usb drives

I've had one of these for a few months, it's great, a million times better than floppy disks. I work in an IT department and recommend it to at least one person a week who is looking for a way to move files that are too large to move on a floppy disk. The thing fits in your pocket, doesn't use up much space and works easily on Win2k or WinXP. For Win98se you need to install drivers.

Comes with a handy file lock switch so that you can't write to the drive or delete file... same idea as the write protect on a floppy.

The only bad thing, the caps for the drive are not that durable and are a little small and easy to lose. That said, you get 3 of them.

If you are still using floppy drives... rip that out of your machine and buy one of these.

I have had this device for about a week, and it has been very useful to me, with no problems accessing data.

However, there are a couple of points that I would like to mention...

The packaging for the device stated that data encrypting software was included. I did not find any software included with my device, and so had to download it from the Sandisk website. It's only a small download, I have to admit, but Sandisk shouldn't say that something is included in the box, if it isn't!

The other thing I noticed is that although the device is a 256MB drive, this is not the actual amount of data I am able to store as there is some space allocated for formatting. This appears to be 3MB per 64MB of storage, so in this case 12MB is used, resulting in there being 244MB left for my data.

This might not be too much of a problem for most users, but it's something to bear in mind if you are expecting to be able to move files that are slightly larger than 244MB, for instance!

I have had one of these for about 3 years, and in that three years I have had Zero problems with it. It is fast, easy to use, Windows auto detects it and installes the necessary drivers, and it is small enough for my applications.