Before you place an order for promotional USB flash drives imprinted with your company, school or university name on there are some basic things that you should ideally be aware of.
Unfortunately, like many other industries that provide businesses and schools with the products there are "scam merchants" on it are all too willing to take your business and profitability at all costs, even if it means that we supply products of fake and poor quality. Since his name will be printed on USB flash drives, you should be sure not to fall prey to their scams or reflects little on your brand and organization.
Some basic things to look for when buying promotional USB flash drives are:
1) Your provider is using or planning to use the "upgrade" or Class B flash memory chip inside the USB flash drives, they provide. As the name suggests a flash memory module has been recovered from a recycled product class may have lost the complete process of quality assurance. They are likely to be the correct size of the memory, but they have a much higher failure rate and will generally poor results, for example, speed of reading / writing will be slow.
2) Check that the units were not "hidden". Masking is a growing problem and it is particularly difficult to detect. And 'small capacity flash drives seem to look as if they have more storage capacity than they actually do. Externally, the USB key is not like, even when you connect it to a PC everything will be "OK". If you have ordered 1GB USB key say they will appear as 1GB stick on the PC (even when you check the properties of the unit), but if you load the data on the drive up to the limit assumed, then remove the disc and insert it into another PC, You will find the data is not there!
What has happened is that the manufacturer / supplier 256MB flash drive and you say "hidden" to make it look like a 1 GB - you sell it to you as if it were a real 1GB. This is the reason why the prices of some suppliers seem so cheap - it is because you do not get what you ordered. Worse yet, they sell at a price of 1 GB and pocket the extra profit.
The memory modules 3) controller chip flash cheap and economic - the heart of any memory card are two main components: the flash memory of the module and controller chip that handles the process of reading / writing the flash memory. These two components are available from a number of different sources (Intel, Samsung, Hynix, etc.) and some succeed better than others - the price of them is a reasonable indicator of performance.
So, if you are offered USB "cheap", then be prepared for these two elements to be at the lowest level of what is available. This will have an impact on the speed and performance of USB keys. This is not always a problem, but if you intend to upload a lot of data on the USB key or you are a photographer you upload high resolution images of many hopes on sticks, so be sure to go for highly specialized memory chips and controllers.
4) It is not unknown for some suppliers to just put a sticker on a 256MB 1GB flash drive and hopefully get away without being noticed.
If you do not want to be a victim of these scams then buy from a reliable and reputable supplier and, ideally, a local supplier who will deal with any problems or questions you may have, once they have been delivered.
Phil is part of the USB2U team. USB2U is a specialized supplier of brand and promotional USB memory stick. We offer fast turnaround, excellent advice and support and free design and mock-ups. If you are going to Branded Memory Sticks or want custom USB memory sticks please contact us - we'd love to hear from you.
Unfortunately, like many other industries that provide businesses and schools with the products there are "scam merchants" on it are all too willing to take your business and profitability at all costs, even if it means that we supply products of fake and poor quality. Since his name will be printed on USB flash drives, you should be sure not to fall prey to their scams or reflects little on your brand and organization.
Some basic things to look for when buying promotional USB flash drives are:
1) Your provider is using or planning to use the "upgrade" or Class B flash memory chip inside the USB flash drives, they provide. As the name suggests a flash memory module has been recovered from a recycled product class may have lost the complete process of quality assurance. They are likely to be the correct size of the memory, but they have a much higher failure rate and will generally poor results, for example, speed of reading / writing will be slow.
2) Check that the units were not "hidden". Masking is a growing problem and it is particularly difficult to detect. And 'small capacity flash drives seem to look as if they have more storage capacity than they actually do. Externally, the USB key is not like, even when you connect it to a PC everything will be "OK". If you have ordered 1GB USB key say they will appear as 1GB stick on the PC (even when you check the properties of the unit), but if you load the data on the drive up to the limit assumed, then remove the disc and insert it into another PC, You will find the data is not there!
What has happened is that the manufacturer / supplier 256MB flash drive and you say "hidden" to make it look like a 1 GB - you sell it to you as if it were a real 1GB. This is the reason why the prices of some suppliers seem so cheap - it is because you do not get what you ordered. Worse yet, they sell at a price of 1 GB and pocket the extra profit.
The memory modules 3) controller chip flash cheap and economic - the heart of any memory card are two main components: the flash memory of the module and controller chip that handles the process of reading / writing the flash memory. These two components are available from a number of different sources (Intel, Samsung, Hynix, etc.) and some succeed better than others - the price of them is a reasonable indicator of performance.
So, if you are offered USB "cheap", then be prepared for these two elements to be at the lowest level of what is available. This will have an impact on the speed and performance of USB keys. This is not always a problem, but if you intend to upload a lot of data on the USB key or you are a photographer you upload high resolution images of many hopes on sticks, so be sure to go for highly specialized memory chips and controllers.
4) It is not unknown for some suppliers to just put a sticker on a 256MB 1GB flash drive and hopefully get away without being noticed.
If you do not want to be a victim of these scams then buy from a reliable and reputable supplier and, ideally, a local supplier who will deal with any problems or questions you may have, once they have been delivered.
Phil is part of the USB2U team. USB2U is a specialized supplier of brand and promotional USB memory stick. We offer fast turnaround, excellent advice and support and free design and mock-ups. If you are going to Branded Memory Sticks or want custom USB memory sticks please contact us - we'd love to hear from you.
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