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Flash drives are available from a wide variety of manufacturers at greatly varying prices. Unfortunatley, speed and quality vary greatly as well. Many manufacturers are overseas and require payment in advance - a risky proposition when they rarely provide free samples or references. As a service to our Altec customers, and to anyone else who wants to use it we are offering this simple database of USB Flash Drive Reviews. Speed should be given in Kb/s when writing to 21 drives using an Altec USB Stick Copystation 21 Ultra unless otherwise noted in the remarks. For non-Altec users the speed should be a good relative guage as to how fast each drive writes.
| Manufacturer |
Drive |
Capacity |
Speed |
Rating |
Remarks |
| Biwin Technology Limited |
UDF601 |
512 MB |
1900 Kb/s |
***** |
USBest Controller, Intel/Micro memory. Consistent size, good quality, good purchasing experience |
| Memorex |
TravelDrive |
256 MB |
3500 Kb/s |
***** |
Works great |
| Oriphe Industrial Limited |
USB Flash Drive |
1 GB |
10000 Kb/s |
***** |
Oriphe Industrial Limited is a special manufactoy of all kinds of usb flash drives more than 200 styles. |
| SanDisk |
Cruzer Micro |
1 GB |
3500 Kb/s |
***** |
With Altec duplicators use the non U3 version or remove U3 with U3 removal tool |
| Super Talent |
DG Series |
1 GB |
1500 Kb/s |
* |
Poor quality, inconsistent format size, 30% appeared as "locked" or would not mount, slow writes |
| Yifang Digital |
ED717 |
128 MB |
3500 Kb/s |
***** |
Work great - SMI Controller, Hynix memory chip ... unfortunately company won't respond to e:mails |
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