Flash Drive News

One of the fun activities we get to participate in about once per month at CFgear is quality testing. We bring in drives from varied sources including vendors, major retailers, online e-commerce sites and nearly anyone we can find who is in the business of marketing flash drives. We buy across all price points, types and shapes, including custom flash drives.

In June we focused on custom Class B+C or Tier 2+3 flash drives and compared them with what we offer. We run tests on speed, durability and data retention. Although we can’t do cool time elapsed videos, we do our best to simulate both drives in our duplication racks to keep the testing equal. We’ll detail what we found in a later discussion, but felt it was important to first discuss the different classes or categories that exist for flash drives so here is a basic breakdown. continue

Thanks to the escalated demand by Apple for more flash memory chips, there is a serious shortage of availability for the memory chips also used in manufacturing flash drives. With decreased availability comes an increase in prices charged by overseas factories for the core parts used in making USB flash drives. continue