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(54 customer reviews) 20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Good for the Price,
February 19, 2011 simonb530 - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Verbatim 16 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive 97275 (Blue) (Personal Computers)
I have had a verbatim (Red - 8gb) flash drive (http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Store-Flash-ReadyBoost-96317/dp/B0018DJIUG/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top) for over 4yrs and have had no problems. I decided to buy a bigger flash drive so I bought the 16gb at $23.99 (FYI it actually has 14.9gb to use which I believe it is normal), which I have had for a couple days. I have two main slight disappointments. One being the flash drive doesn't blink when in use. This might be a flaw with my device. Also it is a lot slower than my Red verbatim flash drive. I haven't done it exact testing, but between two types of transfer:
Transfer 1: Several (~115 mb total) small files (~34kb) it took the blue flash drive almost 35 mins compare to my red one which took 5 mins. (This file transfer was an exacting process as well)
Transfer 2: Several movie files (700 mb about 2.1gb) it took the blues flash drive almost 20 mins compare to my red one which took 5 mins
When I purchased the...Read more
28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Great flash drive for the price and how it handles,
November 21, 2010 Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Verbatim 8 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive 97088 (Blue) (Personal Computers)
I was needing a flash drive quick when I lost all my others, and found this on the listings. I had a 4 GB Red Verbatim flash drive before with good experiences with that. I bought this in the afternoon and thanks to Amazon Prime, had it a couple of days later. This drive is definitely durable since I'm a college student in technology classes, so this thing gets tossed around, plugged in and out at multiple various times during the day. It also always travels with me in my pocket, and no matter what has happened to my jeans, be they wet or dry, this thing stays kickin. One of the high points of this flash drive is the sliding mechanism. As you can see by the picture, the flash drive slides back into the casing when not being used. This allows it to stay compact while keeping the ending clean and clear. This mechanism is sturdy and you know it will stay open or closed. They didn't cheap out on the casing.
Overall, for the price and the storage it's a great buy that can't...Read more
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
It's a thumb drive ;-),
October 26, 2010 Eric Ruck "NearChaos" (Ellicott City, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Verbatim 16 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive 97275 (Blue) (Personal Computers)
There are still two reasons to buy this thumb drive over other choices. First, it's pretty cheap. They're more or less all the same on the inside, and they're all made in China, so there's not a lot differentiating the guts. Sometimes some cheap ones can be slow, doesn't seem to be the case here. Worked fine on a MacBook Pro and a Vista laptop.
Second, the loop at the end is big enough to hook into a keyring, which is exactly what I want it for. I have it clipped inside my backpack where it's always handy but not in danger of accidentally falling out.
