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I'm planning on buying a flash drive for school use. I found some pretty cheap 32GB Sandisk Ultra's for around $10. I also found a Sandisk Dual Drive (USB-A and USB-C) 16GB for the same price, 32GB is around $18. My phone is a Moto Z Play, and I thought that the USB-C would be useful if I didn't bring my laptop but wanted to send some files to my classmates.

 

Keep in mind, I'm in high school, and I'm from the Philippines as well, and we don't have large amounts of allowance to buy these things. The cheaper the better, of course without sacrificing on quality. But seeing as these are legit Sandisk ones, I'm not worrying.

 

I'm much not of a hoarder as well. I tend to delete most crap I won't ever need, but I think 16GB will just barely be cutting it.

 

So, should I get the standard 32GB Sandisk Ultra, the 16GB Sandisk Dual, or the 32GB one? I'll be loaning from my mom since I'm broke lol so I don't think she'll be happy with the $18 one.

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5 minutes ago, djdelarosa25 said:

I'm planning on buying a flash drive for school use. I found some pretty cheap 32GB Sandisk Ultra's for around $10. I also found a Sandisk Dual Drive (USB-A and USB-C) 16GB for the same price, 32GB is around $18. My phone is a Moto Z Play, and I thought that the USB-C would be useful if I didn't bring my laptop but wanted to send some files to my classmates.

 

Keep in mind, I'm in high school, and I'm from the Philippines as well, and we don't have large amounts of allowance to buy these things. The cheaper the better, of course without sacrificing on quality. But seeing as these are legit Sandisk ones, I'm not worrying.

 

I'm much not of a hoarder as well. I tend to delete most crap I won't ever need, but I think 16GB will just barely be cutting it.

 

So, should I get the standard 32GB Sandisk Ultra, the 16GB Sandisk Dual, or the 32GB one? I'll be loaning from my mom since I'm broke lol so I don't think she'll be happy with the $18 one.

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4 minutes ago, djdelarosa25 said:

I'm planning on buying a flash drive for school use. I found some pretty cheap 32GB Sandisk Ultra's for around $10. I also found a Sandisk Dual Drive (USB-A and USB-C) 16GB for the same price, 32GB is around $18. My phone is a Moto Z Play, and I thought that the USB-C would be useful if I didn't bring my laptop but wanted to send some files to my classmates.

 

Keep in mind, I'm in high school, and I'm from the Philippines as well, and we don't have large amounts of allowance to buy these things. The cheaper the better, of course without sacrificing on quality. But seeing as these are legit Sandisk ones, I'm not worrying.

 

I'm much not of a hoarder as well. I tend to delete most crap I won't ever need, but I think 16GB will just barely be cutting it.

 

So, should I get the standard 32GB Sandisk Ultra, the 16GB Sandisk Dual, or the 32GB one? I'll be loaning from my mom since I'm broke lol so I don't think she'll be happy with the $18 one.

Honestly, rather then spend what little money you have on a flash drive why not use Google drives free 15GB of storage. Plus, you can't lost your flash drive then.

 

If you do go the flash drive use, please, please remember to back up at least weekly. I lost 3 months of university work by not backing up my pendrive. 

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9 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

Honestly, rather then spend what little money you have on a flash drive why not use Google drives free 15GB of storage. Plus, you can't lost your flash drive then.

 

If you do go the flash drive use, please, please remember to back up at least weekly. I lost 3 months of university work by not backing up my pendrive. 

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you should get the regular one. if you wanted to transfer files to classmates on your phone then you would have to have the files on the phone in the first place. also you could just aatch the files to an email, text message or send a google drive link. you should save the cash

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33 minutes ago, djdelarosa25 said:

I'm planning on buying a flash drive for school use. I found some pretty cheap 32GB Sandisk Ultra's for around $10. I also found a Sandisk Dual Drive (USB-A and USB-C) 16GB for the same price, 32GB is around $18. My phone is a Moto Z Play, and I thought that the USB-C would be useful if I didn't bring my laptop but wanted to send some files to my classmates.

 

Keep in mind, I'm in high school, and I'm from the Philippines as well, and we don't have large amounts of allowance to buy these things. The cheaper the better, of course without sacrificing on quality. But seeing as these are legit Sandisk ones, I'm not worrying.

 

I'm much not of a hoarder as well. I tend to delete most crap I won't ever need, but I think 16GB will just barely be cutting it.

 

So, should I get the standard 32GB Sandisk Ultra, the 16GB Sandisk Dual, or the 32GB one? I'll be loaning from my mom since I'm broke lol so I don't think she'll be happy with the $18 one.

i use one of those tiny transcend one that are waterresitant and dust resitant and just keep it on my keychain.

It was like 15 bucks for a 32gb 3.1 drive

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Just get any drive that's cheap. Usb 3 is practically useless unless you transfer large files, but you might as well since the price difference isn't big. 

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2 hours ago, SlipperyPete said:

you should get the regular one. if you wanted to transfer files to classmates on your phone then you would have to have the files on the phone in the first place. also you could just aatch the files to an email, text message or send a google drive link. you should save the cash

You just transfer the files or copy them to the phone. 

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24 minutes ago, BadluckBrian said:

You just transfer the files or copy them to the phone. 

my point is that there are other ways to transfer between mobile and laptop/desktop, so he can save money and get more storage at little to no compromise 

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