SanDisk 2 GB Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive (SDCZ4-2048-A11, Retail Package)
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Customer Review: A Must Have Computer/Laptop Accessory!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have owned several flash drives before, some were Lexars some were Sandisks. After getting one of these small bad boys, I can give the rest away. This replaces all competition! It is so fast and far tinier than the picture appears. It is EXACTLY the size of one AA battery. Pretty amazing, huh?
I know a lot of people complain about the skins for this thing being flimsy, not reliable and such. Well, they must have a different version than the one I received because mine is VERY protected. The unit itself is metal and the plastic sleeve just fits over it. I don't see why anybody would want a metal sleeve; it would be impractical and far more prone to scratching. Also, I see some people commented on the sleeves being easy to loose. Well, sure, they are easy to loose but they are small. Cell phones and car keys are small and easy to loose but we don't knock points for that. Also, just because I think the complaints are inane, why do you care if they are hard to loose? When you receive your item you decide then and there what color you want it to be, silver...blue..or..grey. You just put the sleeve you want on the unit and throw the rest away! Who would want to change the color each day unless you are trying to color coordinate your outfit to match your flash drive?
This drive is a winner. It's a practical, small, FAST, and inexpensive unit that has set a new standard. Especially now with this $12 rebate...this drive is a steal!
Customer Review: Small but very slow.
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this flash drive after owning and loving a 1GB Cruzer micro for a few months. The 1GB drive goes with me everywhere and when I saw this on sale, I thought I would increase the capacity of the drive I carry around by purchasing this drive.
Although, the 2GB drive is the same physical size as the 1GB cruzer micro it performs nowhere near the same. I keep about 600MB of files on my 1GB Cruzer Micro and decided I was going to move it onto the 2GB Cruzer Micro. I copied the files onto my desktop and then copied onto the 2GB drive. It took 10 minutes to write the files onto the 2GB drive. I thought this was awefully slow as I know my 1GB drive doesn't write this slow.
I then wrote the files onto my 1GB drive and it only took 3 minutes and 30 seconds. This is when I knew something was wrong. I tested it a few more times and received the same result.
I also tested the drive with one large 350mb file and it wrote it in less than a minute. It seems that the drive can write and delete single files very quickly but does a very slow job at multiple files.
I subsequently returned the drive to Amazon.
Customer Review: Works great almost too small is right and NOT STRUDY!
Summary: 3 Stars
Just when I said something really nice about SANDisk products they force me to say something not so nice. But SanDisk followed LEXAR's bad lead by creating the very same oh so lame soft sided plastic sleave for its 2GB drive.
Now do not get me wrong this is an awesome drive from a sheer work standpoint. This puppy will gobble up two gig's of data so fast it will make your hair stand straight up! This drive is just nowhere near as solid and strudy as those smaller older sandisk drives encased in that almost indestructably hard plastic.
This is a good drive for storing lots of data but be gentle with it because, it is delicate small and made almost as lame in construction as the Lexars. This drive is still far better than the lexar drives but SanDisk took a GAINT Leap backwards in strudy durable quality of its drives with this soft plastic case. For shame and how stupid to have a good product and make it so much more lame. Shows the SanDisk People are not thinking.
I am still glad I brought one of these buggers because if you treat them gently they eat up data and hold on to it like few others I have seen.
Customer Review: DONT NOT BUY FROM THEM VIRUS
Summary: 1 Stars
I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY FROM THIS PLACE.
They install a Trojan hidden in this sandisk 2gb.
I bought this for my grandson and he used it on my vista computer. first time plugging it in, the thing would say win32x has stopped working. Thinking it was something wrong with my brand new computer. he continued to us it for his school work and photos from computer to computer. mined locked up had to reformat. nothing on it but a few photos and papers. he went next door, to show his work to his friends. Then to his other friend so on so forth and the funny thing is if they had window XP their computer would lock up in the matter of seconds. come to find out its the drive. so for the fact they where so cheap i bought one more just smaller. and low and be hold. the same problem not even having nothing on it. straight out the box. im going to request my money back.
Customer Review: Slow, slow and SLOW!
Summary: 1 Stars
Do NOT buy this product. It is incredibly slow, by far the slowest USB drive out of the dozen or so that I've used. It handles small numbers of large files rather well but it immediately chokes whenever faced with a large quantity of small files. I attempted to copy ~50MB (1500 files, 800 directories) to the disk and it took almost 30 minutes to complete the copy! That's roughly 27K/second. Deleting the files was painful as well, taking at least 15 minutes to delete everything. For kicks, I popped in an old 128 MB Kingston drive and was able to copy the same set of files to it in under 30 seconds and the delete took under 15 seconds. Bottom line is don't be fooled by the drive's small physical size, large capacity and price point: it simply doesn't perform.