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We have USB drives in the USA ready to print and ship!

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100

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 e [...]

Happy Year of the Dragon!

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100

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, plea [...]

Tis The Season For Completely Custom Made USB Drives!

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100

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..).

Made of soft PVC plastic, these fun and flexible [...]

How to Copy Big Files Onto a USB Drive Without Getting "File Too Big" Error Message

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

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 spac [...]

How much stuff can a USB flash drive hold?

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100

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 fi [...]

New 24 Hour Rush Order Credit Card USB Flash Drives

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:00:00 +0100

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.

We can print and ship this drive in v [...]

Great to See You At The Show!

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:00:00 +0100

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!

Microsoft To Support USB 3.0 in New Windows 8

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:00:00 +0100

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 easi [...]

If You Buy Cheap USB Drives...You Get Cheap USB Drives

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:00:00 +0100

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 pa [...]

Lanyard USB Drives - Perfect for Fall Trade Show Season

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:00:00 +0100

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 cl [...]

Many New Custom Made USB Flash Drives

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com! We've been doing a lot of custom-made USB flash drives for people in all sorts of cool shapes.

Like what kind of shapes? Well like company logos, products, and school mascots - for grade schools and universities. All created to the customers' exact specifications and all really cool custom-made USB drives! But don't worry if you don't have an exact design for a custom made drive, we can design it for you, all we need is [...]

Custom Made USB Flash Drives - Custom Shaped Just For You!

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Wed, 18 May 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com! We hope everyone's been having a good Spring trade show season. We've been doing a lot of custom made USB flash drives, and for good reason, they make a great promotion!

For not much more than the price of a regular USB drive, we can make a completely custom shaped USB drive that will be 100% unique to YOU! No more handing out the same thing as your competitor at a trade show, ugh how irksome.

We can make flash drives in any [...]

Check Out The New Wood Promotional USB Flash Drives

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com! We just added several new styles of custom USB drives made of wood to our website, check them out.

These are all of a woodsy nature, that is, made of wood.

First up is a nifty variation of the most popular drive of all, the Swing-Out drive, this is our Wood Swing-Out USB drive:

Printed with your message and logo on either or both si [...]

The Key to a Successful Promotion is a Custom USB Flash Drive

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com, premier provider of custom USB drives.

We have a cool product we're re-introducing: the Key Shaped USB Drive. This custom USB flash drive is perfect for any "key-to-success" themed promotion, and it's thin width makes it perfect for a mailer. Hit the product page and drop it in the quote cart for the latest pricing and info about it.

And don't forget, as with all of our drives, we can pre-load data onto each drive. [...]

Custom USB Drives with Lanyards Included

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com. We've been checking out the competition lately and noticed that there's a lot of "110% or 115% price guarantee" and "free shipping" shenanigans. So we decided to investigate, and here's what we found:

Prices that looked pretty good didn't include a lanyard with each drive, (we include in our price). The competition adds $0.70 each, ouch let go! "Free shipping" is only Ground shipping.&nbs [...]

The Best Custom USB Drives at BestFlashDrives.com

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com.

We wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of our loyal customers and welcome those of you visiting for the first time - thanks for checking us out! We have hundreds of satisfied customers who have come to depend our our efficient and reliable service again and again.

Setting us apart from the competition is:

Personal & professional customer service online AND by phone Efficient & highly reliable order fulfillment.100% product gu [...]

Article Explains How the Earthquake in Japan Effects USB Drive Prices Here in U.S.

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com, your source for custom made USB flash drives for the promotional market.

In an effort to keep our customer updated on the latest effects on USB flash drive supply due to the disaster in Japan,we recommend reading this New York Times article which explains how key silicone wafer and flash memory makers in Japan have been effected by the earthquake and tsunami.

We're seeing a stabilization in prices this week, so hopefully that trend will co [...]

Custom-Shaped USB Drives Still Available Here!

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com. As news of the NAND flash memory market continues to come in from Japan and all of Asia, we wanted to inform you that we are still able to take orders for our custom-made USB flash drives in both 2-D and 3-D silicone.

There is still plenty of stock of flash memory chips available, it's just that the price is fluctuating, but we are doing our best to maintain price quotes for at least 3 days, and in some cases a week.

As [...]

USB Flash Drive Supply Update: We Have In-Stock Drives!

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Greetings from BestFlashDrives. In our continuing efforts to keep you informed of the USB flash drive market in the wake of the disaster in Japan, we are pleased to inform you that we do have significant stock of drives available for rush production, here in the U.S. Please browse our 24-Hour Turnaround USB Drive section on our website for complete information on these styles and to request a quote.

We'll be able to hold our pricing for these drives for the ent [...]

Update on USB Drive Pricing As A Result of The EarthQuake In Japan

elazaruk@bestflashdrives.com — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0100

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com. We all watched in sadness as Japan was struck with terrible devastation from both earthquake and tsunamis a few days ago. The impact of this natural disaster has been felt worldwide and extends to our business here at BestFlashDrives.

Japan manufactures significant amounts of the silicon wafers and circuit boards used to make USB flash drives. With a couple of key plants reportedly unable to manufacture in Japan, China is reporting a [...]