Once again while out shopping for the odds and ends at Aldi, I spotted what I thought was a cheaper than normal 4GIG memory stick. I bought this item as it was mixed in with the 4GIG SDHC Memory cards and had a sign saying £6.79 and as I needed a USB Key (8 would have been better), I bought this along with the rest of the shopping. I had not checked the receipt they printed off and once home, discarded all the box it came in (plastic wrap) and went on to use it.
Opening the pack
I was presently surprised when I saw it actually had in the bottom a Micro SD Card reader built right in, as I use these cards in my phones, this would come in handy even though I have it built in on my other device I bought (costing £1). You may ask what is the point of this? Well it is like having two memory sticks in one really, they come up as two separate drive letter.
Stiched up on price
I looked at the receipt later on and saw I was charged in fact £12.99, surely some mistake. I checked the web sites and such as seen it was in fact £12.99. Through the week I went into the store and by now they have re-arranged the part with the technical item in there and quite clearly they had it labled as £12.99 – the £6.79 was in fact as I suspected the SDHC SD Card (the type you shove in camera’s). I had a word with the guy at the till and he suggested that if I had the box (which I did not) – I could return it.
Lesson learnt
If I had shopped on-line, I could have bought 8GIG for the same price (minus the memory card reader). I should have checked my receipt before leaving the store or looked a lot more closely before getting this. This time I shall grin and bear it and live with the fact that I paid what I feel is “over the odds” for a memory stick.
Using the deivce
I have used this a few times already, the first was putting Windows 7 ISO onto the stick and installing – this worked much faster then a DVD for example. The other time was I needed to copy off 7.5 Gigs worth of photo’s from a machine I had booted via Ultimate Boot CD. I got a 8Gig Micro SD card from stores and used this device to get the stuff on there.
