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Brand names and flash drives for price and storage capacity?

How does brand name matter when buying a flash drive?
$3-$4 can get you a Centon or PNY 64GB on Ebay.
 Maybe $7-$8 for Sandisk.
Lexar are low priced. I see them and Verbatum.

Some on Ebay don't even have a brand name.

16GB vs. 32GB vs. 64GB for music and video files and other text files.
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Second, it is important to get a drive with fast read and write speeds (Two different things). I take advantage of USB 3.0 drives so they can read/write faster to a computer with USB 3.0 ports

My system is a few years old. I may not have a USB 3.0. The flash drives I see on Ebay are USB 2.0 in general. I'll need to check my Vista machine and see which USB I have.
So, 3.0 is the latest?
Yes, 3.0 is the latest. Even if you don't have 3.0 on your current computer, you can take advantage of the speeds on other systems that do have it. You'd also be future-proofing your investment. This is all, of course coming from a techy that wants all the latest "toys". The speeds are considerably different between 2.0 and 3.0 so it's worth the additional cost to me. It all depends on what your needs are.

Here's another good list of charts:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4523/usb-30-flash-drive-roundup/5
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Will get a 16 Gig Sandisk I think.