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The USB Isn’t Dead – It’s Better Than Ever!
Promotional tools come and go. Other promotional items are tried and true, changing shape and form ever so slightly to adapt to the culture.
You might be tempted to think that the USB flash drive is firmly on its way out as a promotional product that works.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The USB is still useful.
No!
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Choosing a Promotional Product? Why USBs Get Results
It’s true in almost any industry — numbers don’t lie. So, when you’re choosing a promotional product, use your gut instincts and expertise, but also check into what’s working. A USB drive as a promotional product is getting results for businesses across the globe. Learn what kind of results you can expect by choosing this unique promotional product.
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What’s working in promotional products?
Every now and then, something comes along that disrupts an industry.
When the Japanese first introduced their small vehicles to America, citizens dismissed them. But not when younger consumers flocked to buy them, eventually making the manufacturers industry leaders.
When Washington’s Presidential campaign team handed out commemorative buttons in 1789, no one would have believed how the simple act would
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The Gigs.2.Go Kickstarter is Live
When we first mentioned the Gigs.2.Go USB drive it was all over the web, and everyone was asking how they could get their hands on one. Since then we have been working with BOLTgroup to perfect the design, and they have finally released it! If you are one of the many that can’t wait to get one, you can be
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CustomUSB at Print 13
We had a great time at Print 13 this year! If you didn’t get a chance to make it to the show here is a picture of our booth. We had this awesome new diorama made to help display our Custom USB Drives, and we made sure there was a little bit of everything on there so you can expect
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DVD vs USB: An Infographic for Photographers
Making the switch from DVDs to USB drives can be a tough choice for many Photographers. We decided to create this infographic to show the positives and negatives of each to help make that decision a little easier.
Click here to browse more USB Flash Drives for Photographers.
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Mini USB Toy Camera
For the past few days we have been playing with this USB toy camera trying to decide if it is something we wanted to start carrying. We have finally decided that the image quality just isn’t there. The concept is fun, but we just can’t see ourselves reaching for this before our smartphone.
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How does the PortableApps.com Carbide USB Flash Drive Stack Up?
When we called the PortableApps.com Carbide the safest, most secure USB Flash Drive on Earth it raised a lot of questions. So we have decided to post the answers to the most common questions we have received so far, but if you have any questions that aren’t answered here just let us know.
1. How does this compare to Ironkey?
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The Scoop on Cheap USB Drives
We are often asked about price matching and once in a while someone asks us to match prices found on eBay and Amazon. These prices are generally unrealistically low, even by direct-from-China standards. So, we decided to investigate and see what kind of product people were receiving when they bought one of these cheap USB Drives.
We found a 1GB
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NAND Flash Chip Types – SLC, MLC, TLC
USB drives are available in three types of flash, SLC (single-level cell), MLC (multi-level cell) and TLC (triple-level cell). Each one has its distinct uses.
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SLC (Single-Level Cell)
- High performance / faster write speeds
- Long-term reliability – 100,000 program/erase cycles per cell
- Has two states: programmed or erased
- Used for embedded and industrial applications
- Higher cost
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MLC (Multi-Level Cell)
- Lower
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