After the death of my old USB thumbdrive, I've been using my portable HDD these days, to carry stuff around.

But yeah, it's larger, and has moving parts...  so I decided to buy a new USB drive, seeing the prices of them now dirt cheap.

Got myself an 8GB cheap/generic brand (my experience with generic brand USB drives aren't that bad - sure, they're not the fastest, but usually reasonable).
But this one has absolutely horrible write speeds...  It's like USB 1 speeds.  Copying from the drive feels more like USB 2, but seriously, double you tee eff?

Urgh, oh well.  It didn't cost that much anyway.