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Summary: People are always jealous of my Cruzer Micro
Review: ...because their thumb drives are so much bigger than mine! It's as fast as I expected, runs just fine on an unpowered USB hub (e.g. keyboard USB ports), and it's so small that it doesn't block other USB ports when it's in use.
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Summary: SSSSLLLLOOOOWWWWWWW.....
Review: 41 Mbyte folder with a mixture of files/sizes/types.
To copy the folder to the Cruzer = 15 minutes!
To delete the folder = 15 minutes!
42 Mbyte zip file.
To copy the file to the Cruzer = 30 seconds
To delete the file = 3 seconds
Something is wrong in the design of this product. It is over 10 times slower when dealing with multiple files compared with one single large file. You have been warned...
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Summary: Small & Rugged - Perfect for the keychain
Review: All guys have a minimal set of items that are always with them, for me these are: keys, wallet, glasses, and cell phone. Since the number of items in the set is directly proportional to the comlexity of a guy's life, adding an item to the list requires life-altering benefits in return. For example, adding a wedding ring brings with it a wife, 2.7 kids, and one more anniversary date to remember. As convenient an USB drive may be, it doesn't meet the requirement to become a "minimal set item".So I took a look at the existing 4 items and determined that my keychain is the thing that can be "enhanced" with a USB drive, and for that the small and rugged Micro Cruzer is the best choice out there. At just over 2" long, it is only slightly longer than a standard house key, and that length includes the integrated key chain ring. Combined with .75" width and .3" thickness, it is one of the smallest USB drives you can find on the market. You can find smaller USB drives out there, but they are simply too fragile. The Cruzer Micro has a brushed stainless clam shell steel body that extends from the keychain ring to the USB connector in one continuous and seamless slab. And over this steel body is a thick plastic jacket that has a slight rubbery texture to it. Two USB connector covers are included, a thick one and a slim one - choose your level of protection. The thick one pretty much sleeves the entire drive and make it impervious to anything this side of tank treads. Add to this tidy and tough package the speed of USB 2.0, 512MB of storage, and a very bright blue status LED, it's a complete package that simply outdoes any other USB drive out there, including the Cruzer Titanium, which incidentally looks more like a mini cigar sleeve than a proper USB drive. Dont be a poser - be a guy - buy the Cruzer Micro.
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Summary: Watch it... design problems...
Review: I bought this product after reading some reviews placed around. Even though it proved its utility up to a certain degree, since the beginning we had problems with the design, since it makes it a little uncomfortable to attach to the computers. After a while, some of the computers in my office stopped recognizing it, something that did not happen with other drives of the same maker.
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Summary: This is the best
Review: I had older SanDisk flash drive but that was small and I never had it when I needed it. This one has very practical place holder for key chain and its with me all the time in my key chain. I bought it anyways insipte of the previous reviewer (Julian) that you will loose the cap but I think that will be not be the case and in fact the cap looks pretty good. I have not lost it for the first month so far and I don't think so I will. The older Sandisk flash drives had some what firm plastic caps, this one is a bit elastic and kind of body sticks to the drive which is good and feels more secure. There is one additional holder (or something) for this drive in the package which I think is good for nothing. My wish list is that if they could provide 2 additioanl small caps to the drive if in case you loose it anyways. I highly recomment this drive.
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Summary: Slow things come in small packages
Review: I have had this drive and am extremely dissatisfied with it. It performs far slower than my old Lexar JumpDrive which is only USB 1.1. I have read the Cruzer titanium is the fastest on the market. Well, after owning the Cruzer micro I can say it must be the slowest on the market.
I have tried every type of file system when I format it. I have tried to optimize for performance. And I have tried to copy files large and small. No matter what I do I cannot speed up this drive.
It does get 1 star though for being so small and having a cool blue light when it is plugged in.
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Summary: Slow as hell
Review: I have used numerous memory sticks in different capacity and brands at work. I bought this for my personal use because it looks slick. All I could say that, this is the worst! Slow as hell! Many times I just want to throw into the trash can... especially when I am in a hurry. Even after I bought, I had to rely on floppy for smaller files. Saving a Meg file to floppy is much faster than writing to this dumb stick, even with USB 2.0.
