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★★★★☆
Great USB storage device with a minor flaw in its design.
Pros: As a portable USB storage device, this works perfectly. Read/Write speeds are as advertised and formatting it to work with your operating system is a breeze and takes very little time. Mounting it the first time resulted in no response from the OS, but who knows, maybe I didn't plug it in correctly? However, it's been working fine since. This aspect of the USB drive works perfectly now.
It is built extremely well and I feel that it's dust/shock resistance is a real statement to it's build quality - I believe it after dropping my keys with this thing attached quite a few times. Nothing seems cheap about the construction, considering the price, however the laser-etched logo on one side is a tad blurry, not that you want to be staring at a logo while using it. It serves its purpose as branding and if this is what helps keeps a great product like this stay cheap, by all means, keep doing it. Faster read/write performance would be a key area of interest for me.
Cons: Now to a negative, and the only negative: it's keychain functionality. Unless you have a perfect circle (and I DON'T mean the keychain's loop that from its construction, I mean the actual width of metal going through the loop of the USB drive), it stands up right and will not move unless you move it to a thinner part of the ring. It can make for uncomfortable juggling your keys in your pocket, as well as sometimes even making it difficult to grab one of the keys themselves. This isn't a deal breaker for me, because having storage on you at all times is useful. I just wish there was more real estate for keychain rings to move around without a secondary, smaller key ring to remove the problem.
February 2015 · Electronics · verified purchase