Peripherals Cheap flash drives from China for installing Windows?

+1 for the transcend drive, I've got that and the Corsair flash voyager (won it at the bit-tech pub quiz), and the Transcend seems to be better as the Corsiar has failed and won't work any more.

 

The Transcend 350 apparently has a read speed of 15 MB/s and a write speed of 7 MB/s. Not sure if that's decent, but I really wouldn't mind waiting even if it took a few hours.

 

These speed are horrible. Get something with at least ~25MB/s read and ~25MB/s write.
For example, the Patriot Rage XT. It's only a few bucks. Yes it's more than what you are looking for in term of price... but it's only a few bucks more (at least in Canada).

 

Based on a post further up I've grabbed a Transcend 700 16GB for £9, I've needed a new flash drive for a while and a Crystalmark shot of it pulling 65+MB/s was enough to convince me.

 

Oh well, too late now As long as it can install Windows, I'm not too worried.

 

That may work for new ones, but somewhere, all the old, unloved ones must go