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Hey there,

 

I need some suggestions for some great USB drives. I have plenty 4Gig drives of different brands and speeds but I have a problem, I need more than 4 gigs.

 

I am looking for probably three 8Gig and three 16-32Gig USB flash drives.

I need them to be USB 3.0 flash drives that are reliable(won't corrupt easily and have good build quality) and have great read and write speeds but aren't really darn expensive. 

 

The 8Gig drives will most likely be used as operating boot drives for Windows 10, Mac OSX..

The 16-32Gig drives will be more general: music transfers, pictures, documents, small games or programs..

 

So hit me. What are some good 8-32Gig flash drives that have solid build quality and good read/write and aren't darn expensive? 

(I normally wouldn't mind an expensive flash drive or two but since I'm getting at least 6 all at once, that will stack the price..)

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I have a kingston data traveler 3 for 10$ . 8gb. 

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Kingston Digital DataTraveler SE9 G2 USB 3.0 Flash Drive

 

I own several of them (bought on US Amazon site). For the $ and the form factor (very convenient to put on keyring) they are fantastic. Very reasonable prices and comes in 8, 16, 32 and 64GB.

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Thanks, looking into these possibilities!

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Adata 8gb usb 3.0 at staples

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Report back when you decide and let us know what you think of them. Always great to get reviews of handy things like flash drives.

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