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Post by mermaid56 on Sept 18, 2006 7:00:23 GMT 7
Hi, I haven't bought one (having determined it may be good to join the 21st century) but I would like to. ANy recommendations, brands, etc. How much should one cost, say 1 gig, or maybe 2 gig. Any advice or illucidations welcome. I'm in Guangzhou.
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Post by Non-Dave on Sept 18, 2006 8:34:06 GMT 7
What are you going to use it for?
I think bigger is always better (but then I am a guy) especially if you are using it for photo's and music or class resources.
I use my 256Meg USB alot. Easy to carry in a pocket with lesson plans, powerpoint presentations and stuff for classes. I go to lots of different companies to teach and most have a good computer/projector system set-up so it's easy to plug in instead of lugging the laptop around. Same with my high school classes.
I use 1 gig SD, Compact Flash and Sony Memory Stick cards for my digital cameras and pocketpc. 1 gig is okay, but 2 gig is better. I'm not sure of the exact prices, but I bought a 1 gig Kingston SD card a few months ago for about 80RMB.
Another good option is a poratable mini hard drive - a laptop hardrive in a metal case with a USB connection. That can give you 40-100 gigs and is almost as easy to carry around. About 450-550 RMB for the drive and the case is a pretty good price I think.
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Post by Lotus Eater on Sept 18, 2006 9:44:56 GMT 7
I have a 256 flash disk that I use for classes, and a 80G external drive I use for videos, music etc.
Realised that I had exited before finishing. The flashdisk is a Newman - been really good. The external drive is is Hot-life exterior (who could resist?) and I think Sony innards. Partitioned it into 2x40. Works well.
Can't remember prices but I thought they were pretty cheap at the time.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Sept 18, 2006 17:05:41 GMT 7
These things are great!
I bought a 256M stick a while back so I could carry my book documents to the print shop...paid 100 RMB in Auchan for this. I thought I was right downtown with that size, but they're now going well into the gigabytes. I have a LOT of digitized CDs...my former boss came by last weekend and scooped fully half of them onto his memory stick and still had room to spare.
I don't think brand means much for these...the guts are all made by one of a very few companies anyway. If you're really critical about it, there is a difference depending on which logic gate they use to build the flash memory. One kind reads fast and erases slow; the other kind reverses this.
External (portable) hard drives are getting cool, too. My 40G drive was about 480 RMB (including case, cables, driver disk for non-XP systems, and carry case) from the shop that built my computer. They do seem a bit more fragile, though...my first one ran for about an hour and died; had to make them exchange it. Mine has Hitachi guts and seems good. I'm hearing bad reviews of some Seagate drives; they seem to have trouble getting enough power from 2 USB ports.
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Post by Eagle's Nest on Sept 21, 2006 13:00:59 GMT 7
I have a 512 MB SD Titanium Cruzer flash drive that takes care of all of my needs for files and presentations. For the camera, it's a 1gig Sony Pro-Duo memory card. Still haven't got into external hard drives yet. But then again, I've only been here 4 weeks and have yet to have enough time to find it all. I love my toys.
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