Rating: Summary: WHY WHY WHY? Review: Got this for the Holidays. Worked great on my USB1.1 interface for 2+ months. Then...I installed my new DFI mobo. Everything went fine until I tried out my Cruzer mini. "No disk in Removable Drive G:" "The drive is not formated" "Would you like to format now?" .... NO, I DON'T WANT TO FORMAT. I WANT MY FREAKIN DATA!!! I followed the steps that call for removing a couple registry entries. Nothing. Tried the drive on 10+ computers at a local retailer. No access anywhere. I even went as far as just trying to reformat. "Drive could not be formatted" What a joke... at least I can warn others since I work in technology.I'm so incredibly PO'd at Sandisk for making such a fragile and inconsistent piece of hardware. It's solid state memory for crying out loud! I was foolish for putting so many important files in one place for a backup. I've lost 3+ years of lab work from college, and I will never buy another device from Sandisk purely out of protest.
Rating: Summary: Convenient, small, all scratched up Review: We have the 256 MB and 128 MB versions of this product. First, the lanyard only works with a neck-strap so I took an older lanyard that hooks to my keychain. I don't know anyone who puts a jump drive around their neck. Second, the housing of the unit is scratched and pitted after only two weeks' use. Third, it gets really hot when it's in use. Not sure about that last one. Anyway if you can get this cheap, and you don't mind buying a new one next year, then go for it. Otherwise I recommend the Lexar versions whose housing takes the damage a bit more and will actually clip directly onto your keychain.
Rating: Summary: Failed on the first day Review: As many other reviewers I initially liked the slim design etc. But it failed doing what I bought it for, transporting data between computers.I have two workplaces and collaboration with plenty of students. The second computer I put it in gave an error message when trying to open it on the lines: "missing disk - please input disk". After a couple of retries it finally worked. Computer 3 & 4 gave the same results and now it is completely broken it seems. If theres any help on their web page I could not find it, at least I looked through the FAQ:s but nothing similar was mentioned except possible conflict with other drive, but on 4 computers? I also tried assigning a diffrent drive letter but...
Rating: Summary: Great Review: For 50.00 I find this drive to work great tigh fit into usb slot some may not like this I think the tighter the better.I have had my sandisk for 2 months no problems.
Rating: Summary: Mini cruzer problem Review: I had the same problem with Mini cruzer being stuck in my PC. I think that the slots on the usb connector are too deep due to the thicker metal used. It realy took me lot of force to get it out. Besides that everything else workrd fine.
Rating: Summary: UNPLUGGING ISSUE Review: IS OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IDIOT POSTING UNDER DIFFERENT NAMES. SAME PROBLEM POSTED SAME DATE, FROM SAME STATE. IN EVALUATING, I THINK I WOULD IGNORE THE POSTS BY PEOPLE WHO CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO UNPLUG THEIR EQUIPMENT - I MEAN, REALLY, THESE ARE THE FOLKS THAT CALL TECH SUPPORT EXTREMELY ANGRY AND THEN REALIZE THAT THEY DIDN'T TURN ON THEIR MONITOR, OR PLUG IN THEIR COMPUTER. THE PERSON IS OBVIOUSLY ANGRY ABOUT THEIR NEED FOR A BANDAID, SO THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD POST TWO NASTY POSTS. I SEE NO SIMILAR PROBLEMS FROM ANYONE EXCEPT FOR THOSE FROM THE SAME PERSON. I THINK THE USER IS INADEQUATE, NOT THE EQUIPMENT, JUST MY HUMBLE OPINION. I HAVEN'T USED THIS YET, BUT I AM GIVING IT FIVE STARS TO COUNTERACT THE PHONEY SECOND POST FROM THE SAME PERSON.
Rating: Summary: Nice price, Nice equipment Review: For about $50, these things work great. This Sandisk Mini has a switch on the side to lock-out writing and a software application to provide secure encription for stuff you store that should not become public domain if you were to lose your flash drive....
Rating: Summary: great price and faultless operation. Review: Used to back up critical files. Does so in a "flash" (forgive the pun)
Rating: Summary: It takes 30 minues to unplug it from your PC!!! Review: There is no "ZERO star", so I have to give "ONE star". I tried this flash drive on several different machines and got the same terrible experience! I pluged it in the PC. When I finish the work, I could NOT unplug it from the USB port! I was going to an appointment, but I just could NOT get this junk out of my PC!!! I was late for my appointment!!! I used some thin metal chip to insert to the side of the USB port in order to get it out. I not only failed to get it out, but also scratched my finger!!! My finger began to bleed!!! Dear god!!! The other day, when it got stuck in my office machine again, I even called the technician to unplug it. It took him 20 min to get it out with tools. I also used a Kingston flash drive and it never has this problem! I think Kingston is good. Don't buy this SanDisk cruzer. This drive is junk!
Rating: Summary: got stuck in various machine, not buy it Review: It works fine in my own laptop but got stuck in more than five other machine I use in other places. In the beginning I had thought it was because of the poor design of USB port in some computer, but I asked my friend to try his memory drive and everything works fine in his (a different brand). So I don't recommend it to you because the main function of a flash drive is help you to work on different machine. If it only works in some machine and you will never know whether the machine you are working is good to it or not, I think it has no use.
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