Five colors, and the second-most expensive byte on this shelf

SamData Five 8 GB drives in five colors, with an activity lamp

Five 8 GB drives in five colors for $21.99 on Amazon.com on October 26, 2026 — $0.550 a gigabyte, the second-most expensive storage on this shelf — with a twelve-month warranty.

SamData five-pack of 8 GB USB 2.0 flash drives in five colors

SamData Five 8 GB drives in five colors, with an activity lamp

Five 8 GB drives in five colors for $21.99 on Amazon.com on October 26, 2026 — $0.550 a gigabyte, the second-most expensive storage on this shelf — with a twelve-month warranty.

Capacity: 8 GB per drive, five drives, 40 GB in total — stated in the title and in the first bullet. Eight gigabytes is the smallest capacity on this shelf by a factor of four; the next smallest are the two 32 GB drives
USB generation: USB 2.0 — stated in the first and third bullets, with compatibility given as USB 2.0 and below
Stated link rate: Not published on the listing — no figure in gigabits per second appears, only the generation name
Connector type: Type-A — implied by the body and the swivel clip, and never designated on the page
Stated read figure: Not published on the listing — no figure in megabytes per second appears. The third bullet says high-speed USB 2.0 and gives no number
Stated write figure: Not published on the listing — no writing rate appears anywhere, which on USB 2.0 is where the practical ceiling sits
Body design: Capless, with a metal clip rotating 360 degrees around an ABS plastic body — stated in the second bullet. The same description appears on the SIMMAX drive on this shelf, which suggests one supplier rather than two designs
Keyring provision: The swivel clip itself — the second bullet describes a metal clip around the body, with no separate loop named
Stated ingress rating: Not published on the listing — no water rating, no dust rating and no IP figure appears
Warranty length: Twelve months — stated in the fifth bullet, with free replacement promised for any problem within the first year
Amazon reference: B092879BVB
EAN: 0655160561726

Five drives in five colors, with the reason stated: one color per kind of content, which a single large drive cannot do
An LED activity lamp on each, which on a USB 2.0 drive is the difference between waiting and wondering
$0.550 a gigabyte, the second-most expensive storage on this shelf — five times the cheapest drive here

Best for: Handing out five drives that do not have to come back, where the color tells you what is on each one.

≈ $22

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Specifications

Capacity: 8 GB per drive, five drives, 40 GB in total — stated in the title and in the first bullet. Eight gigabytes is the smallest capacity on this shelf by a factor of four; the next smallest are the two 32 GB drives
USB generation: USB 2.0 — stated in the first and third bullets, with compatibility given as USB 2.0 and below
Stated link rate: Not published on the listing — no figure in gigabits per second appears, only the generation name
Connector type: Type-A — implied by the body and the swivel clip, and never designated on the page
Stated read figure: Not published on the listing — no figure in megabytes per second appears. The third bullet says high-speed USB 2.0 and gives no number
Stated write figure: Not published on the listing — no writing rate appears anywhere, which on USB 2.0 is where the practical ceiling sits
Body design: Capless, with a metal clip rotating 360 degrees around an ABS plastic body — stated in the second bullet. The same description appears on the SIMMAX drive on this shelf, which suggests one supplier rather than two designs
Keyring provision: The swivel clip itself — the second bullet describes a metal clip around the body, with no separate loop named
Stated ingress rating: Not published on the listing — no water rating, no dust rating and no IP figure appears
Warranty length: Twelve months — stated in the fifth bullet, with free replacement promised for any problem within the first year
Amazon reference: B092879BVB
EAN: 0655160561726
On Amazon.com: Amazon.com had an offer at $22 on October 26, 2026.

Five drives, eight gigabytes each, in black, blue, green, red and silver. The first bullet gives the reason for the colors outright: different colors help store different content. One drive per project, per client, per machine — which is a real way of working and one that a single large drive does not support, because a drive handed to somebody is a drive gone for a week.

So the comparison is not against another 8 GB drive. It is against buying one bigger drive, and here the arithmetic is unkind. Forty gigabytes in total for $21.99 is $0.550 a gigabyte, which is the second-most expensive storage on this shelf — just below the 32 GB SanDisk Ultra Flair at $0.562 and more than four times the PNY 256 GB drive at $0.109. Five separate objects cost what five separate objects cost; a multipack of small drives is not a discount, and this one is the clearest example of it on the shelf.

What the five bodies give that a big drive does not is the LED activity lamp, named in the third bullet as showing transfer status at a glance. Two listings on this shelf mention an indicator and one of them mentions it to say there is none. On a USB 2.0 drive, where a folder copy takes minutes rather than seconds, a lamp that says whether anything is still happening is worth more than it sounds.

The second bullet gives the body: a metal clip rotating 360 degrees around an ABS plastic shell, capless, with socket protection and not losing a cap as the arguments. It is the same description as the SIMMAX drive on this shelf, down to the phrasing, which suggests a shared supplier rather than two designs.

