16GB flash Drives,recommendations requested please.

[Barbara348]

Hi, I need to copy all my doc/pics etc onto a Flash Drive, prior to PC having to go into Workshop next week.

I have a couple of 8GB drives I could use but I've been looking on Amazon for a suitable 16GB Flash Drive but there are so many that it's pretty difficult to choose.

Can anyone recommend from their own experience, a safe,fast & reliable 16GB Flash Drive please?

Thanks

Barbara

[Pinetree]

Hi Barbara,

I got a HP 16GB one half price at WH Smiths a few weeks ago and that has been very good.

Pinetree

[radstockjeff]

I got mine from Maplins  - Intenso 16gb. about £8  No problems with them.

radstockjeff

[Barbara348]

Hi Pinetree,

Thanks very much for the tip, I'll bear that in mind.

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Hi radstockjeff,

Glad to hear you had a good buy with the Intenso 16gb.

Unfortunately, a few weeks ago I bought an Intenso 64GB for £19 from Maplins online which turned out to be a bit of a disaster.

It was unbelievably slow copying my stuff, very disappointing and just to add to it, I connected it to my PC a few weeks later to check the data only to have a message appear saying 'unable to open, file corrupted'

Maybe I just got a Rogue.

Hence me not wanting (and can't afford) to make any more mistakes !!

Cheers

Barbara.

[Hercule Poirot]

You won't go far wrong than the Sandisk Cruzer 16gb usb sticks on Amazon now only £6.91

[suein10b]

We always buy from 7dayshop.com

Usually buy there own brand  7dayshop or Dane-Elec
Postage is very swift

[Calverley Lad]

I use Lexar jumpdrive flash drives, but be aware some drives are cheap and slow.
So in reality you get what you pay for.
 Brian

[Ruskie]

Get two (different brands) and save on both, just in case.

[gaffy]

I guess that I must have 5 - 10 memory sticks around me (somewhere!) which have been used like workhorses over the years,  utterly faithful, maybe I've been lucky - one of them was even an unbranded freebie that I got at a trade fair! 

Anyway, I've got a SanDisk Cruzer 16Mb - possibly the same one Hercule Poirot mentioned - and it's been fine.  Got it from Argos for about a tenner from memory, so if you see it on Amazon at £6.91 as Hercule Poirot says, I would definitely consider it.

What I would say is that I have always put my memory sticks through their paces for a few months (eg. on rudimentary transfers between machines) before 'trusting' them for more critical jobs.

And the way prices are going, you could buy 2 and double up...