Those are very good reasons for liking them.

Last semester in college I made the mistake of buying a 2GB PQI flash drive from the bookstore. That was the biggest piece of junk I have ever seen as far as flash drives go. I'll admit that I'm not really up to date on storage technology, but I have found my Kingston flash drives to be very durable and reliable. I have three 1GB drives and a 4GB. Two of the 1GB drives are about three years old, and have gone through the washing machine a couple times, yet still work perfectly. The 4GB one I got yesterday was $10 at Big Lots, about half the price of the PQI one that I bought. The 1GB ones were a little cheaper, but they are all at least 2 years old.

Sorry for some typos... Instead of "3-4 warranty" read "3-4 year warranty" which, decently, must be automatically included with any product, and we consumers have to buy 5-10 year ones

When you finish your holly war with NVIDIA, I'd really like you to look at all these flash crap producers. Those really deserve not only bashing, they deserve decent class action. Of course almost no one of us buy 3-4 warranty for them as oppose to, say, NVIDIA cards, laptops or desktops where NVIDIA/ATI cards are installed. So, for example, in 8-10 years I bought 20-30 flash cards and ALL OF THEM excluding 1 or 2 died pretty fast! It was a total lie about their reliable life span, they wear off in just several times of read/writes. Things do not improve with time at all and present flashes most probably will die in several months to one year too after *just several uses* making poducers huge profits since we will quicker go and get new ones. Make a calculation: in a decade this was approximately $1000 totally wasted, more than 2-4 NVIDIA cards (so far none of them ever died in my case, BTW, but one ATI card. I am not a hater of any videocard producer, BTW. And the only I hate with NVIDIA is its always installed nvsvc32 which makes video to hiccup. And kind of bad driver for my HDTV but this is rear TV brand and undocumented connection so this is excusable).

The next decent target is harddrive crapmakers. Again 10-15 harddrives are dead after 1-2 years of work in 8-10 years. And how many of our days totally lost for reinstallations and upgrades? This started approximately in year 2000-2001 when all producers decreased disk warranties to one year.

Third target - motherboard crappy producers. Those die in 3-4 years with 30-40% probability. Where are those 10-25 years warranties like Japanese TVs and cars decades ago had? Only Intel/AMD processors are really as good probably if not overclock them.
This pipe of crappy trash will account for hundreds of billion of dollars in future trade deficit we can not afford to lose anymore.

Anyway, all these cases are good discovery for a good journalist.

A Charlie article about something not nVidia. To read the comments on teh Charlie Vs. nVidia articles, you'd think he never wrote about anything else. Hmm, maybe an example for the rubes to look over? Nice article, BTW.

Those are some of worst flash memory rates ever, congrats. Now about Rhys Millen.
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"Memory stick" is a trademark of Sony, referring specifically to their flash memory card format.

The products you're describing here are "flash memory cards" and "flash drives".

Have you thought about reviewing some ssd express cards? Are there any out there with decent read & write speeds?

Have you thought about reviewing some ssd express cards? Are there any out there with decent read & write speeds?