Verbatim TUFF 'N' TINY 16 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive 97168 (Black)

I've had my Verbatim Store 'n' Go Micro 8GB drive for over six months (I bought it before they renamed it TUFF 'N' TINY) and haven't had any problems with it. It has been a reliable, sturdy, and fast storage device, and looks great on my keychain. It's always fun when I plug it in someone else's computer and they go "What the heck is that?" "Did you say EIGHT gig?" "Must've been expensive!"

I was a little worried about buying from a brand name that is not necessarily trusted in the field of flash memory, but my fears were allayed when I plugged it in for the first time and it identified itself as a "Kingston Store 'n' Go", which leads me to believe this device is the product of some collaboration between Kingston and Verbatim, or is an entirely Kingston product that has simply been purchased and rebranded by Verbatim. Either way, I feel better about the device knowing Kingston's name is associated with it in some way.

Just for kicks, I recently ran my drive...Read more

I'm afraid I have the same story as several of the reviews below. I've had the drive for a few months and now its dead. No activity when its plugged into several different computers. Disk Utilities on Windows, Mac and Linux don't even see the drive. It has become a tiny paperweight I'm afraid. Which is sad because if it had held up, I'd really have loved the thing. It's a great size and I like the SIP setup. I can actually stay on keychain. Of course, if its dead or I can't trust it to not make data disappear what good is is?

Edit - June 20, 2011:

I suppose that since my review is now one of the most helpful I should update it to tell where the story went from here. After the frustration of the first drive dropping dead, I read through the reviews here which noted it had a lifetime warranty. So I emailed Verbatim and got a RMA email. I taped this drive to the letter and mailed it off. A few weeks later I received a brand new drive. It has been...Read more

I really should have listened to the negative reviews.

I work on both a Mac and a PC (windows nt & vista). It's 6am and I've spent a few minutes getting about 2Gb of documents together to work on at the office on my pc and was MID transfer when the tuff-n-tiny suddenly ejected itself.

This has absolutely never happened to me before. No, it didn't get jostled, there wasn't an earthquake, the flash drive was in my laptop and I was looking at the transfer progress waiting for the estimated time to process. everything was absolutely still--and voila, self eject complete with warning message that a device had been improperly removed.

I then actually removed the drive from the computer, reinserted it now I get the error message 'The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer'.

I've had it opened and out of the package for all of 10 minutes. And already-a major issue.

update--thought i'd reformat the drive on...Read more