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Originally Posted by feelgood
Relating to the Thumb Drive question, I was looking them up at the local tech store's website (Futureshop and Bestbuy) and I noticed that the 2.2 GB product is more or less the same price as the 1 GB products, what's up with that??
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The Hyundai drive is a miniature hard drive, not a flash device. I just checked that page and the price is down to $59. I still wouldn't buy it.
You're right though, 2GB flash drives are ~$100. Staples has had the 2GB Sandisk cruzer at ~$95 for the past month. Everyone's moving to 16Gb components which forces price downward. 32Gb are right behind. It's an old effect, but we're in the sweet spot with flash. I wouldn't want to be juggling big inventories of the stuff.
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