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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:

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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.  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 the inventory of USB flash memory chips shrinks prices will probably rise, so given that current forecast in the industry we suggest getting orders in sooner rather than later - not being greedy here, just giving you the honest 411!

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 sharp increase in flash memory prices overnight, and shortages.  

We are working to determine the exact story and how to minimize the impact to you.  We're committed to communicating information as soon as it becomes available.  

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com!   There was a great article yesterday in the New York Times on Google's new open source operating system (OS), Google Chrome. 

It appears that it's ready well before Google thought it would be, and not only works on netbooks as originally planned, but also will boot up any PC, direct from a USB flash drive (that's the part we like!). 

Google was planning the release after a lot more testing and then only for the netbook at first, but the open source crowd has been far more entheusiastic than anticipated, and so the programming went quickly.  As with all open source projects, once the genie is out of the bottle, there's no putting it back.  So it appears that Google is rolling with it, and people seem to like it.

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com!  We found this very helpful article on how to make a USB drive a Windows 7 bootable drive, and how to set it up to install Windows 7 on a netbook from the USB drive. 

Here's the article on How-To Geek, enjoy!

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com.   We've been waiting a long time to announce something like this, and today it's finally time - a major PC maker, HP, announced on Wednesday that it is launching a new laptop that will be equipped with USB 3.0. 

Let's hope this marks the day that this new super-fast USB protocol finally goes mainstream and becomes available to us, the eagerly awaiting masses (we've been waiting for a good year or two for this!).  

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com.  We just caught wind of an exciting new development in higher education.  Thomas Edison State College has very successfully deployed a system of distributing materials for entire courses on USB flash drives. 

The online college had been experiencing challenges with course delivery due to software imcompatibilities in online delivery and other issues, so decided to deliver all course materials on 2GB USB drives to students. 

This platform agnostic system eliminates the problem of incompatibility of some computers with online course systems, and also enables students to access course materials anytime, anywhere, without having to be connected to the Internet.