I try to keep an eye on the prices for the USB2 pen drives as they continue to fall. This week it appears that the best prices on these flash memory based drives including delivery on a single item are at MicroDirect.

512MB £35.23 including VAT and delivery. Link: Seitech USB 2.0 512MB Flash Drive

1GB £63.45 including VAT and delivery. Link: Seitech USB 2.0 1GB Flash Drive

I hear the groans...not another TFT monitor...well MicroDirect has these 17" TFT displays on offer for £199.70 including VAT and delivery. What makes these stand out from other 17" display deals is that this monitor actually has excellent specs including a 14ms refresh rate, 350:1 contrast and a 3 year warranty. A 14ms refresh rate is extremely good and you can game to your hearts delight, compare that to many other TFT screens at this price with only 35ms.

Where: 17" MD EA17 TFT Monitor

How: Follow the above link to the product page.

Microdirect has a 1GB USB2 flash drive on special for £65.74 including VAT. This is a Seitech drive but the brand name is not terribly important with these as you don't see much performance difference, most are actually just rebrands of another company anyway.

For a price like that it's time to throw away all the floppys and even the CDRW disks and go straight to solid state memory. The flash drives are incredibly resilient and you would have to try hard to damage the data on these. On a side note, the BBC tried damaging some flash memory cards for an article. The cards survived a washing machine, immersion in Coke and coffee and being run over by a skateboard.


Where: 1GB USB2 Pen drive

How: Follow the above link.