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Wal*Mart sells 16GB flash products for $4.99. Company margins need to be padded somewhere?

• ropiku 11y ago
  Still it's not at the iPhone speed, 6S uses fast NVME flash. Definitely not 100$ but not comparable with an microSD card either.
  • mbeattie 11y ago
    So, apple should add an sd card slot?
    • Splines 11y ago
      That I think is a usability, logistiscs, and technical rabbit hole that Apple doesn't want to go down. (See Android and Windows Phone).
• PhantomGremlin 11y ago
  You get what you pay for. A while ago I bought a Sandisk 64 GB USB flash at Costco on clearance for what I thought was a good price. I wanted to use it to back up a laptop on which I don't have too many files, so 64 GB was just right. Big mistake! Huge! I formatted the flash and started backup and it was pathetic. A MB per second write speed. If that. I gave up after a few hours. I went back to my tiny Apricorn backup drive, which I love, and which uses a 1.8" hard drive internally. Zoom. Easily 10x faster than that Sandisk flash. As I said, you get what you pay for.
  • cellularmitosis 11y ago
    Indeed, you have to look hard to find a flash drive with better than 2MB/s write speed: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/usb-3.0-thumb-drive-review,3477-4.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/usb-3.0-thumb-drive-revi...