Hot Buy? Amazon’s $17 1TB Thumb Drive!

Like many of you, we have a great deal of experience in the process of backing up our files to portable drives, and we don’t like to toss anything unless it’s broken. The result is that we have terabytes of files spread across dozens of drives that we just can’t bring ourselves to toss…even when they’re old and slow…and filled with junk such as 15-year-old press releases and drivers. Taking the time to sort through the trash just never crossed our minds, but what if we could just put all that data on a couple cheap thumb drives?

With a $16.99 temporary price representing a 62% discount off of its $45 list, this Scorders 1TB unit has all the user reviews you’d expect from such a high capacity at such a low price. Perhaps the name should have been “Horders”, but we think “Scorchers” is adequate as well: The most frequent complaint from buyers is that it slows down and stops when transferring large files, and our experience with early high-speed drives indicates that overheating is the most likely issue.