Editorial Review:Product Description:JetFlashV10 is a tiny flash drive with stylish design and outstanding performance. The JetFlashV10's special capless design uses a sliding USB, which protects the connector from damage when not in use. Its classic design includes a hook and a neck strap for convenience and to prevent loss, making the device easier to remove from a USB port.
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Average Rating:
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Amazing.
Good looking flash drive.
Sturdy construction.
Great performance for an 8GB flash drive.
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Stocking stuffers for the little ones (a temporary fix)
This flash drive's speed is slightly slower than my lower capacity Kingston and Sandisk Titanium flash drives but acceptable. The construction is definitely worse than the Sandisk and flimsier even than the Kingston lightweight. The problems are related not to performance but construction: 1st, after a couple of months I was unable to insert the drive into a USB port without the slightest pressure causing the USB male insert to retract back into the case. Finally, I was reduced to gripping the male head itself while simultaneously trying to insert it (I considered permanently epoxying it in "out," or extended, position). 2nd, the other end of the bar, with a thin, plastic framework serving as a pass-through for key chains, lasted all of 4 months before cracking (not an uncommon occurrence with many of these drives). At least I saved my keys.
What do they do with these flimsy, weightless novelties in the countries that construct them--dispense them in Cracker Jack boxes and gum ball machines? If wages are on the upswing in China and inflation is around the bend, I certainly hope the higher prices bring better materials and workmanship.
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Well-suited for backups, not recommended as an additional, permanent 'drive'
If you are looking for great I/O speed, this is not what you need. If you need to take on the road something other than mostly static documents, that may require lots of disk read/writes, you are much better off with a small USB hard drive which could fit nicely inside your laptop bag or you may could get a faster flash drive for a few extra dollars.
Compared with the equivalent (in price and storage) Kingston 8GB DataTraveler USB flash drive - High Speed USB, this one's advantage is that the USB connector is retractable, thus protecting it. This is does not mean much to me but, if you are going to carry it in your pocket, you could mark it as an advantage. However, it's a 'moving part' so you need to keep that in mind when deciding which one you prefer.
My evaluation:
- You will be happy if you used this for making multiple backups of very important data.
- You will be disappointed if you used it as an extra disk drive for your computer or laptop.
I own several 4GB and 8GB flash drives and they are all serving me well - I use them mainly for backups. These little devices are well suited for data that requires gigabytes of storage and it would be catastrophic to lose such as our family albums of which we have several thousands pictures already and, as the camera resolutions increase, require more storage per frame. I am maintaining several (3) backups which I keep in separate locations because we have 3 kids and we don't want to lose everything following some unforeseen event.
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VERY SLOW
This USB flash drive may be cheap, but it is also very slow, especially for one so big. If you need to carry an incredible amount of data with you that you hardly ever access and almost never change, then this might be for you. But, for the average user, the manufacturer says: System Performance Read 10 MB/sec Write 2 MB/sec. This is very slow, compared to any modern high-performance drive. My OCZ Rally2 4GB has an impressive 23.8MB/s average read speeds, 14.8MB/s write speeds. The Corsair Flash Voyager GT is even faster at read speed of 33.8MB/s. So buyer beware!
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jekyll and hyde drive
This drive has a very attractive capacity-price point quality. The amazon price is even lower than the "wholesale price" that I paid for the same item at an educators' vendor display booth. When I first tried out this drive, I was extremely disappointed. I wanted to back up a folder containing over 3,000 files using nearly 1.3 GB of memory. The transfer rate was around 2.3MB/sec and it took over 9 mins. to do the backup. Obviously there was something wrong. I emailed transcend tech support (and have yet to receive a reply after several days). I had plugged the drive both into a hub and directly to my desktop PC, with the same slow results each time. I recently plugged the flash drive into a late-model laptop, and the results were like night and day. I got true USB 2.0 performance and was able to transfer the same 1.3GB worth of files on the flash drive to the laptop in about one minute. Curious, I re-plugged the flash drive into my desktop PC (via hub), and backed up a 67MB folder. This time I got USB 2.0 performance again, and did the transfer in about 40 seconds. I can't explain the Jekyll-Hyde performance of this flash drive, but I can see why the reviews of this drive are almost evenly split between poor and excellent. I'm assuming it has something to do with the computer properly reading the drive. The rating I am giving this drive is based on its USB2.0 performance, and the fact that it has a "lifetime warranty" though I am disappointed at the so-far nonexistent support from Transcend. Transcend doesn't have the "name" in the U.S. market as other memory manufacturers, and it seems memory and flash drives have become commodity items lately. I have seen name-brand 2GB USB flash drives on sale at retail stores for from $10-15. With this 8GB Transcend drive, you are getting four times that capacity at from only a little more to less than double the retail price of a 2GB drive. Memory prices are one of the few things that you can get a real deal on these days.