8GB USB Flash Drive $24.95 After Rebate

If you're looking for a USB flash drive with a higher capacity, buy.com has the Dane-Elec 8GB zMate Pen Drive on sale for $36.95. There's also a $12.00 rebate on purchases until May 26th bringing the net cost down to $24.95. That's less than you'd expect to pay for drives with 4GB.

Shipping is free so that cost doesn't factor in either.

A drive this size would let you carry around a ton of files, videos, pictures, etc.

For computers that run Microsoft Vista, flash drives can also enable a feature that can speed up your system, called ReadyBoost. It allows the USB flash drive to serve as a write cache for your system when it's plugged in to your PC/laptop's USB port. A portion of the space on the flash drive gets allocated for that, so it can use some of the drives memory to boost system performance. For some details and instructions about that, you can read this post from PCWizKid's blog.

So if you want to pick up a small drive with a ton of space for files or maybe to use for ReadyBoost, click the picture.