What is the difference between thumb drives?

timberwolfblues · Rated R Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Indiana

Just a general question. What is the difference between all the different types of thumbdrives besides being made by a well know company and memory size? Are some better then others? Confused

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

Speed and size. USB2 is faster. Size is obvious. They're all mostly the same imho.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:36:19 Post Subject:

They are all very similar... Some get minimal boosts in performance from different quality components / layouts, but the technology is pretty much all the same.

Just look for USB 2.0 support... something where the body is connected to the keyring (not the cap)... or better yet something with a retractable / attached cap. There are so many brands it is hard to say to look for certain ones, so just look for a good deal.

timberwolfblues · Rated R Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Indiana

Thanks guys.

Evil_spork · Rated R Joined: 29 Aug 2003 Posts: 65

differance... looks. as long as its the same size and both USB2.0 youll never see a differance.

if that potential 1 second extra transfer time to fill the stick bothers you, you have some bigger problems than flash memory.

swank1 · Rated PG-13 Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 40

one thing is if they are bootable or not- not all are! this is not a big deal for most users, but i have had trouble booting off of certain models... if you are not a Linux guy or you don't do much OS work, this probably won't matter to you