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Sony Micro Vault Tiny USB Flash Drive
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Sony Micro Vault Tiny USB Flash Drive
- Includes - Main Unit, Operating Instructions, Warranty Card, Label Seal, Carrying Case
- Hook onto keychain
- Attached to other portable devices with strings
- Clip on your notebook, memo pad at your office use
- Translucent colors Micro Vault Tiny
Product Description
The new Micro Vault "Tiny" is Sony's smallest USB flash drive with a fun, fashionable design and color-coded capacities. Measuring roughly inch wide and just over one inch in length, the drive offers storage capacities of 256MB to 2GB, and plugs directly into standard USB ports.The new Micro Vault "Tiny" drive's fun, compact design is sure to be hit among fashion-forward professionals and students alike. It gives new meaning to the phrase "Good things come in small packages".
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Sony Micro Vault Tiny USB Flash Drive
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- Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
- Publisher: Sony
- Label: Sony
- Format: CD
- Studio: Sony
- Average Customer Review: based on 9 reviews
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Tiny and Unreliable 2008-11-09
Comment: After having owned one of these for a few months, it died. It sat unused for 6 months and then when I connect it to the computer it isn't recognized. Formatting doesn't work, and Sony's special format tool doesn't work. My SanDisk on my keychain has been abused, dropped, and kicked around for over 4 years without issue and this one sat in storage for six months and it's dead.
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Summary: Not actually 4 gigabytes 2008-10-06
Comment: This is a 2 GB drive with fancy compression software. Don't waste your money.
Once the (Windows) compression program is deleted, it will only hold files as large as 2 Gigabytes, even though it still reports that it can hold 4 Gbs, even after being reformatted. I discovered this by attempting to copy a 3 GB file--it consistently failed after copying 2 GBs.
It's also (not surprisingly) very slow.
What a waste! I returned mine.
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Summary: Very small, but... 2008-07-27
Comment: I love the small form factor of these tiny usb drives; but, I really hate how very slow they are. The throughput is extremely slow compared to all the other usb drives I have. I have Sandisk, A-Data, Ativa, Verbatim, and a no-name usb drives and all are many times faster than my 4gb Sony Micro Vault. To load up 3-4 gigs, it takes several hours. To do the same on my 4gb Sandisk or 8gb A-Data, it is less than an hour.
My tech experience is very high. My testing was done on a Vista Ultimate 64bit laptop. I also have 2 2gb Sony Micro Vaults and they are just as slow. But at 2gb, it was not such a big deal.
If you just want something very tiny, then this is ok. But if you really also are concerned with performance, then buy something else. I recommend Sandisk.
Scott
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Summary: after 5 months mine is dead 2008-05-23
Comment: When I saw this thing in the store I had to have it. I got it for $35 at best buy. when I first started using it I noticed it was really slow! I dont think this is a very useful 4GB drive. I think my DSL is faster!
After about 5 months of using it 2-3 times a week it died. when I plug it into any computer it told me the device was not formated. I tried to format it but it would fail. I went to Sony's web site and there is a format tool to fix this problem but the tool failed. I called sony and they said it was a bad sector and thats why it will not format. I ask if this was a factory defect and they told me NO and that they would not replace it!!! After arguing with them for 45 min they said I could ship it to them for a replacement as long as I provide the receipt from 5 months ago.
This might be the worst $35 I have spent.
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Summary: Small but slow 2008-05-04
Comment: As others have said, it's slow. It max'es out at 5 MB/sec, write or read, which is fine for small Word files but not for a pile of jpgs you want to transfer to another computer. It's very tiny and stylish, though. If you've got large hands, you may find it too small to use conveniently.
Don't buy it because of the compression software, however. That overhyped capability is useless. The only thing I could find that it compressed more than 10% was a mostly-text database file. Jpgs don't compress at all (figured that), but I was surprised it couldn't compress TIFF and only slightly compressed MS Office files. Zip compresses about 2X more than the Sony compressor, on the DB file.
This is one of the first times I've been disappointed in a Sony product. My original Sony MicroVault 128-MB USB 1.0 would read/write at 1 MB, so I expected five years later they could do better than 5X on USB 2.0. On the other hand, you could fit at least 32 of these 4-GB MV Tiny's into the same space as my original MV, so that's about a 1,000X reduction (improvement) in volume per byte.
I'm keeping it, just because of the tiny factor.
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Sony Micro Vault Tiny USB Flash Drive
