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.

Note: All reviews are submitted by outside sources so we at NCI are not responsible for the content (although we try to weed out irrelevant information) and no information here is explicitly intended to be an endorsement or discouragement toward any product or vendor. We recommend using this as one of many factors in making purchasing decisions. The views expressed here may not reflect the results you will experience with the same drives or manufacturer. If you wish to contribute a USB Flash Drive Review we encourage you to do so.

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