USB Memory sticks

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Am completely clueless as to what size I should buy.

Please help. I only want to download photos on it and when I look on Amazon, it mentions 1gb, 2gb etc.

Thanks in advance

Get the biggest size you can afford. 4gb is good, 8gb even better

What are you using it for? To send photos to others? Or as a backup in case your laptop dies?

Personally I'd suggest 8GB minimum. Most people I know now have at least a 2GB of photos so getting a small drive is a false economy.

Thanks for the replies. I am using it as a backup for the PC and for anything else I might learn to do with it .
8gb it is then

Try not to spend much more than 10-15 quid. There are a lot of companies selling 4/8 GB pen drives and having known some "go wrong" I would suggest maybe getting 2x 4GB for now and putting the same info on both of them. Two backups is better than none and if one goes wrong (far from impossible) then you have yet another copy to fall back on.

Also consider (free) service like www.Humyo.com which allows 5 GB of media file (music/photos/etc) storage and 5 GB of non-media files, for free.

It would be slow to upload dozens of files (so maybe worth making a ZIP file of each folder of photos, documents, and just uploading the ZIP files).

They restrict free users to uploading/ downloading via the web browser, so you might need to leave a PC on overnight if you upload a folder which (in sub-folders) holds hundreds of MB of photos, depending on your internet connection speed. (NB Download speed is often a few times the upload speed on ADSL. I cannot comment on upload speeds using Virgin cable as it is not available here.)