# $20 shipped for a 16GB flash drive
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/20-shipped-for-a-16gb-flash-drive/58354
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [November 18, 2008, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/20-shipped-for-a-16gb-flash-drive/58354 "2008-11-18T09:38:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@JCuz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JCuz)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2008, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/20-shipped-for-a-16gb-flash-drive/58354/1 "2008-11-18T09:38:10Z")
[http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233042&nm\_mc=EMC-IGNEFL111808&cm\_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL111808-](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233042&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL111808&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL111808-)_-USBFlashDrives-_-L0A-\_-20233042
not bad at all, that is a ton of space for a flash drive, i am still using 1 gb ones, plus this one is “Water and shock resistant”
even those black friday deals were only 8gb for $20 and you don’t have to wait in the cold
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### Author:  [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2008, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/20-shipped-for-a-16gb-flash-drive/58354/2 "2008-11-18T09:41:05Z")
Quite large and ugly.
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### Author:  [@Djs87](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Djs87)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2008, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/20-shipped-for-a-16gb-flash-drive/58354/3 "2008-11-18T09:43:57Z")
a good deal, but you still gotta wait forever for a $20 rebate. Sucks.
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### Author:  [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2008, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/20-shipped-for-a-16gb-flash-drive/58354/4 "2008-11-18T09:46:23Z")
Rebates from newegg I’ve always gotten in 2-3 weeks never a terrible turn around.
I just couldn’t handle carrying that on my keychain, the ones I use now are large enough and they are like half that.
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### Author:  [@Djs87](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Djs87)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2008, 9:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/20-shipped-for-a-16gb-flash-drive/58354/5 "2008-11-18T09:47:33Z")
my last corsair rebate for ram on newegg took a solid 2 months. I had forgotten about it by the time it arrived.
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### Author:  [@JCuz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JCuz)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2008, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/20-shipped-for-a-16gb-flash-drive/58354/6 "2008-11-18T10:01:46Z")
my corsair ram rebate took about a month while my western digital hdd rebate took over 2 months the last time i bought shit. most black friday/cyber monday deals will involve rebates.
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### Author:  [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2008, 10:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/20-shipped-for-a-16gb-flash-drive/58354/7 "2008-11-18T10:11:15Z")
damn, i just spent $13 on a 1 gig one, i only really need it for school papers. It should be enough right?
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### Author:  [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2008, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/20-shipped-for-a-16gb-flash-drive/58354/8 "2008-11-18T10:12:16Z")
> [@travisn](#):
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> damn, i just spent $13 on a 1 gig one, i only really need it for school papers. It should be enough right?
Yes one gig will suffice for text documents.
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### Author:  [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/20-shipped-for-a-16gb-flash-drive/58354/9 "2008-11-18T14:18:05Z")
Thats a decent drive for the price, but most 16gb ones are insanely slow. No point in having 16gb of patheticly slow storage. The patriot xporter xt 16 and 32gb drives are about as fast as you can get on usb 2.0, and theyre very cheap as well.
But they all have that damn cap over the usb port that you loose right away.