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The original question was:
Quote: you wanted to buy a thumb drive today, where would you go in order to...
•[A] Maximize your convenience
•[B] Minimize your cost
You recommend store XYZ because of their SSD prices. It could have great prices on SSDs, but their thumb drives could be overpriced. Have you answered the original question?
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yes.
as far as I understand it a thumb drive is a small portable storage. the shape format does not matter except being small. and that's exactly what I was talking about.
And I found this item excellent value for money to boot.
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So, unless I'm missing something, you're saying a thumbdrive is, for all intents and purposes, interchangeable with an external SSD.
Consider that a thumbdrive is small enough to put in your pockets and carry around with you everywhere you go. An external SSD, not so much.
Different devices for different purposes.
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this SSD is credit card sized! and about 4 mm thick! this slide easily in the pocket or in the wallet!
though, to be fair, it also need the connecting cable.... but it ain't much of a drag. and it's a 500GB SSD!
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Show me someone carrying an SSD on a keychain and I'll shut up. 
I've lost numerous thumbdrives and haven't cared too much in any instance; they're disposable at this point in time. SSDs? Not so much.
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(time is money)
Probably online of a local store after checking availability or ride down to the store at lunch time if they have it in stock and can put it aside for me.
I'll probably pay a little more if I can get it (and need it ) immediately.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I suspect that the cost difference would be minimal, so I would go for option A.
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These are such open-ended questions that answering them is useless. Even were I to tell you where (in Israel) I go for the cheapest hardware, I doubt it would be the cheapest for you once travel costs are factored in. Ditto for convenience.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Your favorite internet reseller.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I'd say "convenience store", but I think quality may suffer as a result.
I think there's a Best Buy closer to me anyway (about five minutes according to Maps), so I might go there.
modified 24-Jun-21 12:59pm.
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I'm 15 minutes away from a MicroCenter, so...
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must be real nice! 
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I try to go both... If I am not in hurry.
Here in Germany there are a couple sites that get really cool offers from time to time, so it is just a matter of patience to find good things with cheap price.
If I am in hurry... then I go for convenience and I don't pay so much attention to the price.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Thumb / usb / flash? I tend to buy flash drives rather than thumb.
I tend to only buy "branded" cards and drives now, so I settled on SanDisk for both, and I haven't had a problem since (I can't say that for "generic" devices - some of those are a total ripoff!)
For convenience, I can go to my local supermarket, and get a 32GB Cruzer Blade for around £11.
For cost, I can go to Amazon and buy three 32GB Cruzer Blade for £14.66 ... and have them delivered tomorrow.
They are flash, but speeds of 30 MBps read, 5.0 MBps write are fine for me.
No prizes for guessing which I go for.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: I settled on SanDisk for both
I buy SanDisk consistently for thumb drives. While they do fail(*), they perform as advertised, don't include malware, and are rarely DOA out of the package.
(*) We buy SanDisk 32GB drives in #100 lots where I work. They're used for software distribution and occasionally archival storage. I've seen probably 1 in 200 fail after a short period of use, and the failure is always the "read error detected so set the device to read-only" kind. I've never had a connector-related failure, unlike some off the off brands.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I've also never had one "underperform": report itself as 32GB but actually hold a couple of meg, have poor transfer speed, or have a "loose" connection (unlike some of the unbranded ones).
There are also fake branded kit out there, so I buy from "known suppliers" not "Ooo! that's cheap!" on FleaBay. 
Good, reliable kit.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Depending on the size, Best Buy or WalMart. 128GB or less Wally World has the best deal. Bigger than that you might have a hard time finding and would have better luck at Best Buy.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Got mine at WalMart too. Extremely happ woth price and performance.
Yes it IS hell getting old.
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modified 17-Jan-22 9:18am.
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What does "HD" stand for ? May be "Hadoop Distributed" 
modified 24-Jun-21 9:35am.
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It is a hint for leprosy - you should keep your distance...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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"HDInsight" is an anagram of "hindsight", as in "In hindsight, should you have used it?". 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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