Sony MicroVault Plus USB 2.0 Flash Drive 2GB with Virtual Expander USM2GJ

my other flash drives didn't work , not compatible

SanDisk 2 GB Cruzer Titanium ( SDCZ7-2048-A10, Retail Package)This was necessary to use when I converted from Milleneum system to Vista. I did not have a writeable CD. It worked well. The package is impossible to open.

Very compact, easy to use item. I have had no problems whatsoever with this. I can transfer large files quickly to it, and it opens them quickly. I highly recommend this to anyone needing this size of flash drive.

I bought 2 of these at the same time. They are JUNK! I thought it would be cool to have them with a retractable USB connector. Wrong. You go to push it in and is retracts automatically so you're fighting with it to plug it in. In addition within 2 months they both failed. My Dell and IBM Thinkpad could recognize them, but my HP laptop couldn't. Strange.Don't buy these, get a quality product.

I transfer data between my home PC (6 month old laptop with dual core Pentium) and an iMac G5 running on OS X in my office. The Sony microvault is SOOO slow, a problem that is frequent, which I blame on the automatic compression software that comes on the drive. The drive compresses/uncompresses files constantly so no wonder it is slow; another wrote about the same issues so this problem isn't isolated.I typically transfer about 15MB on average ONTO the drive and this takes about 2 minutes. I recently timed a 17MB transfer onto the drive -- over 3 minutes but less than 4 minutes. Pathetic. Getting files off of the drive doesn't seem to be too slow but still slower than other (and cheaper) drives I've used. I actually reserve extra time between leaving my office and catching the bus to ensure I can transfer all my revised files each day as a back-up and so I can continue working at home.I can burn my data onto a CD-RW about as fast as I can put it onto this flash drive. That's absurd. I got a drive so I wouldn't need to take so much time to backup/transfer files. My only gain with the drive is that it is smaller than a CD.Update: still working (4/6/09). Speed hasn't been an issue lately -- I wish I could explain why. I'm working on the same two computers and with the same file types. Given that I actually timed the downloads with a watch, I'll still stand behind my earlier statements that this drive can be painfully slow. I'm also now thinking of getting in the market for a new drive since I'd like more memory.Update: May 2010.I am done with this drive... right now the expected transfer time for 1.3GB of data is over 30 minutes and it has already been loading for about 15 minutes. Not buying a Sony drive again! The good news is that it never died or lost files but I just don't have the time to wait for dinosaur-like write times. I'm looking at the Sandisk Cruzer models for my next drive, probably a 16 GB drive.

it looks good... but it was for a friend of mine that i broke when i stepped on it by accidently...

first of all, the main picture is correct, but the pictures in the "from the manufacturer" section are incorrect -- they are for the "tiny" version of this flash drive. dimensions on this page are also incorrect: actual flash drive is approx 2.5" long (USB connector not extended) by 3/4" wide by 1/4" thick. very light. feels a little flimsy but frankly pretty normal build for most flash drives. nice simple, sleek design.this drive has a retractable USB connector. i actually prefer caps because the drives with retractable connectors don't really protect the tip from lint, etc but i understand the convenience of not losing caps.i can't comment on relative speed vs other drives, but it's certainly faster than indicated by some of the posts here. when i got the drive, i removed the compression software and did an NTFS full format. attached to a computer with USB 2.0, it performed as follows on a couple misc tests (apologies for not doing real benchmarking, but that would've been too much work -- the below are just some random files):4 files, 11.3MB:write to microvault: approx 5 secondsread from microvault: approx 2 seconds311 files, 208MB:write to microvault: approx 4.5 minsread from microvault: approx 70 secsi am not a techie, but i assume the # of files (not just the size of the files) has a material impact on the transfer speed. 99% of my usage will be like the first sample above (small # of files, approx 10MB), since i would just burn a CD/DVD if i was transferring a large # of files or amount of data. for tranferring 10-20MB at a time, this flash drive seems plenty fast (as measured by my personal annoyance-at-waiting meter).

I've had this drive for quite a while and it has been great. I love the retracting end (I bent my last one). It is big enough for files carried back and forth to the office, but if you need to backup a lot of files, it is too small. The one thing I don't like is the fact that I can't attach it to my key ring. It has a very small opening to attach a ring but too small for my keyring. Since I can't attach to my key ring, it goes in my pocket which makes it easy to lose or forget about. It actually went through the washing machine with a load of clothes and it still works great!