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neilv 4y ago
When I was learning photojournalism, I loved B&H service and prices so much. I've recently started adding B&H to where I shop for electronics, alongside Amazon and a local brick&mortar (Microcenter). I no longer check Newegg much, though recently they did have the best price on a particular 1U chassis that I wanted. I'd welcome more direct-to-consumer sales from the brands themselves. I hate buying USB or SD flash devices, because of all the counterfeits of brand names, and I'll never buy one of those spammy-semirandom-named products.
- noncoml 4y ago
  Probably you know that already but you can buy Sandisk SDs straight from the Western Digital website (they bought Sandisk sometime back). Tried them a couple of times and delivery was prompt and free! Highly recommend it.
  - neilv 4y ago
    Thanks! I will absolutely try this! I did have a poor experience recently with what I thought was D2C with another quality brand name. I thought I was buying server RAM from Micron (not marketplace), but shipping info looked like it might've been "some random guy's kitchen table moonlighting business", and they actually shipped non-ECC initially, even though the order was for ECC compatible with a particular mobo model. I hope Sandisk/WD does D2C better.
    - fmajid 4y ago
      They also have great deals on Black Friday.
- themadturk 4y ago
  I took a chance a couple of years ago and got a 500GB dual USB-A/C flash drive with the brand name "Thalar" from Amazon. It's not fast, but it has been utterly reliable. But you never know -- some brands just seem fishier than others.
JamesAdir 4y ago
+1 for B&H for top notch service and super helpful staff both online and onsite.
- fmajid 4y ago
  Also their search doesn’t consider my search keywords as mere suggestions to be ignored (e.g. returning flash drives of all random sizes if you search for “usb flash drive 128gb”), and in many categories they have specific filtering dimensions, e.g. for flash drive they will have one filtering dimension that is USB-C vs USB-A vs Lightning. Amazon’s UI is complete garbage in comparison

When I was learning photojournalism, I loved B&H service and prices so much. I've recently started adding B&H to where I shop for electronics, alongside Amazon and a local brick&mortar (Microcenter). I no longer check Newegg much, though recently they did have the best price on a particular 1U chassis that I wanted. I'd welcome more direct-to-consumer sales from the brands themselves. I hate buying USB or SD flash devices, because of all the counterfeits of brand names, and I'll never buy one of those spammy-semirandom-named products.

noncoml 4y ago
Probably you know that already but you can buy Sandisk SDs straight from the Western Digital website (they bought Sandisk sometime back). Tried them a couple of times and delivery was prompt and free! Highly recommend it.
- neilv 4y ago
  Thanks! I will absolutely try this! I did have a poor experience recently with what I thought was D2C with another quality brand name. I thought I was buying server RAM from Micron (not marketplace), but shipping info looked like it might've been "some random guy's kitchen table moonlighting business", and they actually shipped non-ECC initially, even though the order was for ECC compatible with a particular mobo model. I hope Sandisk/WD does D2C better.
  - fmajid 4y ago
    They also have great deals on Black Friday.
themadturk 4y ago
I took a chance a couple of years ago and got a 500GB dual USB-A/C flash drive with the brand name "Thalar" from Amazon. It's not fast, but it has been utterly reliable. But you never know -- some brands just seem fishier than others.

JamesAdir 4y ago

+1 for B&H for top notch service and super helpful staff both online and onsite.

fmajid 4y ago
Also their search doesn’t consider my search keywords as mere suggestions to be ignored (e.g. returning flash drives of all random sizes if you search for “usb flash drive 128gb”), and in many categories they have specific filtering dimensions, e.g. for flash drive they will have one filtering dimension that is USB-C vs USB-A vs Lightning. Amazon’s UI is complete garbage in comparison