Free USB Flash Drives For Students

Rich Gates January 27, 2022 Fundraising via USB, Software, USB Gadgets

USB Flash Drives are indispensable for the students.

They are a fantastic tool to store and use documents and other important data. Moreover, talk to any student and they will let you know how they carry a USB flash drive—attached to key rings, customized with colors, shapes, objects, and much more!

With a USB flash drive, you can use your computers or laptops efficiently whether you’re at home or university, or school. There may be times when you want to continue work even after school hours; therefore, carrying a USB flash drive is very handy.

With all that being said, USB flash drives can cost students a lot; especially if you’ve lost one and have to buy another. Therefore, here are a few ways you can get USB flash drives for free.

Free USBs With A Purchase

There are many computer stores, and stores for cameras, cell phones, and other tech-related things that give flash drives for free with purchases.

Itpstyli

Itpstyli is a company that makes over 1000 styli for CMM, gear measurement equipment, and machine centers. To get a flash drive for free, you have to add it to the cart and save the cart as a shopping list.

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MyBioSource.com

The company sells biological reagents. If you’re in the field of biology, and need products in bulk, you can get a free USB flash drive, or even more, based on the items of your purchase. Your free flash drive will get you 8GB of storage.

You must also keep an eye on Best Buy, Tiger Direct, and NewEgg, as these tech retailers often give away tech items, including USB flash drives. They may also give away products when you refer people, share their promotional posts, subscribe to their newsletters, be a loyal online presence, or buy products from them.

Flash Drive Retailers

As you must have realized by now, there are very few stores that sell just USB flash drives. However, they do exist; and the chances of you getting a free USB flash drive from them becomes quite high. You can accomplish this through online contests, giveaways, store promos, affiliate programs, and more.

USBholic

USBholic is a Texas-based retailer that sells flash drives. You can pick a cute design from their store and choose the 4GB one. When you do so, you’ll see the price to be $0.01 per flash drive. Even though it’s not completely free, it’s close. USBholic ships flash drives to Europe, the US, Asia, and Oceania. However, please check the shipping costs to your place to see if it’s worth getting it shipped.

5 Realistic Looking USB Airplane Flash Drives

Rich Gates August 27, 2014 Flash Storage, Fundraising via USB, Hand Crafted USB, USB Prototype Design, Useless Novelty

Promotional items have been around for years. Coffee mugs, pens, etc are still the default item for marketing manager without an imagination. Back in 2000 the flash drive was the new kid on the block for swag. Flash forward five years and the USB stick was a bit like the coffee mug, old and boring. At about this same time manufacturing processes started improving for using silicon as a moldable material. This is where the custom flash drive started gaining popularity. As time move along, the process and technology got even better. Today we are seeing some fantastic promotional items in the shape of logo’s, parts, products and even airplanes. Today we list five realistic looking USB airplane designs that would get any marketing manager excited about a promotional flash drive. Let’s take a look large cabin cruiser airplane usb, flash drive

Here is the Pilatus airplane flash drive airplane, pilatus

Here is a Hawker airplane usb airplane, hawker

Here is the F16 and F35 planes designed by Lockheed Martin usb jet, F16

These are all very impressive designs and certainly a piece of swag any trade show junkie, or even executive, would love to have. Times have certainly changed. The source for these designs is through a company named www.USBCOPIER.com and these products or any customized design can be created, just contact them. Continue Reading

USB Recycler Service

Rich Gates June 9, 2010 Fundraising via USB

In today’s digital age, it’s very common, in fact – expected – that everyone own a USB flash drive.Â Flash drives are the easiest and most convenient way to store data, transfer files and keep that ever changing data near you.Â If you are like me, you have a favorite flash drive.Â Itâ€™s not necessarily because of the way it looks, but rather – over time – all of your important information has accumulated to one stick.Â You get to a point where saving data can only be done on that one, favorite USB drive. This is where RecycleUSB.com comes in, if you have extra sticks lying around, which arenâ€™t gettâ€™in the love – donate them.Â Recycle USB is a USB recycler service that partnered with Sugar Labs to turn unwanted flash drives into portable learning computers for kids. What do I mean by portable learning computers? Well Sugar Labs created a Linux distro [based off Fedora] which boots directly from a flash drive.Â The distro is a customized learning platform for kids to learn, interactively, on a computer.Â The great part about Sugar Lab’s approach is that it doesnâ€™t leave a footprint on the host PC.