I assume those given positive reviews for this product have never used memory sticks before. My recommendation is, know who to believe and don't waste your money.
By the way, I would be glad to sell my memory stick for $35 dollars if anyone wants it. Just email me. It's in like new condition and rarely used(not that I don't want to use it).
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Summary: Does not work in keyboard USB ports
Review: I like the size, the speed is slow but I can just zip up my files first as the drive has a slow time dealing with lots of small files.
The one thing that irks me is that it draws too much power and DOES NOT WORK on the USB port of my Mac ( standard mac keyboard ) or PC ( MS Natural ) I have to plug it into the machine itself. I bought this to move files to and from clients computers and am a little concerned that when I get to the clients office I will not be able to move the files.
A friend has a cruzer micro 256, It works on both of my computers keyboard hubs.
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Summary: Small and solid
Review: Sandisk's site claims you only need drivers for 98SE. I have only used it on XP and a co-worker's 2000 Pro. It plugs in and works the first time without a reboot. Sandisk claims Windows ME will also use it without drivers. The loop-hook is metal inside the slightly soft plastic covering, so it's not going to break. You are far more likely to break the included string lanyard or plastic quick-disconnect hook for the included necklace. Put this on something with a good metal ring and it's not going to break and fall off. The Blue LED is bright, and stays on when idle (in the computer, see below re: MP3 Companion). That helps you remember to take it with you. It blinks when read/write operations are happening, reminding you not to pull it out until it's done. There is a note in the included quick-start guide about which operating systems you should use the "remove device" tool with. The MP3 Companion works well, I gave it 4 our of 5 stars. The blue LED is only on when the player reads in the whole track as it starts to play it, otherwise it's off to conserve the AAA battery's life.
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Summary: Warning: this flash drive is very slow
Review: Take it from me: this Sandisk Cruzer Micro flash drive is very slow and does not operate at USB 2.0 hi-speed as advertised.
I tested this on four systems: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Mac OS X. I did the testing by copying 400MB of MP3 files. In theory, at USB 2.0 hi-speed's 480Mb/sec maximum speed (that's 50MB/sec), this should only take 8 seconds. But no USB 2.0 hi-speed device I know of operates at that max speed (someone should really bring a class action against Intel, Apple and the other designers of USB 2.0). OK, let's say on average we should get 10MB/sec, which is 10 times faster than the original USB 1.1. So my 400MB of MP3 files should take about 40 seconds, at least no more than a minute, right?
Well, when I tested the 512MB Cruzer Micro on the four systems, the copying time took between six minutes (WinXP) to nearly 10 minutes (Mac OS X). Note this is not a test about which OS is better at supporting USB 2.0 hi-speed; in my experience WinXP, Win2k and Mac OS X all fully support USB 2.0 hi-speed equally well. My Win NT machine at work also has the appropriate service pack so it's also USB 2.0 hi-speed compliant. So the fault must lie with the Sandisk flash drive.
(For comparison: I copied the same 400MB of MP3 files to my Seagate 160GB USB2 external drive and it took only 35 seconds. That came to over 11MB/sec, 10x faster than with this Sandisk Cruzer Micro.)
It does seem that if you copy a large file, the Sandisk drive works faster; when I copied one 200MB AVI file, the speed was about 3MB/sec, faster than copying small files but still nowhere near USB 2.0 hi-speed's regular rate I've observed. Also, I discovered that when deleting a large number of small files, the Sandisk can take an awfully long time.
So please take my warning seriously: this flash drive does not work nearly as advertised. You are getting speeds litter better than USB 1.1. Since I'm not the only one who's complained about this, this must be due to a serious design flaw, or just flat out false advertising by Sandisk.
In terms of exterior design, the Cruzer Micro is very small, and it comes with both a tiny cap and a sleeve. The sleeve is way too loose and you can easily lose it. BTW, if you have a deeply recessed USB port (like one of the four on my Fujitsu laptop), you won't be able to plug this in -- in fact this was why I bought this, thinking it would fit into that USB port. Your USB port must have enough space at the opening to allow the plastic part of the flash drive to go in.
I'll contact Sandisk's tech support regarding the serious speed issue, but given other people's similar negative experience, I think I'll probably end up returning this phony product.
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