Imation Clip 4 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive

OK, I purchased this item last week, and I must say I am VERY impressed by it. I own several Verbatim 512 usb drives, a Sony 2gb usb drive, a Lexar 2 gb drive, and some smaller office usb drives (8 usb drives in total) and I must say this Imation drive is the best of all of these.

As to the comment made by the reviewer before about this drive being slow, this is simply not true. If you have a USB 2.0 capable system (newer to semi-newer system have by default) than this drive is actually very fast. I put over 3GB of software on my drive (THREE GIGABYTE!) and did this in less than 30 minutes, and that includes the time of me selecting the files I wanted to load on this! And my software folder on there alone has 1192 individual files in it! So to say this drive is slow, I can only say that there is something wrong with your system if it appears slow.

(Keep in mind, there is a difference between loading a few large files, and many little files; it will take...Read more

Having never seen one of these up close, I found the picture of the unit confusing. The black you see is a pliable rubber shroud that completely encloses the drive except for the gray area you see. This makes the unit very water resistant. You have to bend and peel off the rubber in order to remove the drive from its case. The drive itself is minuscule, less than two inches long, and has no hole that would allow you to attach a lanyard.
To me, the drive is way too tiny and susceptible to loss. It does have a blue LED and copied 300 MB of files in about two minutes.
I would have returned it in a heartbeat except for the reason I sought it out. Unlike most drives, it has a tiny read-only write protect dip switch on the side that shields the contents of the drive from malware infection. This feature is not mentioned in the amazon description but does appear on the manufacturer's web site. Access to the switch is recessed and very small. You cannot flip the switch with your...Read more

I owned the 1GB version of this for a long time and purchased the 4GB version for my partner. He, like I, has been thrilled with the Caribeener clip as we both keep it on our key rings at all times now. So there's never a time when we are without the ability to store files.

I keep my passwords on mine, so no matter where I am, I have access to them. (It is encrypted.) But something like PortableApps will make this even more useful.

No downsides that I've found.