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• SanDisk 8GB Cruzer Micro U3 USB Flash Drive

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  $25.95 - $72.01
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  1 Star Review

  Reviewed by: miked0110

  Updated:10-24-08

  Duration of ownership:6 Months

  Strengths: Holds lots of data, retractable design. Inexpesive.

  Weaknesses: Frequently fails to load or gets hot (physically) and loses connection. Difficult to get reconnected. Slow.

  Overall Evaluation: Don't waste your time. Cheap price reflects the quality.

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  1 Star Review

  Reviewed by: uniquk80

  Updated:08-08-08

  Duration of ownership:3 Years

  Strengths: highest price

  Weaknesses: bad quality,bad storage,bad design

  Overall Evaluation: if you want best usb flash drive with best price,just visit our factory website :http://www.uniquk.com

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  1 Star Review

  Reviewed by: krozinov

  Updated:12-11-08

  Duration of ownership:2 Years

  Strengths: Nothing really. For those that say capacity, there's tons of other ones out there that have as much and more capacity.

  Weaknesses: Very slow writes and loss of data

  Overall Evaluation: First off, this is my 3rd and last SanDisk USB drive I will ever buy. They're pretty cheap and that's probably why they suck so much. Let me explain...FYI, I never use their U3 software. I just use the drive as a backup drive.I started off with the 1GB, moved on to 2GB, and now have the 4GB model. All 3 were very slow at writing. Imagine sitting in your office backing up your data and waiting for hours at the end of the day. Extremely irritating.The first 2 I had both crashed and lost data, never to be recovered again. Imagine losing your photos and work documents. Good thing I made backups to CDs.And yes, I made sure that the USB drive was optimized for performance (in Windows hardware properties). Made very little difference in writing. I would recommend Verbatim USB drives. They've never failed me yet, and they're fast.

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  1 Star Review

  Reviewed by: PGelsman

  Updated:10-28-08

  Duration of ownership:2 Months

  Strengths: Capacity

  Weaknesses: size, won't play DVD movies, slow copy, flimsy

  Overall Evaluation: I've had this for a few months now. I rarely use it as it's too much of a hassle. The connector doesn't fit perfectly into 2 of my USB ports on my desktop, and 1 on my laptop, it goes in at an angle. Everytime I try to copy files to it, I get errors. The software that it comes with sucks too!Don't waste your $$$ with this POS, buy something else.

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  2 Star Review

  Reviewed by: viszla7

  Updated:10-16-08

  Duration of ownership:3 Weeks

  Strengths: Large capacity

  Weaknesses: Slow

  Overall Evaluation: I can't believe how slow mine is. It has taken over 45 minutes to write a 1 gig file. I had hopes that I would be able to transport image files from work to home on this flash drive and not have to write discs all of the time, but I find I am waiting constantly for the Cruzer 8 GB to write. I will have to chalk this one up to experience and NEVER buy one again.

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  5 Star Review

  Reviewed by: yellokondi

  Updated:09-19-08

  Duration of ownership:4 Weeks

  Strengths: Large capacity, fast I/O operations.

  Weaknesses: A little bit shaky plastic cover.

  Overall Evaluation: As I mentioned above, strengths and weaknesses, this product is quite fast in I/O operations but the manufacturing of a product lacks quality. Plastic is shaky and it gives a user a feeling it is going to break pretty soon. Other than that, I would definitely recommend that flash drive to anyone.

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  5 Star Review

  Reviewed by: nitinsalgar

  Updated:07-28-08

  Duration of ownership:50 Days

  Strengths: Has U3 system that can hold applications

  Weaknesses: None

  Overall Evaluation: The product worked great (as advertised)Excellent value for money.I have been Using 1Gb and 2gb ones. Now I got rid of those with an 8GB one.I wish it could be 16GB, but well worth the price

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  4 Star Review

  Reviewed by: schsv

  Updated:03-24-08

  Duration of ownership:3 Months

  Strengths: Retractable USB connector, small size yet with a large capacity

  Weaknesses: Plastic case

  Overall Evaluation: This drive works in all my PCs under Windows XP and Linux environments. Read and write speed is about average. Its USB connector is retractable so that one does not have to look for missing cap any more. However, the case of the drive is made of cheap plastic. It may not survive with certain impacts.

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  2 Star Review

  Reviewed by: boogerboy

  Updated:03-05-08

  Duration of ownership:22 Days

  Strengths: Reasonable form factor, reasonable price

  Weaknesses: U3 nightmare.

  Overall Evaluation: The U3 software cost me at least $100 worth of time to understand and remove and crashed one of my computers. Another computer still has traces of that nightmare on it. I would not buy another device with U3 on it even though I now know how to deal with it. It just isn't worth the trouble. I would rather pay $20 bucks more for a device without it.

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  5 Star Review

  Reviewed by: mrjoel

  Updated:02-16-08

  Duration of ownership:3 Days

  Strengths: Large capacity, fast read/write speed, nice and compact

  Weaknesses: U3, Not intended for the roughest of users

  Overall Evaluation: This is a great flash drive for what it is. It isn't indestructible, it's not designed for that. With the USB plug sliding inside however, it is plenty sturdy for average used.The read and write speeds of the drive are quite decent, not the fastest, but quite good for the price range.SanDisk, in its wisdom, chooses to preload all the U3 software goodness on the drive. I recommend the first thing to do is to fully remove the U3 from the drive - it will add about 200MB to the drive capacity. If you need the apps, look at portableapps.com

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SanDisk 8GB Cruzer Micro U3 USB Flash Drive

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