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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 0.39 inches | | Product Width: | 0.39 inches | | Product Height: | 0.39 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.13 pounds | | Package Length: | 6.6 inches | | Package Width: | 4.4 inches | | Package Height: | 0.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 17 reviews |
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67 of 68 found the following review helpful:
 Good product, U3 features have a way to go Mar 02, 2006
By Ilya Tsymbal
"Sir Ilya T"
I've had this drive for a little under a week now. The USB stick design is fine, I guess - size comparable to any other USB drive. The cap fits nicely over the end of the drive while it's in use, so you don't have to keep track of it. This drive has a keychain loop on the drive itself, not the cap - you decide if that works for you or not. I carry mine on my keychain, so I would have preferred to have it on the cap. This way it would be easy to take it off the keychain. I've seen people complain about both of these design solutions. I think it would have been nice to make a keychain loop on both the drive and the cap - but nobody does that.
This drive is not supplied with a lanyard. I never thought anyone would want to carry it on their neck like a geek fashion accessory, but then I saw two different guys do that (both of them single).
Transfer rate is advertised as 6 mb/s read and 3 mb/s write. Subjectively, the read speed appears more than sufficient to run applications off the drive.
I have tried booting up the computer with the drive inserted, as one of the reviewers said would be the way to bypass security. It didn't work for me - the computer doesn't boot or Windows doesn't start up all the way with the drive inserted.
It's hard to write a review without mentioning the U3 feature, which was the primary reason why I bought the drive. I think the idea of having both data and applications always with you, wherever you go, is fantastic. I think that will be the way we see computers in the future - the PC being a 'dumb windows terminal' and your computer's identity being portable and disconnected from that - your settings, applications, data, bookmarks, etc. So I was eager to try this. I've installed just about all the applications that were available for free - and there are only a handful, as of March 06. They do work reasonably well - Firefox works great, Trillian too, Skype gave me some problems. But it's a very short list.
Then I discovered you don't need U3 at all - you can use any old USB drive as a portable applications drive.
There's a non-U3 Portable Firefox, and Open Office, and Thunderbird, and tons more. There are lots of applications that are quite happy being 'portable' - launchable off a USB drive and having their settings and configuration saved to their own folder instead of Windows registry. There's a huge - 6 page - list at www.portablefreeware.com and www.portableapps.com also has a bunch. There's a portable Start menu program that will run on any USB device - also free, from http://www.pegtop.net/start/.
There are also lots of other aware that isn't mentioned there, but will nun just fine in portable mode - Eudora, WinZip, UltraEdit, and lots of developer tools - Eclipse, MySQl, etc.
In conclusion, I think U3 is a great feature, but needs one thing - momentum, i.e. application support. It would also be super useful if they had the ability to run any old standalone app through their command center, not just the U3- packaged apps. That shouldn't stop you from running them using Pegtop's software, of course. Right now I'm thinking perhaps I should have opted to spend the money on extra capacity instead of the U3 function - I could have gotten a 2 GB conventional version instead of the 1gb U3-enabled one. Still, if you do want to get the U3 feature, I believe this drive is the best value.
23 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Nice Device, but Fatally Flawed Security Jan 30, 2006
By T. Bridgman
"mrtom2000"
I was pretty happy with this device overall, until I accidentally discovered that it is trivial to bypass the device's password protection.
The drive allows you to set a device password -- when you insert the drive, you must enter the password to access the programs or data. A minor annoyance is that the password prompt doesn't appear on my systems, forcing me to manually run the launcher. (In fairness, this might well be a Windows problem.) It performs well when plugged into a USB 2.0 port; tolerably well when plugged into a USB 1.0 port.
The fatal flaw, however, is that if I insert the drive *before* powering on my laptop, the drive is completely accessible without having to enter the password. It's still a handy device for enabling trackless computing on a strange computer, but if you're counting on the security to be, well, secure, this is not the device for you.
If the security weren't flawed, I would have given this four stars.
23 of 28 found the following review helpful:
 Beware Transfer Speeds of U3 Drives Nov 09, 2005
By Robert Salita
"Software Developer"
What's the data transfer speeds? The benefit of U3 Technology is that they can boot/run software directly from the drive so transfer rates are a really important spec. I want a really fast U3 device on BOTH read and write. As of this date, transfer speeds of U3 drives are so disappointing that drive manufacturers won't show them. The only specs I've found shows that initial drives are only 40x or 6MBs. Current non-U3 speeds are as high as 150x or 22MBs. We need to know read and write speeds before buying!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Kingston's Perfect Smart Drive Nov 10, 2006
By W. R. Theuer
"Ice Cold"
This is an amazing little device. I carry every Word and Excel file I have created in the last year on this device. How remarkable is that? Kingston really had a better profile than other thumb drives. I still have my clip cap after several months. I carry it with me daily.
The really powerful potential for these devices is yet to be realised but I'm thinking about them! Let me know how you are using yours.
In addition to my data files, I downloaded applications giving my flash drive the power to accomplish tasks on its own. Overall, I am happy with my drive and believe as you think of new ways to employ one you will be too. I give this device a big thumb's up!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
If I lost it.....I would buy another!!! Dec 24, 2006
By D. Nolan
"kids dad"
I have had this for 3 months and to me it is the best thing since sliced bread. With the purchased Roboform software, that remembers ALL my passwords and fills in forms with my personel info with ONE click. I use this many times a day and it does take some extra effort to eject, but it is a great reminder to be sure all your files are finished downloading. In todays world where programers make you use different password requirements, it is great to have all these in one safe place. The security is excellent, you need to only remember one password, the unit has a built in time-out feature for added security. I tried to test the security "flaw" by booting with it in....still asked for password!!
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