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32 of 34 found the following review helpful:
Excellent high capacity flash driveMar 08, 2008
By Jerry Saperstein I own several of these devices. They are well designed, with the USB connector retracting into the body. The loop at the end is strong and will not break easily when carried in your pocked on a keychain.(Be sure to use the little ring included with the package to attach it.)
Read and write speeds are adequate. Some people have claimed that this particular unit is slow. I don't really understand what they are talking about. I routinely transfer several gigabytes of data to one of these units and it doesn't appear to take an unseemly amount of time. One has to wonder if the complainers aren't overlooking some other factors, such as a problem with the Windows copy process which is inherently flawed and that I never use for transferring large amounts of data or a great number of files. You are much better off using BeyondCompare or any number of other utilities for such tasks.
These devices often to on sale, so you might be well served being patient and waiting for such a sale.
Overall, I think these are terrific bargains and absolutely great for transporting significant amounts of data.
Jerry
41 of 46 found the following review helpful:
Different silicon inside - Don't buyApr 07, 2007
By Ari Goldstein I was impressed with the previous 2Gig transcend model 110. I bought this one, thinking that it was going to be just as quick.
I was wrong. It is horrible with writes. 8GB models are a different technology from the 2Gigs models and probably the 4GB, too.
I am going to stick with SanDisk 4GB Titanium until I can find a review showing that 8GB devices are worthy. I think Transcend is a fine company, but they release leading edge products that should remain in the Q&A labs.
I will call them and see if I can get a replacement or credit.
23 of 28 found the following review helpful:
Very SlowJul 24, 2007
By Steve S Of course the drive has large capacity. But it is the SLOWEST USB 2.0 flash drive I have ever used. It took over 2 hours to transfer 4 GB of small photo files from my hard drive to the JetFlash, with no other applications running in the computer
16 of 19 found the following review helpful:
Terribly slow usb driveOct 25, 2007
By Greg Weir
"StrathspeyTime"
I purchased one of these in April 2007 to replace my SanDisk 4GB U3 Cruzer that would not work with Vista. While the Transcend 8GB JetFlash V10 does work with Vista, it writes exceedingly slowly. I benchmarked the two Flash drives and came up with the following (Cruzer followed by V10):
Overall, the read speeds are comparable, but the write speed on the V10 is significantly slower. Slow enough in fact, that the V10 is not fast enough to support Vista's ReadyBoost although at least it works as a Flash Drive in Vista while the older U3 Cruzer doesn't work at all with Vista (newer U3 Cruzers are Vista compatible - be sure the firmware is recent).
13 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Slow as mud. Don't buy for multimedia use.Mar 16, 2008
By Timothy S. Hedrick
"Tim à Paris"
I purchased one of these about a year ago. The price for an 8MB Flash Drive looked like a fantastic deal at that time. The cliche "You get what you pay for" now comes to mind. I have owned at least six different USB drives over the last three years and this is by FAR the slowest of any of these many times over. 8MB is a lot of storage, but it takes FOREVER to write large files to this drive. I would strongly urge anyone considering this drive to spend the extra money for a faster high capacity drive if you will be copying large files to the drive on a regular basis. I regret trying to save money with this drive. It's really that slow.
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