Morning all,
I am looking at buying a massive 64 or 128GB pen drive to use with my new Nexus 10 tablet to store the bulk of my music, films and bulky files on.
I am just wondering what the differences in reality are between the likes of a Sandisk drive which will cost me over £50 and an eBay one which is about a tenner!
None of the data is critical, and it is purely going to be stored with my iPad in a bag and used every now and then for when I am on a plane or want to watch a film etc.
Cheers
It is a matter of Brand Name vs Brand-X.
SanDisk along with Lexar and similar companies would have spent millions on research, testing the prototypes, improving it, and ensure they made it to higher standards if they can. They sell those at a higher costs to pay off the costs of research and testing. Whereabouts Brand-X stuff just copy Brand Names, buy the parts needed, build it, sell it, and as they did not do any research, they can sell it cheaper, but often as they don't really do research or testing or anything like that, their productions may not be really good. Because of such things like that, Brand Name can be better than Brand-X, but Brand-X can be cheaper than Brand Name. So you end up with the option of good working order or cheap costs.
But buying cheap Brand-X from supermarket would be much better than buying the same cheap Brand-X from eBay because...
There are no surefire way of making sure the Brand Name or Brand-X items from eBay is in good working order as eBay is all about selling used items. Brand Name items could have been used to its limits and got damaged, Brand-X could be doggy goods shipped from somewhere that use sub-standards.
Then there's the matter of who knows if anyone could have re-programed the memory on those cards or USB flash memories, leaving virus and likes, or even as one member above mention, buy really cheaper 4GB, 2GB, or even 1GB memory card or USB drive, hack into it systems and re-program it so it would say 64GB or 128GB, and they also change the outside looks, like putting on a new sticker or reprinting the text on the items.
The different is a matter of...
Chose to spend too much of your money on something in real good working order or risk saving money and hope what you buy is not a lemon.