Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day: great prices on PNY Memory and mobile power products

Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day is up to 50% off PNY memory and mobile power products.  There are some excellent savings on flash memory, memory cards, USB flash drives and mobile power products from PNY.  But my favorite finds in this Gold Box deal are on the flash drives, because they are so incredibly useful.

My go-to price on flash drives (also known as jump drives and thumb drives) has recently dropped to about $0.40 per gigabyte; so I'll normally pay about $25.00-$26.00 for a 64 gig jump drive and consider that a good deal.  This Gold Box Deal is even better.

Amazon has lowered the price on these four flash drives:

• PNY Turbo 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive for $19.99 ($0.31 per GB)
• PNY Turbo 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive for $69.95 ($0.27 per GB)
• PNY Metal Attaché 32GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive for $10.99 ($0.34 per GB)
• PNY Metal Attaché 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive for $18.99 ($0.30 per GB)

As you probably know, USB 3.0 Flash Drives are much faster (about 10X) than USB 2.0 Flash Drives, but if speed isn't a tremendous issue to you, they are all priced around the same, from 27 cents to 34 cents per gigabyte.  If you are buying these for gaming, I think you must use the USB 3.0 flash drives.

The PNY Turbo got 4.4 out of 5 stars over 2,436 customer reviews and the PNY Metal Attaché got 4 out of 5 stars over 44 customer reviews.  These are excellent prices on great products.  I love how huge the PNY Turbo 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive  is and how I can practically back up my entire computer system on it.

What do I use flash drives for?

• Travel:  this is my main use for portable drives. if I want to take my laptop with me on a plane, but also need a ton of files from my main computer, it takes me about 5 minutes to copy them on to a flash drive and put the drive on my key chain.  I can work with the files by just plugging them into my computer, and then bring home the updated versions the same way.  Flash drives were made for travel.
• Backup:  I have a regular backup drive, but there are certain files (documents, pictures) I'd like to keep multiple safe copies of in different physical locations.  You never know when a disaster like Sandy or a fire or a burglary (all God forbid) may hit you.  We actually have some flash drives tucked away in our safe deposit vault.
• Music storage:  music files like mp3s are huge and tend to eat up my computer, laptop, iPad and phone storage very quickly.  While I keep the majority in cloud storage, there are a few I like to keep offline, and those are on flash drives.
• Photos:  ever empty an entire summer's worth of pictures from your iPhone to your PC?  There are a few you'll want to keep on there, but the rest should go into storage.  Also remember that those wedding pictures of your grandparents from the 1940s just aren't going to last forever; scan them into digital form and back them up them on a flash drive.  
• Documents:  birth certificates, passports, marriage licenses, divorce papers, ketubahs, gets, citizenship papers, court records, even tax returns and receipts, financial records, etc. all should be backed up tucked away on a flash drive.  These are all things that are not easily replaceable.

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