Sony Micro Vault Midi - USB flash drive - 4 GB

...to work - after all - how do you try and blame an inanimate object?!?

It worked well for a few months but then went haywire and has now been replaced with another model - not Sony and certainly not another Micro Vault - stay well clear!  ... more

Say Sony, think quality, thats what I thought when I parted with £49.99 of my own - yes my own hard earned cash for the Micro Vault 4GB flashdrive. The amount of files I'm now moving and carrying around with me had got to the stage where I needed something reliable with a huge storage capacity so that I knew if I needed to store a massive powerpoint presentation to take on the road with me - I could with confidence. I ended up buying the Micro Vault from Amazon as it came in at about the same price as other different models but had a full 2 GB more storage and this got my juices flowing so to speak. 2 GB more - for the same price - bargain!

The flashdrive is nothing to write home about - it's very functional - and looks pretty much the same as very flashdrive I've ever seen - port at one end and thats it. The Micro Vault does though have a lock on it so you can't save to it by accident when it is in the locked position - a nice gimmick - but how many times have you saved a file by accident ? If you are like me - it never happens - I'm not that careless - nothing but a gimmick in my opinion - a pointless gimmick at that.

The Micro Vault works in the same way as all other flashdrives - it plugs into the computer USB port and its ready to go - that pretty much sums up the instruction manual! It is very slim so it is possible to have 2 seperate pieces of detachable hardware plugged up to USB ports that are located above and below each other. It isnt so chunky you can only use this one.

I had been using the Micro Vault for 2 months when it decided that it would wipe all my files - yep - thats right - I saved a presentation - doubled checked that it was there before leaving the office and went home for the night. The following day I arrived at a client meeting - plugged it into the laptop that had been prepared for me and nothing - every file had gone - huge - huge embarassment and one hell of a bollocking when I got back to work - after all - how do you try and blame an inanimate object?!?

It worked well for a few months but then went haywire and has now been replaced with another model - not Sony and certainly not another Micro Vault - stay well clear! 

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