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(OT) Would you pay $99.99 for a USED 1gb Flash Drive
On 7/06/2017 5:58 PM, wrote:
Am I missing something, (like gold plating) Or do they really think someone is stupid enough to pay $100 for a USED 1gb flash drive? **I don't know anyone dumb enough to pay $100.00 for ANY kind of 1GB flash drive. I would bend down to pick one up. They're now freebie items. OTOH, a 1TB flash drive is a different thing. Easy worth $100.00. Maybe a couple of hundred. 1GB is worth, maybe, $1.00. Tops. -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au |
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(OT) Would you pay $99.99 for a USED 1gb Flash Drive
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Trevor Wilson wrote:
On 7/06/2017 5:58 PM, wrote: Am I missing something, (like gold plating) Or do they really think someone is stupid enough to pay $100 for a USED 1gb flash drive? **I don't know anyone dumb enough to pay $100.00 for ANY kind of 1GB flash drive. I would bend down to pick one up. They're now freebie items. OTOH, a 1TB flash drive is a different thing. Easy worth $100.00. Maybe a couple of hundred. 1GB is worth, maybe, $1.00. Tops. I was wondering if the seller messed up, confusing terms so it's actually a larger capacity drive. I paid ten for my first couple of 1gig flash drives, I forget when, a decade or so ago I'd say. And they had dropped in price by then. Now one can get much greater capacity for the same or less price. I suppose a seller might think in terms of "rarity". I think 1gig drives have disappeared, at least from regular outlets. It seems a waste to use a larger size one for when you only need low capacity, but it's sure not worth paying $100 for it. Maybe the seller thinks there are instances where the larger drive was too large, but while that did happen in the days of hardware hard drives, and I have digital cameras that won't makeuse of larger capacity memory cards, I don't think computers have problems with "too large" flash drives. Michael |
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(OT) Would you pay $99.99 for a USED 1gb Flash Drive
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 13:00:39 -0400, Michael Black wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Trevor Wilson wrote: On 7/06/2017 5:58 PM, wrote: Am I missing something, (like gold plating) Or do they really think someone is stupid enough to pay $100 for a USED 1gb flash drive? **I don't know anyone dumb enough to pay $100.00 for ANY kind of 1GB flash drive. I would bend down to pick one up. They're now freebie items. OTOH, a 1TB flash drive is a different thing. Easy worth $100.00. Maybe a couple of hundred. 1GB is worth, maybe, $1.00. Tops. I was wondering if the seller messed up, confusing terms so it's actually a larger capacity drive. Actually, NO. I have some identical drives and they are 1gb. The reason I was looking at them, is because I want to buy some of them 1gb drives, if they are about $1 or $2 each. The reason is because I made some linux bootable flash drives. I just plug them into the USB and can boot to Linux instead of Windows. I dont generally use Linux, but if Windows wont boot, they are a handy way to retrieve data, and sometimes even fix Windows. For some reason, I can NOT make these bootable drives on any flash drives larger than 2gb. They just dont work.... I paid ten for my first couple of 1gig flash drives, I forget when, a decade or so ago I'd say. And they had dropped in price by then. Now one can get much greater capacity for the same or less price. I paid $150 for a USED 10 mb hard drive in 1990. Thats MEGAbyte, not GIGAbyte. I suppose a seller might think in terms of "rarity". I think 1gig drives have disappeared, at least from regular outlets. It seems a waste to use a larger size one for when you only need low capacity, but it's sure not worth paying $100 for it. Maybe the seller thinks there are instances where the larger drive was too large, but while that did happen in the days of hardware hard drives, and I have digital cameras that won't makeuse of larger capacity memory cards, I don't think computers have problems with "too large" flash drives. Michael Yep, some older digital cameras wont take cards larger than a specific size. I have an older Canon, and I cant use cards larger than 16gb. Then again, I see no reason to use a larger card. I can get many thousands of photos on a 16gb card. I doubt I take over 1000 photos in a full year, and I dump photos to my computer at least once every 3 months. Anyhow, in the case of *bootable* flash drives, it appears that computers DO have problems with "too large" flash drives. BTW, I dont believe they make a 1tb (TERAbyte) flash drive. The largest I have ever seen in the stores and on ebay is 128gb. I do recall hearing they make or are working on a 256gb flash drive. If you want to talk about portable USB hard drives, yea, they go as high as 2tb, maybe higher, but not flash drives. But if someone knows of a 1tb flash drive, post the URL..... |
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