The tutor tells of a purchase he made.

A few weeks back, one of my kids wanted to borrow a flash drive so he could load his project on it to take to school. We didn’t have any at our fingertips convenient to lend; each that I knew of already contained files we didn’t want to lose. My wife eventually found him one that had been given to her for a purpose served many years ago. I resolved, however, to buy each of the kids one of their own.

Surprisingly, it’s been years since I bought a flash drive. Lots of files, nowadays, are simply uploaded to email, or some other server, then downloaded elsewhere as needed. I seldom use computers outside my home, so hardly ever use a flash drive. I was expecting to buy a couple of 2GB drives, paying around 1$ per GB.

At Staples today, the smallest flash drive I noticed was 8GB. I figured that was much more than a student would need, so began looking at the 8GB options. However, a PNY box caught my eye: two 16GB drives for $10.97. Was this too good to be true? I asked the clerk; she said it wasn’t the most recognized brand of flash drive, so might be less expensive just for that reason. What she said seemed true to me; I’d never heard of PNY. Turning the box over, I read “ASSEMBLED IN THE USA”. I decided to buy it.

At home, I opened the box and removed the two small flash drives. From my phone, via the desktop computer, I loaded a photo onto each one to see if they both worked, which they did. The load time seems fast to me.

It turns out PNY is a consumer electronics firm based in Parsippany, New Jersey.

I’ll be sharing more consumer electronics discoveries:)

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.