Thanks to everyone who has rated me this year. I will still be around to rate in December but just ...
Thanks to everyone who has rated me this year. I will still be around to rate in December but just fancy a month off writing. Would appreciate some rates on my older reviews also.
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I remember when USB flash drives hit the market a few years back when you could fit a staggering 16Mb worth of data on a device the size of your middle finger. Since then capacity has increased and prices have decreased at an alarming rate. For example you can now get 4Gb flash drives for cheaper than the original 16Mb drives which represents great value for money.
Contents of the box are minimalistic to say the least, there is the drive itself and a little strap which you can then use to attach the drive to your belt/keyring, etc. This device really is plug and play in its simplest form, there arent even any instructions supplied with it, mainly because none are required.
-- Useage --
Plugging the drive into a spare USB slot will give you an extra drive in Windows Explorer (My Computer) typically F but could be further down the alphabet if you are lucky enough to have multiple hard disks and CD/DVD drives. On viewing the drive size in Windows Explorer, you will actually see that the disk is not quite a gigabyte (1 and 9 zeroes in bytes) which equated to 953Mb. Nonetheless, this is still more disk space than you are ever likely to need on a temporary basis. Read/write access to the drive is extremely fast. I managed to copy a 800 Mb file to the drive in just over 1 minute.
The size of the drive is also impressive. Measuring a cool 2 and a half inches long, it is probably half the size of my 512Mb drive and also a lot less bulky.
The only problem I would say with the drive is that there is no neck chain to carry the device with. As it is only a small device, I can see this being so seasy to lose, for example when you take keys out of your pocket, etc it could quite easily drop without being detected.
-- Verdict --
This device is so small, yet so robust. It comes with a 5 year warranty and works on both Windows and Mac machines. There are loads of higher capacity devices out there, however, if 1Gb is adequate for you then this is definately one I'd recommend
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