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Question

A little disappointed about my new Sandisk Cruzer 2.0 flash

Oct 26, 2011 1:21PM PDT

I have some questions about a Sandisk Cruzer portable flash drive I recently bought. I bought it because I thought it was a good price ($14.88 or something for 8 GB). I just tried it out today though and I like it except for how slow it is. I tested it and seen that to put like 500 MB - 1 GB of data or so on it and it took like over an hour to finish and putting about 5 GB of data on it took about 4 hours.

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Protect you from what?
Oct 26, 2011 1:49PM PDT

You didn't tell. We know that it's useless against most governments and we also know that one glitch and the files are usually lost.

What good is this?

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Data transfer
Oct 27, 2011 12:32AM PDT

The transfer rate seems pretty normal for a 2.0 GB USB device. IF you want faster transfer(s) to an external source then I would suggest uprading to USB 3.O or ESATA in the system and using an external drive that is capable of running USB 3.0 or ESATA.

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It all depends...
Oct 30, 2011 9:00PM PDT

If you don't know about USB 2.0, then basically you need to know, check out USB standards. Offhand, using encryption is going to take time. Since, I don't use such, a 1gb xfer of data takes seconds to do on my PC. Also, you gave no details of your PC, if by chance you're using a USB 1.1 port, that will slow things down too. You may just want to return the Cruzer flash drive and get a std. one if all you want is store data. As already mentioned to you, if you lose the password and/or its gets corrupted any recovery is going to be hard pressed to retrieve encrypted data to un-encypt, the whole 9yds. Any need for protection, is up to you to what degree and here you need to review what makes you happy because I don't know your needs. If you're trying to protect items like banking info, that should suffice under normal circumstances.

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Oh ok well...
Oct 31, 2011 4:29AM PDT

Well my computer is fairly new with windows 7 on it and Intel i3 or whatever so I don't think that would be the problem as to why its so slow. Also I'm not sure if I can return it now since its been over 2 weeks ago since I bought it and since I already now opened it to try it out. I basically wanted a flash drive so it would be easier and faster to transfer data but this sort of ain't the case. I still like it but I really hate how it's so slow but I guess that's because it uses software to encrypt it but I don't know much about that stuff so I don't know. I guess that's why though.

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Costs
Nov 4, 2011 1:53AM PDT

Around here, the $1 stores offers 8Gb of flash drives for around $10. These are the basic storage flash drives, so at these prices, you could try a different and see the difference. There always seems to be a sale on flash drives somewhere locally, but online as well and possibility free s/h. good luck -----Willy Happy