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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, 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.

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 continue and we'll keep you posted.

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com!  We hope everyone is gearing up for a great Halloween.  With the coming of Halloween comes the final rush into the holiday season for gift buying.

For business owners, salespeople, and corporate marketing types, that means purchasing promotional products for holiday client gifts.  Many people I know agonize over this, spending hours trying to find that perfect gift that no one has ever done before.  This is admirable, but probably not such a great idea.  You can kill a ton of time this way and still have nothing to show for it.

Why not just go with what's the most popular promotional product this year: promotional usb drives.  Again.  It's been the most popular giveaway for several years running now, and for good reason.  They are highly practical, and there is never a shortage of shapes or sizes.  You can even have a promotional USB drive custom-made - so it will have a totally unique shape to your message, and thus satisfying that need to give something completely different this year.  

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com! 

Just a friendly reminder that if you want custom made USB drives for the holidays this year, now is the time to order, from now until about late October. 

But don't cut it too close, if you want the drives pre-loaded with your data of any kind it will add a few days to the production timeline.  

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com!   We have been trying to avoid all of the hoopla about the new iPad, but just learned that the device has no USB ports.  Which is no surprise really, since it seems to be the same as a rather large iPod Touch, which is nice, but would be a whole lot nicer if it did have a USB port or two.  So that our custom printed USB flash drives could be used to transfer data on an off of the iPad.  But we're not going to take it personally.

It seems a bit surprising that this new Apple iPad has polarized people so much.  It looks like a great device, but many people are trashing it.    

A lot of propellerheads seem to want it to have every feature under the sun.  Features from devices as diverse as cellphones and computers, they want the iPad to have it all on there. 

Welcome to BestFlashDrives.com, your source for custom and logo-printed USB flash drives!  Yes, you can say we're going to the dogs with this new addition to our fantastic line of fun USB flash drives.  Go ahead, make the jokes now, let's get this over with.  

But, if you're the marketing director of a pet products/veterinary products company this could be just what you are looking for!  Available in many bright and fun colors, this drive is sure to please.  Upload with your marketing materials and print your logo and voila!, instant crowd-pleaser at the next conference or trade show!  Get more details on the new USB dogbone drive here.

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com!  We're happy to announce a new custom USB flash drive to our line-up - a key-shaped USB drive!  Made of beautiful brushed metal finish on both sides, and about the same thickness of a real key, this jump drive is sure to be a hit with any key-related marketing. 

Available in sizes from 256MB all the way up to 16GB, and fully customizable with your logo, in either a color print or laser engraving, it's the perfect "key to success" theme promotion - for industries such as security andreal estate, and in education and HR using an "unlocking potential" theme.  

Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com!    Continuing our series on holiday gift ideas, in this article we bring you a truly exciting and unique gift idea.  No sarcastic comments or virtual eye-rolls with this one.

The Beatles' Apple Corp and EMI announced release of a limited-edition USB flash drive containing a ton of newly-released digital goodies, including:

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