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Verbatim TUFF 'N' TINY 2 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive 96814 (Orange)

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3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (162 customer reviews)

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Verbatim TUFF 'N' TINY 2 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive 96814 (Orange) + Verbatim TUFF 'N' TINY 4 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive 96815 (Green) + Verbatim TUFF 'N' TINY 8 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive 96816 (Purple)
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Technical Details

Capacity: 2 GB | Color: Orange
  • Measures 1.2" x 0.5" x 0.08" or half the size of a SD Card
  • Ultra portable USB Drive! Works with any USB 2.0/1.1 port
  • Rugged design resists the elements
  • Attach to key ring or cell phone for easy carrying
  • Windows Vista, XP, 2000, Mac OS 9 & higher, Linux kernel 2.6 & higher
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Product Details

  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 3.5 x 0.4 inches ; 1.6 ounces
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
  • ASIN: B001RCTA88
  • Item model number: 96814
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (162 customer reviews)
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2007

Product Description

Capacity: 2 GB | Color: Orange

From the Manufacturer

Verbatim’s TUFF-‘N’-TINY™ USB drive offers secure storage in one of the most compact, durable USB flash drives available.  Resistant to everyday handling, dust, moisture and static discharges, Verbatim’s TUFF-’N’-TINY™ USB drive is small enough and tough enough to handle all the thrills and spills of modern life. Just drag and drop your folders and files...everything from presentations and documents to photos and video clips..  It’s compatible with Windows PCs and Macs and can be used with all USB ports. The TUFF-‘N’-TINY™ USB drive comes with key ring lanyard to attach to mobile phones or key rings.

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Rugged design is water resistant. View larger

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System in Package (SIP) technology enclosure resists dust and dirt. View larger

Features

Size: The TUFF-‘N’-TINY™ USB drive measures about 1 inch long, a half inch wide, and is about the thickness of a penny!

Durability: This drive is designed for the rigors of everyday use and is resistant to dust, water and static discharges.

Compatibility: Compatible with Windows PCs and Macs, this USB drive is also compatible with all USB connections.

Capacity: The TUFF-‘N’-TINY™ drive comes in 5 capacity sizes: 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB.

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Attaches easily to a key ring or fits conveniently in your wallet. View larger

    About Verbatim 

For 40 years, Verbatim has been providing technology you can trust with an impressive selection of removable storage media and computer peripherals, including a wide range of CD, DVD and High Definition video products. Verbatim also offers an array of lightning fast desktop and portable hard drives, USB flash drives, stylish, feature-rich mice and keyboards, and a broad range of replacement laser toner cartridges. Buy Verbatim and you get innovation, security, and reliability – and that means peace of mind.

Lifetime Warranty
Verbatim’s USB drives are fully backed by a Limited Lifetime Warranty. If you experience technical issues that out support team cannot resolve--rest assured we’ll replace the
drive! Verbatim stands behind the quality of our products--we’ve done so
for over 40 years!

A Greener Shade Of Blue

Consumers choose to spend their money in more eco-conscious ways, and Verbatim gives them the option to get high-tech without being highly wasteful. Verbatim’s new packaging for USB drives and Memory Cards is greener than ever. Our new package design reduces the amount of plastic used by up to 93.9% on Memory Cards and 90.9% on USB drives by substituting paperboard material for the plastic clamshell. Now, the only plastic part of our packaging surrounds the product, thus optimizing the use of renewable resources and keeping un-necessary plastic out of landfills.

Material Components
The paperboard structure is MWV Natralock™ material. This offers greater sustainability and also greater security and safety than a traditional clamshell package. A tear-resistant layer requires scissors to open but won’t cut the consumer with sharp edges.
These packages offer additional benefits that are a side-effect of going green. They are designed to withstand over 25-lbs. of downward pressure without tearing--which also ensures the packaging cannot be torn off a display hook. Verbatim used this redesign opportunity to eliminate the plastic case previously included with Memory Cards. Since most consumers discarded the case, all unnecessary elements have been eliminated.

More Green Packaging Benefits
Verbatim now adds an icon to packaging meeting our “More Green” standards; we want to highlight the environmental benefits of this new packaging structure to customers and the industry alike. Look for the “More Green” logo on Verbatim products as well as the specific benefits on the back.

  • Plastic reduction up to 93.9%*
  • Overall packaging weight reduction up to 54.7%
  • Almost double the freight efficiency
  • Material health increase of up to 274% (carcinogen material reduction by gram)
  • Safer for consumers - No sharp edges!

*2009 COMPASS analysis of packaging material systems. Results differ by procut.

Product Description

Penny-thin, travel-tough and water-impermeable, the Verbatim TUFF-‘N'-TINY™ USB Drives offers secure storage in one of the most compact, durable USB flash drives in the world… and it fits in all standard USB ports! Designed for everyday handling and those not-so-everyday disasters, these drives resist dust, water and static discharges. The TUFF-‘N'-TINY™ offers password security for Windows users. Perfect for carrying the files you use every day, the TUFF-‘N'-TINY™ comes with a convenient lanyard for attaching it to your key ring.• Ultra reliable SIP (System in Package) technology encapsulates all electronic components • Capless USB connector resists water, dust, and static discharges • Compatible with ALL USB ports • Password security feature protects sensitive data. • Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Mac OS 9.x, or higher, Linux kernel 2.6x or higher • Limited lifetime warranty


Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
96 of 96 people found the following review helpful
Color Name:Purple| Size Name:8 GB|Amazon Verified Purchase
I've had my Verbatim Store 'n' Go Micro 8GB drive for over six months (I bought it before they renamed it TUFF 'N' TINY) and haven't had any problems with it. It has been a reliable, sturdy, and fast storage device, and looks great on my keychain. It's always fun when I plug it in someone else's computer and they go "What the heck is that?" "Did you say EIGHT gig?" "Must've been expensive!"

