Flash drive bonanza: 36 crummy drives tested and compared!
By Laura June 
posted Jul 6th 2009 4:32PM
posted Jul 6th 2009 4:32PM
The wild array of flash drives you see above -- a veritable cornucopia of bad taste, if you will -- has been put through some rather exhaustive paces by the freaks over at Test Freaks. That's right, they rounded up the finger tip, the tiny skull, the truly disgusting chicken foot, as well as a wide variety of fake edibles -- and poked and prodded them en masse until they came up with the answer we expected: most of these are actually pretty shoddily made. As if you buy a foul-looking shrimp tail flash drive because you expect it to get the best transfer rate. Hit the read link to check out the full insanity of this undertaking.
[Thanks, Vincent D.]
[Thanks, Vincent D.]
Does the crucifix flash drive resurrect your corrupted data?
@Barney: obviously not. "does quality matters"
The word cornucopia gets used far too much on this site.
@ Sisyphus
No, it crucifies it.
@ Sisyphus
No but it will deleted your pron it doesn't like unholy thing
*porn
Really, Complex? That's the word you chose to edit?
I thought was going to be the new engadget recession antidote
but they're all soo kyoote ^-^
I guess one of those Chinese factories had a bunch of those fruit-shaped magnets left over, that used to be so popular, and didn't know what to do with them so they tuned them into flash drives.
I honestly feel sorry for whoever had to mess with all of those. It's like a holocaust of awfully designed and socially suicidal jumpdrives. Shit.
Your avatar describes whoever designed some of those god awful devices.
Where exactly is the usb drive on the stuffed animals?
Hopefully you remove the head, lol...
Unfortunately the connectors seem to be a suppository ;)
asd
Chicken's feet disgusting? You don't go Yum Cha in Chinatown / Asia much do you?
That bracelet is where it's at. Diamond studded and all.
dejavu...?
It looks like the strawberry 8gb has some kick
You say:
"and poked and prodded them en masse until they came up with the answer we expected: most of these are actually pretty shoddily made."
But the article says this:
"Quality wise, most of these drives are decently made,..."
Usually a good idea to at least read the article you're commenting on.
I did read it. They don't immediately fall apart, but the brand name drives beats them nearly every time. Hence, they're not really up to our standards, imo.
From Engadget: "and poked and prodded them en masse until they came up with the answer we expected: most of these are actually pretty shoddily made."
From the bottom of the article: "Well we learned that USB Novelty drives just aren’t that good for doing anything but looking cute. "
From Neil: "Usually a good idea to at least read the article you're commenting on."
I read it. They might not have good specs but, most of them are "decently made". Sort of the opposite of "shoddily made".
Anyone else notice on the bar graph that the 2gb stuffed fox holds 4 gb worth of data?
That's bang for your buck, foxy lady.
Most of them are tacky as hell. Off topic but whatever happened to ieye and his many iterations? I'd take him over Paul chapel anyday.
Choked on an iPod.
No USB sushi? What kind of hack review is this?
No Hello Kitty?
Of course, the one thing not mentioned is the shear impracticality of most of these novelty USB drives. Especially if you have to try and jam them into a USB port that is next to another USB port that already has something in it.
favorites: the pizza (hawaiian), the shrimp tail and the pill. these are damn hilarious.
favorites: the pizza (hawaiian), the shrimp tail and the pill. these are damn hilarious.
Making their way to a supermarket capsule machine near you. Actually that's not a bad idea ™®©2009
Dibs on the owl bling and the fried chicken!
Next they should sell those drives and buy a $5 lamp to light their pictures in the future, if they can they might also get digital camera instead of using that old webcam(?)
Fingertip drive??? Its a THUMB drive
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The Michael Jackson Flash Drive will resurrect your data.*
* Requires anesthesiologist, sold separately.
What i want to see are the people who actually buy these drives
I want the Fox and the Pill those two are priceless.