sdc100 wrote:I was gonna say something nasty about Sarah Palin but I'll just give a straight answer: Woot only ships to the Continental US. It doesn't ship to Hawaii, Alaska, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, etc.

NOPE
no


it IS partially because of Palin, i am certain


if these woot items ever got into her hands
could you imagine the damage it could do

another tv show about technology and its applications or other uses for pieces of technology misunderstood by simple minds


could be verrry dangerous

If I really need a 32 gb Flash Drive, I absolutely prefer Kingston 32 GB Flash Drive.

As it is 50% off now.

Gatzby wrote:We don't support analog data connections.

so people with dialup cant woot off how sad

mue8816327 wrote:so people with dialup cant woot off how sad

I'd feel really bad for anyone who tried to do a woot off on dial-up.... That would just be one long steam of good prices youd never have a chance to order

allenallen wrote:why do the alaskans NEVER woot? ANSWER ME!!!!

From the FAQ:

"Why isn't my state/country/province listed; do you ship internationally?
No, we do not ship outside of the continental United States at this time. We do not ship to Canada, Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii, nor to Maggie's Nipples, Wyoming or Assinippi, Massachusetts at this time.

Pretty sure they have nothing to woot about...

VIDEOSENSATIONS wrote:Wait for a USB 3.0 centron not so hot

any flash memory @ under $1 per GB is a good deal. the only real concern here is quality/reliability. a usb 3.0 will probably run you a LOT more than $1/gb

KamikazeKen wrote:any flash memory @ under $1 per GB is a good deal. the only real concern here is quality/reliability. a usb 3.0 will probably run you a LOT more than $1/gb

it is NOT a $1/GB! Do you live in Woot's warehouse and don't have to pay for shipping the very least

grif wrote:

I have not seen any numbers for readyboost attempting to work over USB 3.0, but that point is moot since there are practically none of those yet.

Readyboost over USB is just insipid, why would you swap a tertiary swap file over to your slowest drive interface?? Never was intended to work in practice, only in theory.

"practicallly none"? My mid-range laptop purchased from dell in Dec has usb 3.0 and is all ready for readyboost. Only thing we're waiting for is usb 3.0 thumb drives to hit a reasonable price, the usb 3.0 32gb flash drives seem to be stuck in the $90-$120 price range right now.

yni wrote:it is NOT a $1/GB! Do you live in Woot's warehouse and don't have to pay for shipping the very least

buy 3. after shipping that's 96gb for $94.97.
just under 99c/GB

not too worried about it playing MP3s on my car deck.

KamikazeKen wrote:buy 3. after shipping that's 96gb for $94.97.
just under 99c/GB

1. you can only buy 2 so do your math and some of us would have to pay tax and yes i know about tax discount coupon woot offers
2. from somebody concerned with reliability to give advise buy more than one - not nice

does the product sell better if the picture is out of focus?

I got a 16GB here in June 2009 and, amazingly, still have the cap for it. It is a smaller form factor than my other USB flash drives and somewhat easy to misplace. Data transfer is on the slow side but is not unbearable. Handy for moving video and other large files.

bigexxon wrote:Would love to get one but it has bad reviews on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Centon-DataStick-Flash-Drive-GB-001/dp/B001QFYCU2

There are only three reviews at Amazon and they lack sufficient detail. The first one dates back to 2009 and there are two comments you should read. Amazon does have a record of selling knock-offs and knocks offs are common in flash sticks, Many come from China. There are easy to do. Just get brand name cases and
insert very cheap flash meant for bios chips and such.
The cheao flash is designed and made for uses where the need is for Read Only Memory and occassional write.Put that flash in a USB stick and you get
failure in short order

unksol wrote:I'd feel really bad for anyone who tried to do a woot off on dial-up.... That would just be one long steam of good prices youd never have a chance to order

I dont know sometimes I think a dialup connection is waiting on woot to send data oh snap :P

Indispensable for netbook owners.

Just so you know if it's not at least a G2, then it will be really slow.
For example, my SanDisk Cruzer 8GB is a U3 G1 device and it takes over 30 min to copy 8GB. My Kingston DataTraveler 100 G2 16GB device transfers 16GB in about 22 min.


You have been warned by many... Buyer beware and happy shopping.

Tonicisserious wrote:does the product sell better if the picture is out of focus?

Only if it's a yeti.

dabills22 wrote:Hmm... What's the "Pro" for??

Pro = aluminum casing as opposed to plastic, leather or perhaps crustacean...

Nothing to do with performance.

ThreeDee912 wrote:Never liked USB sticks with removable caps. If I don't end up losing them, they end up falling off after a while.

Hey, how about putting a rubber band on the cap and snaking it through the end of the flash drive? It's cheap and readily available.

I have 3 of these, from the store I work at. I've had them for a year, now, and I have never had a problem with them. Although, I did buy them for $55.00 a piece...

Gotta pass on this one... I just picked up a refurb Western Digital "My Passport" USB 2.0 external drive (320GB) for $35 shipped (next day air!)... The thing isn't much larger than a deck of cards. At .94 cents per GB here vs. .11 cents/GB with the WD, it should be a no-brainer.

Sorry woot!, this one just isn't a deal in my book.

