Crucial Technology Gizmo 8 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive JDOD8GB-730

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.6 x 0.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0021AEM7E
• Item model number: JDOD8GB-730
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 23, 2009

Product Description

Capacity: 8 GB

8GB Gizmo

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mac OS 10.5 on a Flash Drive, September 5, 2009

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P. Erskine (Half Moon Bay, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crucial Technology Gizmo 8 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive JDOD8GB-730 (Personal Computers)

All of you that want a solution to have an emergency flash drive bootable on the Mac have come to the right place. I bought this drive formatted it to HFS + (plus)made it work for Intel Mac machine only, installed the basic 10.5.6 software by doing a custom install only which amount to 4.5GB, after formatting the drive you end up with 6 GB. I'm able to put all my diagnostic tools on the drive including a tool to clone Mac drives. Since I work in a university that supports 80 iMacs with Bootcamp Windows XP on one half, Mac on the other half, I'm able to boot from my flash drive should one of the workstations fail.

In order to make your bootable flash drive you want to partition the drive using Disk Utilities, select the partition tab, then select Other, there you want to change it from Master Boot Record to Apple Gui, then name your drive and load OS 10.5.6 or 10.6 what ever you have available. I'm able to boot a 20" iMac in 45 seconds from this flash drive. Believe me its fast!

I wonder if you can put Windows XP on a flash drive than be able to format the slave drive, will have to try that next.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you

Dr.Phil SCU

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars small, speedy, nice blue LED, July 8, 2009

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D. Chieng (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crucial Technology Gizmo 8 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive JDOD8GB-730 (Personal Computers)

Smaller/thinner than my other USB flash drives, feel sturdy. Cap fits pretty tightly so no fear of losing the cap. Significantly faster compares to my other 3 flash drives: LG, Kingston, and a generic one. Blue LED status is nice. I reformatted with NTSF format, comes with fat32 format I think. Have it for 1 month, so far so good.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great, July 30, 2009

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This review is from: Crucial Technology Gizmo 8 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive JDOD8GB-730 (Personal Computers)

This is pretty fast. It is very robust (went through washer dryer cycle!), And the cap/key attachment is designed well.
It doesn't have any awful software (like u3 or whatever) installed on it.
What I like about the design is that the cap firmly attaches to the device, and the cap is what attaches to my key ring. I just detach it and use it or let someone borrow it without having my keys hanging off the computer or something.

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