SimpleTech Bonzai Xpress 2 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive, Designed By Pininfarina

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GU057W
• Item model number: STI-UFD/2GB
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 17, 2006

Product Description

Product Description

The sleek lines and ultra-low profile styling of the Bonzai Xpress Flash Drive make you want to show it off, but it easily slides into your pocket for ultimate portability. The stylish lines were designed by Pininfarina, the very same design firm that gives Ferrari sports cars their stylish lines.Don't let its beauty fool you. Performance isn't sacrificed for one instance. With USB 2.0, you'll get ultra fast data transfer speeds. The SimpleTech BonzaiXpress USB Flash Drive (designed by Pininfarina) enables you to break free from the limitations of floppy disks, CD R/Ws, tape drives and disks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too slow to use, December 29, 2006

By	jeffa (Atlanta, GA, USA) - See all my reviews

Don't know if I have a defective unit or if they are all bad, but it is taking over 1 minute to transfer 1 MB of data to the drive. We'll see how Amazon's return policy works...

UPDATE:
Pretty screwy. It works great under Linux... To test I tried to copy the entire directory for the shareware game Soldat. Under Windows it said it would take 30 minutes and after a few minutes I gave up. Under Linux (running from a Knoppix 5.0 CD) I copied the same directory from the same drive and the entire thing copied in about 5 seconds. To make sure I hadn't just copied links to the files, I switched back into Windows XP and ran the game. It was slow as heck, but it ran.

Guess I'll keep this one specifically for Linux and get another brand for Windows.

For Windows it gets ZERO stars. For Linux I'd have to say 4 or 5 stars. Like I said, it's screwy.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars SLOWWW, February 9, 2007

By	Yang Wang "[e-mail]" (Marietta, GA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this drive on sale from another vendor. It was PAINFUL to use. It was about as fast as a floppy. A 1mb file took nearly 20 seconds to be transferred! Don't bother with it. Stick to another brand.

A friend of mine also had exactly the same problem. He exchanged one and told me that the second one was OK. So apparently it could be a hit-and-miss thing. However, it just seemed to me that the probability of missing is so high that it is not worth considering.

I'm going to buy a Sandisk.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good value, reliable, July 6, 2009

By	Erik Larsen "Erik" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've now owned this flash drive for over 2 years and haven't had any problems. Primary use is transfering docs/music to and from work and taking data with me on business trips.

Pros: Haven't had any problem with corrupt/losing data. Easy plug and play with every computer I've ever tried it with. Nice design. Total disk space on mine is 1.94gb. Speed seems good (transferred 1gb of mp3s from hard drive to device in 20-25 secs).

Cons: Nothing really. Blue light is very bright but that's not really a con unless you are trying to sleep on your laptop. The cap would be easy to lose b/c it's not attached but by some higher power I've been able to keep track of mine for 2+ yrs and counting.

I would recommend this product to a friend.