I bought a pair of Centon 4gb Datastick Sport versions in a Woot 2 for Tuesday several Woot moons ago. I kept one and gave one to my daughter. They both worked flawlessly for years until about 3 months ago when they both quit working within days of each other. It's like they had some sort of self destruct timer. Weird.

I paid over $100 for my 32GB usb stick.

sdc100 wrote:I don't know if you're being sarcastic but on Woot, that is indeed a good strategy. That's because things sometimes sell out and Woot has a very generous cancellation policy. As long as Woot gets your cancellation before the item is sent out, they will honor it. That means a Grace Period of about 2-3 days. Note that I am, however, only speaking from experience, without any knowledge of their official policy.

PS - Don't abuse this policy or it'll ruin things for everyone!

Yes, this is an excellent strategy. However it is only for me to use, not you. If you use it too more people may do this and then *I* will have to do research *before* buying and I don't like to do that.

Using this strategy is abusing the policy.

sdc100 wrote:While that may be true, no amount of money can reimburse the loss of crucial data. SO make sure you don't delete the source files prematurely as you transport them on this drive. And always be mindful that these are not made for permanent storage.

So... Are there flash drives made for critical or permanent storage you don't have to backup critical data?

I really hate the idea of backing up critical data. Why bother? It's critical - shouldn't I be able to set a flag or something in the OS so it just knows that?

If you store data, critical data, and you don't back it up you're an human. I don't care how good your storage medium is.

Had many in the past, this is the first brand that actually fail me.

I bought the 8GB version last year. It died within the first month. I'd advise not buying this.

Pretty horrible reviews all around...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820237032

http://www.amazon.com/Centon-DataStick-Flash-Drive-GB-001/dp/B001QFYCU2

It looks cool though!

ThreeDee912 wrote:Never liked USB sticks with removable caps. If I don't end up losing them, they end up falling off after a while.

For those with cap retention issues, get a usb wallet. You can pop the stick out and leave the cap in the wallet.

"I'll just lose the wallet"

What? Are you 12? Pay attention and keep up with your things!

chefbooyadee wrote:(USB flash drives are small external hard drives that can easily be connected to computer peripherals such as keyboards, mice, printers, and digital electronic spies to conveniently store, share and transfer your data.)

whut.

no, no, no, kind of, and no.

edit: remembered some printers accept USB flash drives

Umm...you are aware that keyboards and some mice do occasionally have USB inputs on them. right??

Just click on the item pic of the main Woot! page and you usually get an alt image. Most times w/ what parts (cables, parts) come w/ the item.

Then just just page back... to get to the listing

Item today had a very short depth of field to give the back of the item a softer focus, gives it a look of "size and maybe dynamics"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field
ymmv

Tonicisserious wrote:does the product sell better if the picture is out of focus?

grif wrote:Its a 32 gig drive. Lots of devices might not like it. Partition it into several fat32 or fat16 drives for dumb devices to work with it correctly. Just FYI. Looking though the negative reviews I see some of them are having that problem. If you know the limitations of the device you plugging it into, then it should not be a prob.

Maybe if your using it on a Windows 98 box it will have problems. Consider it the same as a USB external hard drive. If you are having problems with it try reformatting it in Windows and it should work. NTSC would work on Windows, FAT32 format works on PS3, XBox and other devices. The only problem is to get a partition larger than 4GB on FAT32 you need special software or to be savy with Windows.

coastwaters wrote:Wow...my 4GB Centon flash drive caught on fire while plugged into my computer two days ago. I don't recommend this to anyone for any reason. Free is to expensive for this item!

You know, I have always found that my USB drives work a lot better when they are not being used over an open flame.

I believe 4GB(minus 1 byte) is the file size limitation with FAT32.

nickdude07 wrote:Maybe if your using it on a Windows 98 box it will have problems. Consider it the same as a USB external hard drive. If you are having problems with it try reformatting it in Windows and it should work. NTSC would work on Windows, FAT32 format works on PS3, XBox and other devices. The only problem is to get a partition larger than 4GB on FAT32 you need special software or to be savy with Windows.

Gatzby wrote:We don't support analog data connections.

Really? Because I've used woot during a woot off and it's worse than analog.

How do I cancel this order?

bigexxon wrote:Would love to get one but it has bad reviews on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Centon-DataStick-Flash-Drive-GB-001/dp/B001QFYCU2

Amazon would be wise to buy a smaller company with a loyal following to dump their bad review products on... oh, wait...

cubswoo wrote:Are these too slow for use as USB storage on an Xbox 360? I missed the December Woot for the HDD but using 16GB of space on this for storage would be nice.

Xbox only supports drives up to 16 G...

"The Xbox 360 console allows you to configure a Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drive or other USB storage device to hold a maximum of 16 gigabytes (GB) of Xbox 360 games, gamertags, videos, and other information. You can connect two USB storage devices to your console at once."
--From the Xbox support page.

allenallen wrote:why do the alaskans NEVER woot? ANSWER ME!!!!

Isn't it too cold for owl's in Alaska?

Looks like the 4 & 8GB sticks are good (have 4 or so eggs at newegg, but get to 16+ and not so hot. As much as I would love to have this, I think I'll pass.