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Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com.  Just a reminder that during the Chinese New Years that takes place from now until the first week in February we still have a great selection of drives in-stock in the good ol' USA that are ready to be printed with your logo and shipped out in very short order.  Just 24 hours as a matter of fact.

We can pre-load each drive with whatever data you need to distribute too.  PowerPoints, PDF's, MP3's, videos - whatever you need to get onto each flash drive and distribute!  

 

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com, your leading source for custom-printed and completely custom shaped USB flash drives!

We would like to wish everyone a very happy 2012!  The year of the dragon is here, and so is the Chinese New Years holiday, for which most all factories in China will be closed for 2 weeks, beginning on January 15 and reopening on January 30th.  

That means for any orders of Normal Production Time Drives placed from now until January 30th please, please allow extra time.  For all drive styles in our 24-Hour Rush category, there is no delay and drives will still ship lickity-split. 

 

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com, your leading source for custom made USB flash drives! 

Just a reminder that a completely custom-shaped flash drive is a fantastic way to get your message across this holiday season and in the new year beyond (which isn't as far away as you think it is if you're planning your 2012 trade shows..).  

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com, your leading source for custom made USB flash drives!

Here's a useful little How-To for PC users who've tried to copy a file bigger than 2GB over to a USB flash drive and received that annoying error message "Your file is too big to copy to drive F:"  If you're copying your Outlook .PST data file onto a USB drive, this is practically guaranteed to happen since most PST files are gigantic.

And you already know you have enough space on the USB drive because it's a nice new 8GB, and the file you're trying to copy is only 3GB (let's say for our example here..), so what gives, why the error?!  

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com,  your leading provider of custom usb flash drives! 

We sell a lot of usb flash drives to the promotional market around here, and people often ask how much stuff can fit on a USB drive and what size to buy.  So here's a little bit of info that we hope will be helpful.

 Today the most popular memory size for giveaways and premiums  is 2GB, followed closely by 1GB.  So, here are some approximations of how much will fit on a drive:

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com, your leading source for custom made and custom printed USB flash drives! 

Just in time for the holidays, BestFlashDrives brings you a great new option in our rush production selection - the extremely popular Credit Card/Business Card Shaped Drive - Fast Turnaround.  

Thanks for stopping by our booth at the show, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.  It's always good to meet customers in-person and interact on a more personal level.  Feel free to contact us for any custom USB requirements and we will be happy to help however we can!

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com, leading provider of custom USB flash drives!

Good news for those who have the need for speed when transferring data to USB drives or other devices - Microsoft just announced that it will be making USB 3.0 compatibility a standard part of it's new  Windows 8 operating system.   This means you won't have to download a driver to use 3.0 USB drives or devices anymore, not that this was such a big deal, but it will make everything that much easier now.

Microsoft announced that by 2015 all new PCs will come standard with USB 3.0 ports, enabling use of SuperSpeed USBs.  

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com, your leading supplier of custom printed and custom made USB drives!

Just a quick note regarding a trend we've been seeing and that is more and more very cheap drives flooding the market.   If you get a quote from a company selling USB's and it looks almost too good to be true, it probably is.  

These flash drives that are sold for oh-so-cheap are usually one of two things. They're either grade c memory chips that come from the part of the wafer that doesn't pass quality control standards at the major chip factories, and are sold for cheap and have very high failure rates.  Or, they're what's called "upgrade chips".  These chips have been altered so that they look like they have 1GB or close of memory when you plug them into your computer but they actually may have only about 75% of that.  Yes, it's pretty sneaky. Or, they could be selling you USB drives that are both - grade c rejects and also don't have full memory capacity.  

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com!  We hope your summer is going well. 

As people get ready for Fall trade show season (yes it's that time again!) we wanted to make sure you knew about a great dual purpose USB drive - the Lanyard USB Drive.  

This drive is a full size 1" wide lanyard, perfect for keycards and trade show ID badges.  Complete with quick-release clasp and a loop to fasten to ID badge, it also has a USB drive built into the quick-release clip.  Very handy!