The third bullet’s compatibility list runs to Windows 7, 8, 10, Vista, XP, 2000, ME and NT, plus Linux and Mac OS — Windows ME and NT being systems from the 1990s, and the same list the SIMMAX carries. USB 2.0 and below, with no rate in megabytes or gigabits per second.

No read figure. No write figure. The intro to this section says nearly every listing states a read speed, and two on this shelf state none at all; these are those two. The fifth bullet gives a twelve-month warranty with a promise of free replacement for any problem in the first year.

Eight gigabytes each is the smallest capacity on this shelf by a factor of four; the next smallest are the two 32 GB drives.

Prices quoted in this text were read on October 26, 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

The questions that come up before an order

Is the five-pack cheaper than one big drive?

No. Forty gigabytes for $21.99 is $0.550 a gigabyte, the second-most expensive on this shelf, behind the SanDisk Ultra Flair. The PNY 256 GB drive here is $0.109. A multipack buys five objects, not cheaper storage.

Why would I want five small drives?

The first bullet gives the reason: different colors for different content. One per project or per recipient is something a single large drive cannot do, because a lent drive is away until it comes back.

How fast are they?

The page does not say. USB 2.0 is the only answer it gives, with no read or write figure, and the LED lamp is there precisely because a copy takes long enough to wonder about.

More USB flash drives

SanDisk Ultra 512 GB with encryption and the longest warranty on this shelf

Five years of warranty, the longest stated for a drive on this shelf, on the joint-largest capacity here — with password protection and a read figure of 130 MB/s against the 200 of the fastest.

Capacity
512 GB — stated in the title. It is the joint-largest capacity on this shelf, shared with the PNY Elite-X Fit. The description defines 1 GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes and notes that actual user storage is less, without giving the figure
USB generation
USB 3.0 — stated in the first bullet, which requires a USB 3.0 port for the quoted speed, with backwards compatibility to USB 2.0 in the second
Stated link rate
Not published on the listing — no figure in gigabits per second appears, only the generation name
Connector type
USB-A, designated in the title — which several of the seven listings on this shelf leave to be inferred. On a shelf where Type-C and dual-connector drives exist, printing it is the difference between a sure purchase and a return
Stated read figure
Up to 130 MB/s — stated in the first bullet with five qualifications: ten times a standard USB 2.0 drive at 4 MB/s, a USB 3.0 port required, based on internal testing, performance possibly lower depending on the host, and 1 MB defined as 1,000,000 bytes. It is the most carefully hedged speed claim on this shelf
Stated write figure
Not published on the listing — no writing rate appears in the title, the three bullets or the description. The single figure published is the read figure, as the first bullet states
Body design
Not described beyond the connector — the description calls it sleek and sturdy and names no cap, collar or retraction. At 8 g (0.3 oz) and 11 by 22 by 8 mm (0.31 in) it is the second-lightest drive on this shelf
Keyring provision
Not published on the listing — no loop, no clip and no lanyard hole is named anywhere
Stated ingress rating
Not published on the listing — no water rating, no dust rating and no IP figure appears
Warranty length
Five years, limited — stated in the description. It is the longest term stated for a drive on this shelf, where three listings publish none, one twelve months and one a year; the Ultra Flair's description names five years for its range
Amazon reference
B083ZLJ5MG
EAN
0619659179397
- Five years of warranty, the longest term on this shelf
- The joint-largest capacity here at 512 GB, and $0.234 a gigabyte
- No write figure, so the single published number is the read speed and the slower direction is unstated
Best for: Half a terabyte on a key that has to be covered by a term rather than a hope, with a password on the files.

≈ $120
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SanDisk Ultra Flair 32 GB, whose own footnote undercuts its headline

A metal thirty-two-gigabyte drive quoting 150 MB/s and then publishing the arithmetic that reduces it: a 1.2 GB film in under thirty seconds is about forty megabytes a second.

