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USB Flash Drive Roundup - 10/2005

 by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 4, 2005 11:28 AM EST
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Crucial Gizmo!

Crucial's drive is a well-built unit that is reasonable in size. The unit itself is fairly light, stylish and comes with a matching lanyard; although, no USB extension cable is provided.

The Gizmo! is truly a barebones offering, as it doesn't ship with any fancy utilities or anything other than some instructions on paper, the aforementioned lanyard and the drive itself. As such, the smaller capacities are fairly reasonably priced, with the 512MB part weighing in at under $30. Although the larger drives are still competitive in terms of price, they don't have the same advantage that the 512MB and smaller drives do.

 Crucial Gizmo!
Sizes Available 128MB - 2GB
Lanyard Included Yes
USB Extension Cable Included No
Data Encryption No
Password Protection No
Secure + Public Partitions Simultaneously Accessible N/A
Flash Controller Costar/OTi OTi002168
Flash Memory Micron MT29F2G08AAB
Warranty Limited Lifetime

Corsair Flash Voyager Kingston DataTraveler
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  • sxr7171 - Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - link

    Time to get a Lexar JumpDrive lightning. This may not be important to a lot of people, but a USB drive IMHO needs to have a loop for a keyring. It is the most convenient way to carry the thing and always have it with you no matter what. I guess this applies more to people living in the city and not needing a car and the big bulky car keys/remote that come with that.

  • TheInvincibleMustard - Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - link

    Speaking of, is there some reason the Lexar isn't on the RTPE? I mean, it did just win an Editor's Choice and all, so you'd hope it would be one of the drives listed in the newly-announced Flash Storage section ... :(

    -TIM

  • Pete84 - Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - link

    Bummer, OCZ's dual channel USB stick didn't get in.

  • jkostans - Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - link

    Someone didn't read the article......

  • SpaceRanger - Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - link

    Are USB drives able to be made Bootable?? I know that systems can recognize USB Floppy Drives, and boot from those, but I was wondering if you could take a USB Flash Drive and make it a bootable device.

  • Phantronius - Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - link

    depending on the flash drive and the motherboard BIOS, yes you can do it.

  • Phantronius - Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - link

    1st!!!

    I love my OEM made from some pretty lady in china USB 2.0 stick, its saved my ass so many times for my work, especially in data reterival and spyware removal.

  • Souka - Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - link

    I've had the Memina Rocket for a couple months now....before they even announced it (thanks to NewEgg)....write spead defintly kinda bite with small files especially, but usually I put drivers and stuff there once, then read mutliple times....so its a good match for me.

    PQI's I got over a year ago, and completely made everyone jealous.... for once, mem were bragging theirs is smaller than someone else's. :D

    I still use a SanDisk Titanium.....only a 512mb module, but still works well.



  • Souka - Wednesday, October 5, 2005 - link

    oopsss...typo

    meant to say...

    PQI's I got over a year ago for my office, and completely made everyone jealous.... for once, men were bragging theirs was smaller!! :D
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