Driverless USB powered. No external power, or battery needed
DataBackup Function: Backup, Restore and Synchronize your Data using the JetFlash® Elite Software
Easy Plug and Play installation
Product Review
Amazon.com Product Description
Transcend and Amazon.com have teamed up to offer this item in Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging, a recyclable, easy-to-open alternative to traditional packaging. A Frustration-Free Package comes without excess packaging materials such as wire ties, hard plastic "clamshell" casings, and plastic bindings. It’s designed to be opened without the use of a box cutter or knife and will protect your product just as well as traditional packaging. This item ships in its own box, without the need for an additional shipping box, and Amazon.com is continuing to work with manufacturers to make the packaging even more streamlined.
Product Description
Transcend JetFlash V30 features a curved, ultra-compact body (60mm x 16.5mm x 8.1mm) and only weighs 7g. Its color scheme is simple and elegant, being almost completely black with a splash of color around its cap. With eight full gigabytes of storage capacity and renowned Transcend build quality at down-to-earth prices, the V30 represents a new standard in value. The extra storage space allows you store a whole lot more of your personal files, documents from work, digital photos, movies and music on a flash drive smaller than your finger. Never worry about running out of space again! The JetFlash V30 comes bundled with Transcendâ??s incredibly useful JetFlash elite software package. JetFlash elite focuses on the needs of frequent computer users and is specifically developed to help manage your data and increase productivity. The JetFlash elite includes eight handy functions: AutoLogin, PC-Lock, Mobile Favorites, Secret-Zip encryption, Mobile E-mail, DataBackup, Online Update and the My JetFlash browser.
Comment: This drive seems to require special drivers to work with Windows. I don't know what else could be the cause of constant "write protection" errors.
I've tried all the solutions suggested online, including the mFormat utility that wipes all data from the drive, and I still can't save anything to it.
Their support site is useless. It's tedious to browse through the documentation, and requesting support requires filling out a form with dozens of irrelevant fields.
I'm never buying a Transcend product again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: not sure how fast "fast" is... 2010-03-01
Comment: I bought a 16gig V30 (purple trim) over a month ago, and after reading people's comments here, I've been cautious about not using it for critical information. So far it's fine and hasn't glitched on me yet. I must say that it's not overly sturdy and feels like it could be broken - like if sat on the wrong way?
Still, It's worked fine for me, and I even installed a bootable Linux on it for fun & to see if it would work. Was much faster than running Linux off a "live cdrom" - but that's not saying much for those who understand the reference.
Speedwise, for reading, it benchmarked (hdtune 2.55) -
13-14MB per sec at 64k block size reads
1.7-1.9MB per sec at 1k block size reads
I have a much older 500meg CMB usb stick, and it's 15MB/sec and 4MB/sec, respectively. Not an awful lot faster. Sorry, I didn't do any write tests, and it has a non-windows File System on it for a bit longer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: This device is simply the best. And really hard to kill. 2010-02-10
Comment: Bought this guy two weeks ago.
Its full of advantages.
Size: width of usb cable, fits everywhere
Speed, capacity, no need to install.
The only disadvantage is anavoidable: its easy to loose. But, due to black color, esy to find, for example at snow or sand.
And also its really robust, and almost impossible to kill. Mine spend a night in the snow in the parking lot, then in the morning was overridden by couple of cars and spend time until noon in a puddle of mixture of water and show-melt chemical agent. After washing, wiping and staying in the room for an hour it found working without problems. Just a few scratches on plastic surface.
Resume: nothing compares to products from transcend.
Guys from Kingston and SanDisk should think about goung out of the business and switch to something less challenging.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great little flash drive. Awesome price! 2010-02-08
Comment: The best buy you will find for a flash drive is not at Best Buy. It's at Amazon. This is a great flash drive with super ease of use. I like how Transcend color codes them, too, so that they are a little easier to track down.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Small and Light 2010-02-01
Comment: This is a really small unit. Its so small and light that i forget that i have it some times. Like someone else said, I was also surprised at how small it was. The case and polished black and really sleek looking. My package didnt come with a lanyard tho, so i cant comment on that. It does transfer slightly slower than i would have expected.
I've tried all the solutions suggested online, including the mFormat utility that wipes all data from the drive, and I still can't save anything to it.
Their support site is useless. It's tedious to browse through the documentation, and requesting support requires filling out a form with dozens of irrelevant fields.
I'm never buying a Transcend product again.