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    Which is the best USB Stick for using on CDJs today?
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    Any usb stick formatted in FAT32 which is big enough to hold your tunes really. I have one of these - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Dat...=kingston+16gb - and it works perfectly.

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    These are the only USB sticks I ever use. No chance of bumping into or breaking one of these bad boys:

    81qNktsJcbL._SL1500_.jpg

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...=1&s=computers

    I've got bloodly loads of 'em... They're the only ones I'll buy now.

    I haven't used 'em on a CDJ, but I imagne CDJ users have had issues with bumping USB sticks that poke out too far. That won't happen with these.
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    If you transfer playlists to USB regularly, look for something with a decent write speed. Many of the cheap+small drives only copy at 2-3 MB/sec.
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    Quote Originally Posted by makar1 View Post
    If you transfer playlists to USB regularly, look for something with a decent write speed. Many of the cheap+small drives only copy at 2-3 MB/sec.
    Do you know some that have high writing speeds? Cause it is the only thing I take to gigs besides the headphones, I want to have the best
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    Quote Originally Posted by Patch View Post
    These are the only USB sticks I ever use. No chance of bumping into or breaking one of these bad boys:
    Yeah, but try to find one of those after dropping it in a dark dj booth while being drunk
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    Quote Originally Posted by Daniboy View Post
    Do you know some that have high writing speeds? Cause it is the only thing I take to gigs besides the headphones, I want to have the best
    Amazon usually has benchmark speeds quoted for the more popular sticks, either in the product images or the customer reviews.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 3heads View Post
    Yeah, but try to find one of those after dropping it in a dark dj booth while being drunk
    So brutal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kwal View Post
    So brutal.
    keep 2 more in your pocket, they are getting cheaper every day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Patch View Post
    These are the only USB sticks I ever use. No chance of bumping into or breaking one of these bad boys:

    81qNktsJcbL._SL1500_.jpg

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...=1&s=computers

    I've got bloodly loads of 'em... They're the only ones I'll buy now.

    I haven't used 'em on a CDJ, but I imagne CDJ users have had issues with bumping USB sticks that poke out too far. That won't happen with these.
    I used to use these for my cdj850s, but ditched them because they took forever to load with tunes from rekordbox (via macbook air). Very slow write times, but they are very convenient and look very sleek when plugged in.

    I picked up a couple kingston data travelers instead, which seem to be a slight improvement on write speeds and look equally as sleek when plugged into the 850s.

    http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digit.../dp/B00DYQYITG

    i've actually been on the hunt for some faster sticks, but i'm not sure they exist in USB2.0 format, so the kingstons will work for now.

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