The USB Recycler service will take your drive, load it with the latest version of Sugar on a Stick and send it to Sugar Labs for global deployment. Sure you can do this yourself or just drop the USB stick in the mail and not worry about it.Â If you’re looking for the weekend project here is the link to Sugar Labs. Recycle USB mentions that if you are really in the mood for donating, you can get a tax credit for larger donations [say your company had a couple hundred extra flash drives from a trade show which are no longer being used]. Continue Reading

Recycle USB Drives For A Good Cause

Rich Gates July 24, 2009 Fundraising via USB, Recycle USB

If you are like me [and most people] you have a favorite flash drive.Â It’s not necessarily because of the way it looks, but rather – over time – all of your important information has accumulated to one stick.Â You get to a point where if you are going to save any kind of data to your USB drive, then you might as well save it to the one which has everything else.

Recycle USB

This is where RecycleUSB.com comes in…if you have extra sticks lying around, which aren’t gett’in the love – donate them.Â Recycle USB has partnered with SugarLabs to turn donated USB sticks into portable learning computers. What do I mean by portable learning computers? Well SugarLabs created a Linux distro [based off Fedora] which boots directly from a flash drive.Â The distro is a customized learning platform for kids to Continue Reading

Nice Arm Rest For the Work-a-Holic

Rich Gates July 10, 2008 Fundraising via USB, USB Fever

Not every work station is ideal.Â In fact, most people probably have a desk area overloaded with paper, USB gadgets and family photos, so this portable arm-rest comes in very handy. Although it’s not a USB gadget, the arm-rest could be an invaluable tool to help fight Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or fatigue from your arm, elbow and shoulders.

arm rest

Even as I type this article, my elbow is hanging off the side of the desk so a little more desk space would definitely help me. Ask yourself, do you need a little extra elbow support? Continue Reading

Pexagon Technology Offers Contemporary Fundraising Program Via USB

Rich Gates April 14, 2008 Fundraising via USB

Pexagon Technology has a fresh, contemporary way for schools to raise money for their academic and extracurricular activities via USB.Â The idea is simple, offer a 1GB gift card to schools, kids and parents where by the purchase results in a customized 1GB drive with their school mascot or logo.

usb fundraising pexagon

The USB fundraising plan is simple; the schools contract an agreed bulk price with Pexagon along with customized logo design, the school then set their own gift card price which best suites their community.Â The delta between the cost and fundraiser purchase price goes right to the school club or program. With memory prices constantly decreasing, this is an excellent way to get valuable technology into the students hands while providing contributions to their schools fundraising activities.Â If parents had to choose when buying flash memory, I’m sure they’d opt for USB fundraising option. To learn more about USB fundraising with Pexagon you may contact Shane Schmidt for more details.Â Here is the contact page:Â USB Fundraising with Pexagon Technology. Continue Reading

Public Service Announcement: ATP Petito USB Drive Sets Out to Fight Breast Cancer

Rich Gates September 17, 2007 Fundraising via USB, SanDisk, USB News

The well known ATP Petito USB drive is now available in a limited edition Pink Ribbon version marking the support for the fight against Breast Cancer.

ATP has joined hands with Susan G. Komen against the fight. A percentage of retail sales will be used to support the organization in funding research, supporting education, screening and treatment projects in communities around the world.

“As a leader in the technology marketplace, we were excited about taking the initiative in contributing to this important cause,” said Michael Plaksin, ATP Vice President of Sales. “The Pink Ribbon Special Edition of our Petito USB Drive presents an opportunity for our consumers to make a change in someone’s life and proudly display their support of this critically important cause. With this innovative device, they have the unique ability to keep the all the memories of their loved ones, who have been affected by the disease, close at all times.”

The Petito Pink Ribbon flash drive is available from 512MB to 2GB sizes. This great news comes on the heels of SanDisk announcing their support for Alzheimer’s; as one can see flash drives are quickly becoming the favored item for fundraising. Nice. For more info: ATP Inc. Komen for the Cure Continue Reading

Public Service Announcement: SanDisk and Alzheimer’s Join Hands

Rich Gates September 14, 2007 Fundraising via USB, SanDisk, USB News

SanDisk is helping in the fight against Alzheimer’s with a specially branded USB drive and SD card. Look for the color purple which represents “Take Action Against Alzheimer’s”

SanDisk will contribute $1 for each unit sold to the Alzheimer’s Association. The products available are 2GB capacity and carry the same price tag as the regular branded drives. SanDisk commemorative Fight For The Cause products are now available at SanDisk.com, Best Buy and other participating retailers. SanDisk would also like to note September 21 is World Alzheimer’s Day, and you can join millions of others in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. If you’d like to make on-line contribution today to Alzheimer’s Association, your donation will help turn $1 million into $2 million. If the Association reaches the goal of $1 million, the Harrah’s Foundation will match it â€” dollar for dollar. Help make a million dollar difference. Make a pledge today to FUND THE CAUSE. To learn more about SanDisk’s fight against Alzheimer’s please visit SanDisk/alz/ Continue Reading