The Rolling "USB Memory Stick / Dongle" price drop thread

and nobody told us
cos nobody showed us
and now it's up to us babe
i think we can make it

Amazon were doing 4GB sticks for ~£16

So dongle breaking my heart :(

> Yesterday, I see an ad for WHSmiths, they have 1GB memory sticks for £8.50

1G = £2.76 on amazon

first one i bought was, i think 16M for $70. must've fallen out of my pocket within about a month - never saw it again.

first hard disk = 420M for £240 (amiga. i now have an image of this on a cd)

Even that's pretty big for an Amiga, wasn't their first hard disk 20M?

It's the thread that needed to be made.

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yea a friend of mine had an amiga (500 i think) with a 20M. I had a 1200 with an 80M iirc. it's cool that you kept an image of that, koogs.

I've still got my 170Mb Amiga disk. I think it's goosed though, just as I was about to make an image of it too.

I hear that the next gen of iPods is going to have 64 giggles in flash memory, no hard drive.

FLASH!

http://images.c-f-1.com/filestorage/Template_Images_Imported/580/110907_Saverstore.com_n1/top.jpg

do dongles dislike smoke?

Flash either has very small hands or has a huge dongle (oo-er missus).

do dongles dislike smoke?

haha

I just got a USB 1gig for $20!

I hate to be a 'ya shooda' about this, Abbs, but with a little shopping you could probably have gotten a 2 gigglebutt drive for that much - I did. But then I live in one of the most tech-glutted towns in the world.

My dream is to bury a time capsule 1GB flash drive filled with 333 copies of the Happy Hardcore version of the Scottish national anthem in the local park here in Ormskirk.

Which national anthem is that then? Scotland The Brave, Scot's Wha Hae or Flower Of Scotland?

I want to hear it whichever one it is.

there's so much kick drum it's hard to tell.

I don't think flash memory lasts that long

I'm looking for a new broadband package. Since I'm moving house and changing mobile phone I might as well, BT are currently ripping me off. I'll probably go with Orange phone/broadband. But the guy in the shop suggested I consider just going with the phone package, no broadband, and getting a dongle and connecting to the net that way. He said it was 'just as fast as broadband'... but is it really? I can get about 6meg in the area I'm moving to, apparently - can a dongle match that? Anyone get their home internet this way?

http://www.boscovs.com/wcsstore/boscovs/images/store/product/images/26361894230525.jpg

on the thread topic, I got a USB 1gb for $14 canadian.

that Orange solution looks expensive:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-devices/review/2007/11/19/Orange-Option-ICON-2-USB-Modem/p1

But when you start to consider using the Option 2 for more intensive use the tariffs start to look a little meaner. Pay £19.30 per month and all you get is an allowance of 160MB; £33.78 gets you a meagre 318MB and you have to go all the way up to £43.43 for a 1GB allowance. In today's connected world, it's quite easy to download several hundred megabytes in a day, just through general email correspondence and moderate Internet browsing - these prices and allowances are simply not realistic.

To illustrate this, I paid a visit to Gmail, logged in and opened an email containing a link to a friend's Facebook profile. By the time I'd clicked that link and waited for everything to finish downloading - a process that only took a minute or two from start to finish, I'd racked up nearly half a megabyte's worth of download - and that's with the Orange service's image compression working away to reduce page sizes.

And performance, as yet, is far from the broadband-busting speed advertised on the modem's box (if my experience of using the service over several days is anything to go by). Once I'd installed the modem I found I was able to achieve a pretty reliable HSDPA connection in locations in central London and the suburb. In tests in central London and the suburbs, I wasn't even able to breach the 1.8Mbit/sec barrier, with downloads peaking at 1.5Mbit/sec.

Yeah, that's a lot more expensive than they told me in the shop! I was thinking of connection issues, and the above seems to confirm those problems, but looks like price is a problem too.

sorry if this was too off-topic.

be unlimited - just dsl, nothing else, but it's unlimited and either 14 or 18 pounds per month depending on how fast you want it

4G for £12.99 on amazon.co.uk. a Freecom DataBar. there were slightly cheaper models but i liked the way this one looked (ie black & rectangular)

but was trying to price an upgrade to 2x1G of PC2700 ram for my laptop and it was about £100.

8GB, £22, WHSmiths....

That's expensive for an 8GB these days, actually. Can be pretty easily found around $30-ish or less online, even without rebates.

8gb for under £12 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flash-Memory-8GB-USB-DRIVE/dp/B001AEBYO6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1222427069&sr=8-2

"£11.49 + £1.99 shipping"

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/3431730/Play-com-8GB-USB-Flash-Drive/Product.html

Play.com 8GB USB Flash Drive
£9.99 Free Delivery

http://www.dvd.co.uk/Hw/Kingston-DataTraveler-100-USB-flash-drive-16-GB-Hi-Speed-USB-black/DT100_16GB/product.htm?utm_id=NL94&utm_source=NL94&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=NL94

16GB for £16.99 - almost down to £1/GB.