uptou Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 hello people,can anybody recommend a particular make of memory stick that would enable me to download,say maybe 50 odd stock charts onto it at an internet cafe,& then veiw them on my laptop in my apartment.i'm in cambodia so the price could vary,& getting ones "head shaved" for the price can be quite common. I'm hoping i can do this. Also i''m thinking that its only possible to download one page at a time onto the stick??? Thanks for any help. From Mr IT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tariq786 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Kingston is quite good. http://www.kingston.com/flash/datatraveler.asp I bought one 4GB for around 300 Baht from Pantip. You can download multiple pages. I use Opera browser but u can use Firefox and at the time of saving give different file names. Hope this will help u. Have a nice day. Tariq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballzafire Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 (edited) Best reliability: Sandisk When it comes to solid-state storage, it's the only brand I trust. Just read the reviews on Amazon about all the other brands and the failure rates... Edited November 21, 2009 by ballzafire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Best reliability: Sandisk That's also my brand of choice. Just picked up a 32 GByte Sandisk Cruzer model though not cheap at around 3k+ Baht. 25Mbps/18Mbps read/write speeds. I have a 8GB Kingston that was given to me at work and it is fine, just slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyh Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 For what you want a 1 GB would be big enough, so no need to fork out heaps of money for a 32 gb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Mouse Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Just be careful to run your anti-virus software through the memory stick before you use it in your laptop. Internet cafes computers are usually full of viruses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonman Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 I would not be buying Kingston at the moment, the market has been flooded with chinese knock-offs and they are very unreliable. +1 for Sandisk, tis the only brand i will purchase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Just from my experience of memory sticks is that if anything goes wrong , and that is quite possible downloading thru a internet cafe so take percautions and use a virus/trojan checkas a minimum . I have had about 4 memory sticks loose all information thru corrupted files (it seems to take only one file to loose the lot) and once that happens u have to throw them out and, unlike a hard drive, the info is non-retrivable. I am not sure why the files become corrupted and it is not virus related as it is not transfered to my back-up hard drives . I am a neurotic user of back-ups so i have not had serious looses but now i have a couple of portale harddrives that i use for travel /back-up rather than rely on memory sticks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronz28 Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 I have had problems in the past by just pulling the USB memory stick out of some computers when I was finished and sometimes find on another computer that nothing appears to be on the stick. Not always a problem but it depended on the computer being used. So now I always click on the Icon in the system tray to stop the USB device that I am using before removing it and I have no more data losses. I think it depends on the version of the operating system you are using and you may have to install a little program from the Cruizer or from the internet if the system you are using doesn't have a way to stop the USB device before you remove the memory stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steffi Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 For what you want ie. just storage you should be able to find many. My advice is to simply buy more than one instead of putting all your eggs in the one basket. In the US folks swear by Corsair Voyager and Patriot but those are probably overkill for what you're looking for. Best reliability: Sandisk That's also my brand of choice. Just picked up a 32 GByte Sandisk Cruzer model though not cheap at around 3k+ Baht. 25Mbps/18Mbps read/write speeds. I have a 8GB Kingston that was given to me at work and it is fine, just slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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