Capacity
32 GB — stated in the title and in the reference. The first bullet’s footnote adds that performance varies by drive capacity, which means the headline figures belong to the range rather than to this version
USB generation
USB 3.0 — stated in the title and in the first bullet, which requires a USB 3.0 port for the quoted speed and notes that performance may be lower depending on the host
Stated link rate
Not published on the listing — no figure in gigabits per second appears, only the generation name
Connector type
Type-A — implied by the body and never designated on the page
Stated read figure
Up to 150 MB/s — stated in the first bullet and its footnote, which says plainly that 150 is the read speed and that it varies by drive capacity.
Stated write figure
Given as a multiple and then undercut by the page’s own example — the first bullet’s footnote gives writing as up to fifteen times a standard USB 2.0 drive at 4 MB/s, which is about 60 MB/s. The second bullet’s footnote gives a 1.2 GB film in under thirty seconds, which is about 40 MB/s. Both are published and neither is chosen
Body design
A sleek, durable metal casing — stated in the fourth bullet. At 4 g (0.1 oz) and 13 by 42 by 7 mm (0.28 in) it is the lightest drive on this shelf. Whether a cap is fitted is not stated
Keyring provision
Not published on the listing — no loop, no lanyard hole and no clip is named anywhere, on a drive small enough to lose
Stated ingress rating
Not published on the listing — no water rating, no dust rating and no IP figure appears
Warranty length
Not published in the bullets — the description names a five-year limited term for the range and the bullets do not restate it, so the figure is attached to the family rather than printed as this listing’s own specification
Amazon reference
B015CH1JIW
EAN
0619659136697
- Publishes the arithmetic that corrects its own headline: a 1.2 GB film in under thirty seconds is about 40 MB/s, against the 150 on the front
- Names the encryption properly — 128-bit AES, with the Windows and macOS versions it works on and the Mac download it needs
- The headline 150 MB/s is a read figure for the range, and the page’s own example implies about 40 MB/s writing on a real file
Best for: A small, solid drive for documents and photographs, bought with the thirty-second film example in mind rather than the number on the front.

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SIMMAX 32 GB swivel drive publishing its usable capacity as a range

The cheapest American listing on this shelf, and the only drive here that publishes what the operating system will actually show — 29.10 to 29.8 gigabytes of a nominal thirty-two.

Capacity
32 GB nominal, with the usable figure published — the second bullet gives an available capacity of 29.10 to 29.8 GB. It is one of two listings on this shelf that publish what the operating system will actually show, and the only one that gives it as a range
USB generation
USB 2.0 — stated in the title and in the third bullet, which adds compatibility with USB 2.0 and below
Stated link rate
Not published on the listing — no figure in gigabits per second appears, and the generation is given as a name rather than a rate
Connector type
Type-A — implied by the body shape and the swivel clip described in the fourth bullet, and never designated on the page
Stated read figure
Not published on the listing — no figure in megabytes per second appears anywhere. The intro to this shelf says nearly every listing states a read speed; this is one of two here that state none
Stated write figure
Not published on the listing — no writing rate appears, which on a USB 2.0 drive is where the practical ceiling sits
Body design
Capless, with a metal clip rotating 360 degrees around an ABS plastic shell with a rubber-oil finish — stated in the fourth bullet, which gives socket protection and not losing a cap as the two reasons
Keyring provision
The swivel clip itself — the fourth bullet describes a metal clip around the body, and no separate loop or lanyard hole is named
Stated ingress rating
Not published on the listing — no water rating, no dust rating and no IP figure appears anywhere
Warranty length
One year — stated in the fifth bullet. One listing on this shelf publishes a longer term for the drive itself — five years on the SanDisk Ultra 512 GB — and three publish none at all
Amazon reference
B07S4GGHNR
EAN
0611720047598
- Publishes the usable capacity as a range, 29.10 to 29.8 GB of a nominal 32, which only the Amazon Basics here also attempts
- The cheapest listing on this shelf at $9.99
- No read figure and no write figure anywhere, on a shelf where almost every other listing gives at least one
Best for: A ten-dollar drive for moving documents, chosen by somebody who wants to know in advance exactly how much space will appear.

≈ $10
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Others worth having spare

EVZA 25 × 16 mm (0.98 × 0.63 in), 8.00 m, two HDMI stated

The joint-longest run on this shelf at 315 in, sized by example for two HDMI and two USB or audio cables, with five connector types named and the lowest price per meter here.

Internal width
Not published on the listing — 1 in is given in the fifth bullet as "up to 1" Wide", with no statement of whether it is measured inside or outside
Internal height
Not published on the listing — 0.63 in is given as "0.63" high" in the same bullet, with the same ambiguity. The bullet adds a capacity of two HDMI cables as an example
External dimensions
1 in (25.4 mm) W × 0.63 in (16 mm) H — the figures the listing publishes, carried here because the page never says which measurement they are
Fixing method
Either — the second bullet names strong adhesive tape on the back, and the fourth says the installer can choose tape or drywall anchors and screws; it does not say the screws and anchors are supplied
Hinged or lidded profile
Not published on the listing — no lid, hinge, clip or cover is described in the title or in any of the five bullets
Length per piece
15.7 in (399 mm) — stated in the fifth bullet, which gives the length of each cable channel
Pack quantity
Twenty pieces, 315 in (8,001 mm) in total — the title gives 315 in and the fifth bullet gives 15.7 in per channel, which divides to twenty
Accessories supplied
Named by type, not counted — the fourth bullet lists couplings, flat elbows, T-pieces, inside elbows and outside elbows
Material
PVC — named in the fifth bullet as high-quality PVC material
Color
White — stated in the title
Amazon reference
B0BPCWH4G3
EAN
0860009536036
- 315 in of channel, the joint-longest supply here with the A+ Electric
- Sized by example: two HDMI cables plus two USB or audio cables, 3 to 4 cables in all
- The 1 × 0.63 in section is not said to be inside or outside
Best for: A whole-room run on smooth painted walls, at the lowest American price per meter here

≈ $25
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Electriduct 2 in bore and 88.9 × 25.4 mm (3.50 × 1 in) exterior, both published

The only listing on this shelf that says which of its figures is the inside — a 2 in channel inside a 3.5 × 1 in exterior — in a three-raceway kit with four named fittings.

