SandDisk Cruzer 4GB USB Flash Drive

I currently have a couple of flash drives that I use at work but I found that they weren't going to be useful with a recent job I working on. I was needing to transfer a very large file (1.3GB) between two computers and the largest flash I had was a 1GB PNY drive. For this job I needed to borrow a much larger capacity flash drive, so I went to my boss and asked to borrow his flash drive so I could complete my current task.

The drive that he let me borrow was a 4GB drive which would more than handle my large file. I got to looking at the drive more closely and saw that it was a SanDisk Mini-Cruzer 4GB. They aren't kidding when they call it a micro drive, it is barely 2 inches long and ¾ inches wide and ¼ inches thick and light as a feather. It is all black in color with the exception of the white translucent thumb slide which is used to extend and retract the USB connector from inside the case. The thumb slide lights up when the drive is plugged into the USB port. It eliminated the need for a cap over the end which could easily be lost.

SanDisk included a lanyard with a quick disconnect clip on the end of the lanyard so if have it around your neck you don't have to remove the lanyard to plug the drive into your computer. You simply unhook the disconnect and detach it from the lanyard and you can plug it into any open USB port.

I used to think that the 1GB USB flash drive that I had was going to be fine for me for quite some time, but I found out that isn't the case. I guess I will be requesting one of these 4GB drives so I won't have to borrow my bosses for the next time I need to transfer large files.

If you have never used a flash drive before they are pretty easy to operate, all you do is plug it into an open USB slot and Windows will identify the device as a removable drive and it will place two new drive letters in Windows Explorer folder and they will be labels E:/ and F:/ . The E:/ driver is the U3 installed program that is included with the drive and it is supposed to allow you to download transportable versions of some of your programs that you have installed on your desktop to allow you to carry files to another computer that may not have all of the programs you have installed on your computer. I can talk much about it since it involves buy and downloading the transportable version of the software if it is available. The F:/ is identified as a removable drive and it is the actual flash drive. Once the drive letter is available all you have to do copy files to the F:/ drive and it will automatically copy the files to the flash drive. My speed test of the drive came when I was trying to copy a 1.33GB file from one computer to another. The file transfer took less than two minutes from one computer to the flash drive and less than two minutes to the other computer. So less than five minutes I was able to transfer a 1.33GB file from one computer to another.

I would recommend this drive to anyone looking for a flash drive and at $40.00 you can't go wrong no matter how large of a drive you might be looking for.