OCZ USB 2.0 32 GB Dual Channel Rally2 Pen Drive (OCZUSBR2DC-32GB)

by OCZ

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 6 x 0.5 inches ; 1.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0013RKFB8
• Item model number: OCZUSBR2DC-32GB
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 29, 2008

Product Description

The OCZ USB 2.0 Rally2 Flash Drive is the sleeker and more ergonomic version of the original Rally. The redesigned Rally2 features a more stylish housing accompanied by a new signature OCZ ultra-bright orange status LED and still houses the renowned OCZ dual channel technology that made the first Rally the choice flash drive among enthusiasts. Thanks to the implementation of leading edge Dual Channel technology, the Rally2 puts data transferring in the fast lane and leaves the competitors in the dust. Pick up the pace and transfer your music, pictures, videos, and data to your laptop or desktop in record time or simply ¿Plug and Play¿ them instantaneously from the convenience of any USB port. The Rally2 Drive excels when managing a wide range of media, and is optimized to more rapidly transfer today¿s larger (5MB and up) files. The ultra durable OCZ Rally2 stores vital documents, presentations, images, music and more in an ultra sleek pocket-size drive, so you can access your files without having to disconnect other USB ports to make room, a common problem with many oversized competitor drives. The incredible OCZ Rally2 Flash drive is designed to be the fastest most reliable USB flash memory drive on the market, and makes use of cutting edge technology and comes backed with a limited lifetime warranty for the ultimate peace of mind.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A [bit of a disappointment] Definite Disappointment..., September 9, 2008

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R in Seattle (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: OCZ USB 2.0 32 GB Dual Channel Rally2 Pen Drive (OCZUSBR2DC-32GB) (Personal Computers)

I spent considerable time researching one of the 32GB flash drives before deciding on the OCZ product. I found a review that performed some extensive tests on three of the 32GB UFDs. What surprised me is that the Corsair product appeared to be quite slow in all but the Windows Vista "Ready Boost" test. The reason this surprised me is that my wife owns a Corsair 8GB UFD and I used it before buying the OCZ product. I found the Corsair product to be quite reliable and (it seemed to me) fast.

However, based on the research that I did and on the reviews here on Amazon, I decided to buy the OCZ brand.

I have mixed feelings about the product now that I have used it for about a month.

The storage capacity is great, but the performance is not what I expected.

When accessing it via Windows XP SP2, there is often an unexpainable delay. I might just be deleting some files or folders or navigating around in the drive and, suddenly, there will be a pronounced delay. I haven't experienced this with any of the other flash drives that I have owned.

Also, when I start a large copy operation from my PC to the flash drive (lots of small to medium sized files) I have experienced "strange" behavior. Once, the copy operation stalled, saying that the drive was full. When I stopped the copy and tried to check the drive, it appeared that there wasn't anything on the drive at all. I unplugged it and checked it on another computer and got the same result: the drive appeared to be empty.

After restarting the original PC and plugging the OCZ drive back into it, it showed up "normal" again. The drive was not full, so I don't know what the problem was.

*** Update: 3/3/2009, I have revised my opinion of this product toward the negative. Having owned this USB flash drive for several months now I find that it has a consistent flaw in copying large volumes of data. It continually "stalls" and disconnects during the copy operation. I have to keep restarting the copy operation. Just a few days ago I reformatted the drive to change how it boots. It took several days elapsed time to copy about 25GB of files of varying size. The copy operation would stall and I would have to keep restarting it. I tried to just copy "changed" files, but that wasn't any help. I had to manually compare my source and destination and find out where the copy stalled and select only the new files to copy.

This is unacceptable. I won't buy from this manufacturer again.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast USB Pen Drive, June 15, 2008

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PairOfDocs (Madison, AL USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: OCZ USB 2.0 32 GB Dual Channel Rally2 Pen Drive (OCZUSBR2DC-32GB) (Personal Computers)

Works great, no problems. This USB pen drive is very fast on read and write operations. Of the 7 other USB drives I own, this one is noticeably faster. It comes without anything on it - no free software, bloatware or any other kind of unnecessary junk. The cap fits snugly and doesn't fall off easily like some other USB drives.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Small device, large capacity, but slow with large number of small files, June 7, 2008

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A. Lipman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: OCZ USB 2.0 32 GB Dual Channel Rally2 Pen Drive (OCZUSBR2DC-32GB) (Personal Computers)

This drive works fine, but it's very slow for transferring a folder that consists of many small files. For example, it took over 11 hours to transfer a 5.34GB folder consisting of 50,000 files. The slow speed seems to be caused by the number of files being transferred, rather than the total storage size of the transfer. Transferring a single 1.39GB file took less than two minutes. I can live with this shortcoming, since I use the drive for backups, and now that I've done the initial file transfer, subsequent incremental backups will be much quicker.

As others have mentioned, the cap is removable and easily lost. It would have been nice for it to fit on the other end of the device, like the cap on a ball point pen.

I'm still amazed at how such a small device can store so much data. Over all, I'm pleased with this little gadget.