Grixx USB 2.0 Flash Drive USB Memory Stick - 128GB
£15.99 (Was £28.99 Save £13.00)
Not a fan of the brand but not a bad price for a 128GB Drive.
Specifications:
~ Capacity: 128GB
~ Compatibility: Can be used in devices supporting USB 1.1, 2.0 and USB 3.0 standards
System requirements:
~ USB 1.1 or 2.0 port
~ Windows XP and higher
~ Mac OS 10.1 and higher
~ Linux 2.4.0 and higher Read Speed up to 15MB/s
~ Minimum Write speed 5MB/s
Product Features
~ Incredible value for money - great for work, school, college, university, leisure and more
~ Sleek aluminium housing and LED indication light - stylish and highly functional
~ 128GB - plenty of space for all your important data, photos, video, work and more
~ Plug and play
15 comments
woldranger
22 Apr 16#1
I think that's the cheapest 128gb usb remova
woldranger
22 Apr 16#2
...media (sorry, accidentally hit enter and the app won't let me delete/edit posts) I've seen .I've got the 64gb one and I think I paid about this price for it a few months ago. Must resist as a micro sd (cheapest 128gb I've seen at the mo is £30) would be much more useful...
I do need a couple of small pen drives to use for Windows recovery drives, any suggestions?
They are not the quickest drives to write to but work fine for installing OS's. I keep copies of Windows 7 and 8 on a couple of mine for convenience. I picked mine up in a deal 6 months ago when they were cheaper still so worth waiting for a promotion.
I have this specific drive, it's painfully slow if you regularly have to use it to transfer data. However I use it as a convenient place to store files for long term storage or have easy access to a large range of files for which these are ideal. The drive manages about 1-2megabytes per second for me transferring 90gb of photographs. I don't know how long that transfer actually took as I had it up for about an hour doing things on my server and after that forgot about it for a few days before I came back to remove it but it's certainly not planning on being a speed freak. If you plan to transfer films and other large files then a USB 3 option is probably better. for example something like this;
Fully open to correction but (a) I believe this memory stick gets pretty hot (never a good sign), and (b) mymemory have their own 128GB memory stick for around this price which apparently works very well.
masai to 3guesses
23 Apr 16#6
I have 2 of the usb 3 128gb drives which i use all the time for disk imaging. They too get hot to touch but never had any probs.
Had two 64gb. Both failed within 6" months. Good price but certainly questions on reliability.
otterboxer
23 Apr 16#7
Not good reviews on here. Look at previous grixx posts.
vivski123
23 Apr 161#9
All things considered then, looks ideal for slowly storing data you don't care about.
stevelo1973
23 Apr 16#10
wow, they still make usb 2.0!!!!!!
Jediben
23 Apr 16#11
128gb at usb 2 speed would take you something like 2 hours to perform a full copy to the drive. False economy if you are using it for large file transfers in one go.
chocci to Jediben
24 Apr 16#15
More like 6 hours :confused:
mchcreations
23 Apr 16#12
I recommend spend more and go for the Samsung Fit 128GB USB3.0. It's now at £24.99 http://www.mymemory.co.uk/USB-Flash-Drives/Samsung/Samsung-128GB-USB-3.0-Flash-Drive-FIt---130MB_s
- Better speeds, I got 130 MB/s read and 110 MB/s according to crystaldisk mark (thats like 10times faster, something that takes 1 hours with the Girxx will take 6minutes with Samgsung Fit)
- Good quality, Waterproof, Small (in large ones there is risk of bend/break)
- 5-year warranty
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Opening post
£15.99 (Was £28.99 Save £13.00)
Not a fan of the brand but not a bad price for a 128GB Drive.
Specifications:
~ Capacity: 128GB
~ Compatibility: Can be used in devices supporting USB 1.1, 2.0 and USB 3.0 standards
System requirements:
~ USB 1.1 or 2.0 port
~ Windows XP and higher
~ Mac OS 10.1 and higher
~ Linux 2.4.0 and higher Read Speed up to 15MB/s
~ Minimum Write speed 5MB/s
Product Features
~ Incredible value for money - great for work, school, college, university, leisure and more
~ Sleek aluminium housing and LED indication light - stylish and highly functional
~ 128GB - plenty of space for all your important data, photos, video, work and more
~ Plug and play
15 comments
I do need a couple of small pen drives to use for Windows recovery drives, any suggestions?
They are not the quickest drives to write to but work fine for installing OS's. I keep copies of Windows 7 and 8 on a couple of mine for convenience. I picked mine up in a deal 6 months ago when they were cheaper still so worth waiting for a promotion.
I have this specific drive, it's painfully slow if you regularly have to use it to transfer data. However I use it as a convenient place to store files for long term storage or have easy access to a large range of files for which these are ideal. The drive manages about 1-2megabytes per second for me transferring 90gb of photographs. I don't know how long that transfer actually took as I had it up for about an hour doing things on my server and after that forgot about it for a few days before I came back to remove it but it's certainly not planning on being a speed freak. If you plan to transfer films and other large files then a USB 3 option is probably better. for example something like this;
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/kingston-data-traveler-100-g3-usb-3-0-flash-drive-key-drive-128gb-21-99-was-59-99-2435730
http://www.mymemory.co.uk/USB-Flash-Drives/Samsung/Samsung-128GB-USB-3.0-Flash-Drive-FIt---130MB_s
- Better speeds, I got 130 MB/s read and 110 MB/s according to crystaldisk mark (thats like 10times faster, something that takes 1 hours with the Girxx will take 6minutes with Samgsung Fit)
- Good quality, Waterproof, Small (in large ones there is risk of bend/break)
- 5-year warranty