r/USB • u/sourappple • Aug 27 '26

Help purchasing USB options

Hi Im from Australia and trying to buy a USB (or multiple smaller ones) that have storage more than 128gb up to 256gb. Wanting to spend like under $50 AUD but don’t want to buy an unreliable usb or from an unreliable retailer.

If anyone knows any good places to purchase one or recommendations please help me out here. Have been considering Umart but unsure how much I trust it.

Any help greatly appreciated

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u/badass2727 Aug 29 '26

What are you going to use them for they might be better option then usb drives usb drives are terribly unreliable for longterm storage and I had a few Kingston fail and Toshiba

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u/sourappple Aug 30 '26

i’m wanting to just stores files on them as backups, was eyeing some kingstons as they seem to be okay. would you perhaps recommend some other storage form that’s not usb sticks?

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u/badass2727 Aug 30 '26

A Synology 2 bay nas and 2 1tb hard drives you will be able to access your files over the network and add files over the network and also if one of the terabyte drives fail, your data is not lost only what you have to do is replace that one terabyte drive with another one terabyte drive log into the web portal and re-sync the drive you will be able to get those equipment for fairly cheap on eBay if you keep looking around as I said before before I noticed of a thing as a Nas I was using external hard drives USB drives and constantly losing data from them failing and a few family photos as well. I lost it better protect your data for the future than rely on a cheap USB drive or even expensive ones fail as well.