I have been wanting to get a bunch of SD cards. I am not really interested in the capacity of the individual SD card I am more concerned with the cost per sd card as I will be using them to mail data to clients or hand it off at meetings. The total amount of data is usually small (except when it is 4K drone footage).
Is there a no-name manufacturer that sells them in bulk? They look to cost pennies a piece to make but trying to find them in quantities of say 50 or 100 just does not seem to change the pricing from what it costs to purchase individually packaged ones. I have been using CD/DVD for this as they are pennies per unit but many people do not have CD/DVD readers in there computers any more.
The other option would be a memory stick but again they seem to be priced similarly to SD cards so there is no real savings there for me.
Most people don't have a SD reader unless this is client specific for you.
We buy 32gb USB sticks by the gross on Amazon, or we did last year.
wearymicrobe said:
Most people don't have a SD reader unless this is client specific for you.
We buy 32gb USB sticks by the gross on Amazon, or we did last year.
I second this idea. Put your logo on the USB stick and its free advertising as they use the USB stick over the years for other stuff.
No thoughts on where, but I'd be wary on the brand depending on where you get them from. Cheaper no-name brands have been known to contain spyware from China pre-installed.
Our work rules are strict on sticks and similar products. Any way to direct them to a YouTube video?
The 4k stuff is not the norm. It is mostly PDF files that are much larger than what email can handle and due to security concerns most clients don't use things like drop box and the like. They want personal hand off's or via the mail (I find that part a bit funny as it can get lost in the mail) but not my rules.
I have looked in to the USB stick and a logo on it but again the per unit cost is what I am after. The advertising aspect on a USB stick really is not $$$ well spent. No one will call me based on my logo on a USB stick. My kind of business is just not helped by that type of advertising. A retail type business on the other hand I can see it being a good place to get exposure.
I have received what I believe you are looking for, very thin (almost half hight?), rather cheap USB sticks. They HAVE to be cheap. Obviously China is the origination of these. Of note, I never did get it to work so unfortunately I threw it out, otherwise I would post a pic (it was a cheap thing yellow plastic).
Marketing dept at a place I used to work ordered 2 or 3k USB sticks with their logo on them every couple years from random sources in China. Crazy thing happened one time-- you'd write a file or two and then when you added another file the files would be corrupt. The whole batch was that way. They brought it to us and I learned a lot about USB sticks over that next week.
The "published" capacity of the drive (the size that your computer tells you it is) isn't discovered by the computer, it's inputted onto the stick's "meta data" (if you will) by a program used by the manufacturer. Unscrupulous mfgs, like the one the marketing dept found, will take a 14k USB stick and plug in the info that it's a 4GB stick. The first 14k you write will show up fine but then like an odometer the 15th KB of data overwrites the 1st KB, and so on, leaving you with corrupted data.
I also discovered how to make a section of a USB stick unformattable. People even from other depts would grab these $4 sticks by the handful, reducing their use as a promo giveaway. These same mfg programs allow you to tell part of the drive it's a CD, for instance, that can even autoplay their promo video upon insertion. They played around with it and decided it would simply make people not want to use the stick if it always popped up a video, but decided that keeping a section non-overwritable with links and some promo material would be a happy medium.
Jerry
UberDork
8/10/20 12:32 p.m.
My small company makes a device that uses SD cards, we just Amazon the stuff.
