large capacities only to discover they actually don't. There are methods of having the USB report a larger capacity to the OS than actually exists on the drive. Whether or not that's still the case I don't know but it's something to be aware of

I'd aim for mid range if I were you. Not too cheap, but not too expensive.