Internal width
2 in (50.8 mm) — stated in the first bullet as "Channel Dimension: 2" Dia", explicitly as the channel. It is the only internal figure published on this shelf.
Internal height
Not separately published — the channel is given as a 2 in diameter, which on a half-round profile makes the usable height about half that
External dimensions
3.5 in (88.9 mm) W × 1 in (25.4 mm) H — stated in the fifth bullet as "Exterior Raceway Dimensions", explicitly as the exterior
Fixing method
Screws, through pre-drilled holes — stated in the fourth bullet. No adhesive is offered and no screws or anchors are stated as supplied
Hinged or lidded profile
Flanged half-round — implied by the 2 in channel inside an 88.9 mm (3.50 in) exterior; no lid, hinge or closure is described
Length per piece
Not published — the first bullet gives "Raceway Length: 59"" and the second gives 3 raceways, without saying whether 59 in is each or in total
Pack quantity
Three raceways — stated in the second bullet
Accessories supplied
Four, each named: one 90° turn, two joint covers and one three-way T — stated in the second bullet. No end caps and no internal or external corners
Material
PVC — stated in the third bullet, which calls it paintable PVC material to match décor
Color
White — stated in the title
Amazon reference
B00QQZ6K9S
EAN
0082045468328
- The only internal figure on this shelf: a 2 in channel, with the 3.5 × 1 in exterior given separately
- Four fittings named one by one: a 90° turn, two joint covers and a three-way T
- Raceway Length: 59 in, without saying whether that is each of the three raceways or the total
Best for: A heavy bundle run in a straight line, screwed down and painted

≈ $60
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Yecaye 15 × 10 mm (0.59 × 0.39 in), one cable, 8 pieces

The smallest channel and the lowest price on this shelf — 0.59 × 0.4 in for a single low-voltage cable, eight pieces, adhesive — with every other detail left out.

Internal width
Not published on the listing — 0.59 in is given in the title as W0.59in, with no statement of whether it is measured inside or outside
Internal height
Not published on the listing — 0.4 in is given as H0.4in, with the same ambiguity. The first bullet states the capacity as one low-voltage cable and names four kinds
External dimensions
0.59 in (15 mm) W × 0.4 in (10.2 mm) H — the figures the listing publishes, labeled W and H in the title. It is the smallest section on this shelf
Fixing method
Self-adhesive — stated in the second and third bullets, which name reliable mounting tape with strong adhesive properties. No screws or anchors are mentioned
Hinged or lidded profile
Not published on the listing — no lid, hinge, clip or cover is described in the title or in any of the five bullets
Length per piece
Not published on the listing — the title gives 113 in in total and the second bullet gives 8 channels, which divides to about 359 mm (14.1 in), but no piece length is stated
Pack quantity
Eight pieces — stated in the second bullet, which gives 8 cable channels for any residential or office project
Accessories supplied
Not published on the listing — the second bullet says the kit includes 8 cable channels and "some parts", and nothing is counted or named
Material
Not published on the listing — no PVC and no material of any kind is named in the title or in any bullet
Color
White — stated in the title
Amazon reference
B07D8WVJWF
EAN
0711766624644
- Sized honestly for one cable — a power cord, one Cat5, one speaker wire or one lamp cord
- The smallest section on this shelf, 0.59 × 0.4 in, for a run that should barely show
- One cable only — a second needs a second run
Best for: One visible cable — an Ethernet run, a lamp flex, a television power lead

≈ $13
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All USB flash drives

SamData Five 8 GB drives in five colors, with an activity lamp

Specifications

The questions that come up before an order

More USB flash drives

SanDisk Ultra 512 GB with encryption and the longest warranty on this shelf

SanDisk Ultra Flair 32 GB, whose own footnote undercuts its headline

SIMMAX 32 GB swivel drive publishing its usable capacity as a range

Others worth having spare

EVZA 25 × 16 mm (0.98 × 0.63 in), 8.00 m, two HDMI stated

Electriduct 2 in bore and 88.9 × 25.4 mm (3.50 × 1 in) exterior, both published

Yecaye 15 × 10 mm (0.59 × 0.39 in), one cable, 8 pieces