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Behemoth

Memory Stick

My wife wants a 512GB Memory Stick for her PC. How much are these things and where's the best place to get them....or is there nothing in it and PC world as good as anywhere.

Cheers.
jema

Re: Memory Stick

Behemoth wrote:
My wife wants a 512GB Memory Stick for her PC. How much are these things and where's the best place to get them....or is there nothing in it and PC world as good as anywhere.

Cheers.


Definately not one for pc world.

A google search for "cheap memory stick" shows a lot of places.

jema
Behemoth

Are these things also known as flash drives - "memory stick" produces a lot of photography based paraphanalia. Remember, I am an IT idiot.

Thanks. Very Happy
jema

Behemoth wrote:
Are these things also known as flash drives - "memory stick" produces a lot of photography based paraphanalia. Remember, I am an IT idiot.

Thanks. Very Happy


there are a lot of different flahs memory types, used both in PCs and Photography. I confess I am in the dark ages, having got the old smartmedia type on my camara and nothing on the PC's.

So you will need someone more up to date to give advice.

jema
sean

Don't have one, but don't the ads for PC ones usually say USB memory stick, or somesuch?
Behemoth

Think I've found something likely here:

http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=1561&category_id=147&manufacturer_id=0

Cheers
wellington womble

my memory stick (which is a flash drive - I think that might be a brand) came from www.overclockers.co.uk Great fast service, cheaper than the student IT place my mate got hers from. Mines a 1 gig - but I've never filled it - and I carry loads of info round on it (music for listening to at college, and oodles of useless papers and assignments) From memory it was about 70 quid - loads cheaper that PC world was. At 512 meg yours won't cost as much.

I beleive that they are also known as USB drives (as the plug into a USB port) and sometimes pen drives (another brand - not as compact I think) Lots of people at uni have them, but I've never come across anyone who had one cheaper than me. Himself gets all our computer bits from overclocker.
Jonnyboy

Prices have come down, £50 should be your budget for a 512mb memory stick
Behemoth

The one I've seen looks a good price and I can pick it up on the way home. Thanks for your help.

Cheers

R
neilk

I have one from Ebuyer just like this.
£32.75 inc VAT inc Free Shipping.

It's nice and small and has been very reliable so far (6 months or so).

Make sure you buy USB2.0 these days.
Gervase

Try online at dabs.co.uk or scan.co uk, or else try Maplin. Betwen them you should get the best deal.
Treacodactyl

Maplin has a sale on at the moment and if you pick up a catalogue there are vouchers on the back.
Treacodactyl

Maplin: USB 2.0 128MB - £14.99 - £2; 512MB £39.99
Mat S

Re: Memory Stick

Behemoth wrote:
My wife wants a 512GB Memory Stick for her PC.


She'll love you forever if you get her one of the new Apple ipod shuffle things - a memory stick with a music player for about £50. Might be a few weeks before they arrive here though and you'll doubtless have to get along with iTunes.
Silas

7dayshop.com is the place
Behemoth

Being of the age where my interest in persuing new media to play popular music from the hit parade has started to wane, music is not the prime driver. Also I'm sure that it would join the little piles of portable things that she thinks she wants and then the battery runs out, so it would join the walkman, portable CD, minidisc and ibook in the corner. I use her digital radio. Rolling Eyes
Mat S

Fair enough. Not all the music available online is mindless chart pap though - I've got some old AC/DC lined up for download amongst other things. How many bottles of homebrew do you want for the ibook?
wellington womble

Where/how does one download music? I don't mind paying for it if there really isn't any alternative Laughing) But I want more shelves for books!
neilk

If you want cheap (LEGAL Shocked) (well nearly. Read the links) online music, have a look at www.allofmp3.com. Make sure you switch to English, if your cyrillic's not up to much! I've been using it for just over a month, but they've only just doubled their prices to 2 cents a Mb!!!!!! Laughing That means it's over $1 per album! I remember when it was 50p a pint etc....

http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3info.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/05/russian_mp3_site/

(If you're as dubious as I was!)
wellington womble

legalish, then! I can't get onto to the site though - it says no configuration file (or some such IT-ese version of 'no'!) I'll try again later.
neilk

It seemed to pick up a rogue fullstop in the url - try it now.
tahir

I've been using allofmp3 for over a year now, excellent. I also use www.emusic.com which has a lot of stuff from Inependent labels
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