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13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
affordable fast usb driveSep 10, 2008
By Psycho I get 27MB/s read speed and 19MB/s write speed which means it is actually faster than expected. The sliding retractable connector is my favorite part because no cap can ever be lost. It is enhanced for Windows® Vista(tm) ReadyBoost(tm) and includes U3 software. Data encryption is also available. It is very handy and the included leather pouch can be attached to a keyring or lanyard. I'm very satisfied with it.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Great speed, wish is was smallerNov 30, 2008
By Paul S. Okstad I bought this to run Ubuntu 8.10 on. It installed faster than other flash drives I have tried. Ubuntu ran very smoothly from it, even though I enabled home directory encryption. The only gripes about it that I have are: (1) It's very large compared to SanDisk's TItanium (2) Sometimes it's hard to open and close it. It would have been very helpful if it came with a short extension cord, I am sometimes afraid that due to it's weight it will fall out of the USB port, or due to it's length I might hit it loose.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Great product, needed a better lanyardNov 17, 2008
By Tommy Grundy The SanDisk SDCZ8-016G-A75 16GB Cruzer Contour is a great product. I immediately replaced the lanyard. The pros: are it's huge, 16 Gig provided all the room I need to carry important programs and documents anywhere I go.
The Cons: The Cruzer will close while inserting the unit into a PC if you press the back of the unit and not the steel case; this a a bit picky and I've gotten used to the problem but one machine I worked on had only rear facing USB ports.. I was just about to boot the PC before I got the Cruzer plugged in.
Finally, the unit should come with a small USB port extender, the unit is a bit larger that most and it can be hard to get the unit into a tight place, one of those 3 inch extension cords would be great. I had one from a previous SanDisk product.
19 of 27 found the following review helpful:
Sandisk Contour 16gbJul 23, 2008
By John M. Bryant, Inc.
"Georgia Appraisal School"
I just received my 16gb Sandisk Contour replacing my loaded 8gb Sandisk Cruzer. From experience using the 8gb Contour, I knew that it would be much larger than my Cruzer, somewhat unwieldy because of the ill-conceived retractable cap, and inconvenient because of the lack of an easily identifiable colorful lanyard. I needed speed however, and current reviews of earlier versions of the Contour and my previous experience indicated that this thing was fast. I could put up with the other shortcomings for a significant speed increase. Here are the results of my first tests.
Using Second Copy (simple copy) and my 8gb cruzer I copied 4.28gb of various small files (6,597 in all) both to each USB drive and from each to the hard drive.
Upload time -- Cruzer -- 26.5 minutes (2.69 mb/sec)
Upload time -- Contour - 22.0 minutes (3.24 mb/sec)
Download time -- Cruzer -- 5.5 minutes (13.0 mb/sec)
Download time -- Contour - 5.5 minutes (13.0 mb/sec)
I have no idea where I got the idea that the Contour was faster than the Cruzer but it was basically a dead heat.
To be fair, a backup (upload) of changed files (50 in all, size unknown) was done in 1.5 minutes using the Cruzer and 1.1 minutes using the Contour. Is the speed difference only noticable when synchronizing a small group of files?
If anyone can enlighten me, I would appreciate it.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
It's fast and I love it!May 04, 2010
By RunAmok
"RunAmok"
I've tried several brands of flash drive, and the Cruzer Countour is the fastest one I've found. Unlike many other cheaper brands which won't advertise their speed, this Contour works as advertised and is what I needed to transfer large files without falling asleep in the process. While opening and closing the device takes a little getting used to, it's nice to be able to forget about losing the cap.
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