I was a little worried about buying from a brand name that is not necessarily trusted in the field of flash memory, but my fears were allayed when I plugged it in for the first time and it identified itself as a "Kingston Store 'n' Go", which leads me to believe this device is the product of some collaboration between Kingston and Verbatim, or is an entirely Kingston product that has simply been purchased and rebranded by Verbatim. Either way, I feel better about the device knowing Kingston's name is associated with it in some way.

Just for kicks, I recently ran my drive through its paces using the Xbench benchmarking program for Mac. It clocked at the following speeds:

-Sequential-
Uncached Write: 5.26 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write: 5.22 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read: 4.38 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read: 31.43 MB/sec [256K blocks]

-Random-
Uncached Write: 0.03 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write: 1.00 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read: 3.27 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read: 29.86 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Update: I've now had my Tuff 'n' Tiny for nearly a year and still continue to love every minute of owning it. It takes a licking and just keeps ticking. If I could add a sixth star to this review, I would.

Another update: Hm, it seems I spoke a little too soon. After one year and one week, my 8GB Tuff 'n' Tiny has finally kicked the bucket. It has the same symptom many have described here--it just stopped being recognized by all my computers. It doesn't show up on the desktop when I plug it into my Mac; there's no dah-donk sound when I plug it into my Windows PC. I'm willing to concede, as others have suggested, that the super-thin Tuff 'n' Tiny may be more sensitive to static shock than other more well-shielded USB drives. However, given that mine lasted over a year with fairly heavy use, I feel like I did get my money's worth out of it, so I've gone ahead and purchased the newly released 16GB edition of the Tuff 'n' Tiny. If I don't have similar luck with the new one, I'll definitely consider docking some stars from my review and selecting a different brand and a larger more well-shielded form factor for my next USB drive. I'll keep you posted.

Yet another update: I've now had the 16GB model for over a year and it's been working great. (And now that I've updated this review, Murphy's Law states it will quit working in about a week. Haha, keep your fingers crossed for me!)

And as a bonus, here are benchmarks from Xbench for the 16GB model:

-Sequential-
Uncached Write: 8.99 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write: 8.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read: 4.51 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read: 20.02 MB/sec [256K blocks]

-Random-
Uncached Write: 0.18 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write: 0.97 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read: 3.19 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read: 18.73 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
It's dead Jim. February 20, 2010
Color Name:Purple| Size Name:8 GB|Amazon Verified Purchase
I'm afraid I have the same story as several of the reviews below. I've had the drive for a few months and now its dead. No activity when its plugged into several different computers. Disk Utilities on Windows, Mac and Linux don't even see the drive. It has become a tiny paperweight I'm afraid. Which is sad because if it had held up, I'd really have loved the thing. It's a great size and I like the SIP setup. I can actually stay on keychain. Of course, if its dead or I can't trust it to not make data disappear what good is is?

Edit - June 20, 2011:

I suppose that since my review is now one of the most helpful I should update it to tell where the story went from here. After the frustration of the first drive dropping dead, I read through the reviews here which noted it had a lifetime warranty. So I emailed Verbatim and got a RMA email. I taped this drive to the letter and mailed it off. A few weeks later I received a brand new drive. It has been on my keychain since without issues. This one has held up fine and actually serves as a copy of my "off-site backup" holding an encrypted copy of my documents and such. It is also good enough for the occasional "let me grab that file from you and take it with".

However, given the issues I had with the first one dropping dead without warning I do make sure that everything on the drive is also stored somewhere else. It is the ultimate in convenience since it weighs next to nothing and there's nothing to break. However, I wouldn't put the only copy of a thesis on this or something. Make sure that if you get one and it stops working it is only a "oh darn" type situation and not a disaster.

I've updated the review to 3 stars (since the first drive was a 1-star and its replacement is a 5-star). Again, I wouldn't trust the device to be bulletproof with data but we've been dealing with that issue since the days of floppies. I think this is a worthy drive if you're careful. I wish I had the 32-gig instead of the 8 but you know how that goes.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Color Name:Purple| Size Name:8 GB|Amazon Verified Purchase
I really should have listened to the negative reviews.

I work on both a Mac and a PC (windows nt & vista). It's 6am and I've spent a few minutes getting about 2Gb of documents together to work on at the office on my pc and was MID transfer when the tuff-n-tiny suddenly ejected itself.

This has absolutely never happened to me before. No, it didn't get jostled, there wasn't an earthquake, the flash drive was in my laptop and I was looking at the transfer progress waiting for the estimated time to process. everything was absolutely still--and voila, self eject complete with warning message that a device had been improperly removed.

I then actually removed the drive from the computer, reinserted it now I get the error message 'The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer'.

I've had it opened and out of the package for all of 10 minutes. And already-a major issue.

update--thought i'd reformat the drive on my PC at work...no dice. the laptop doesn't even register that there's a device in the drive.

Verbatim's getting a call from me then the damn thing's going back to the seller/Amazon.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
DO NOT BUY THIS!!!!
Pro: Small

Con: The first one worked for about 1 month. Verbatim replaced it, but I had to pay shipping back. Second one worked for about two weeks. Read more
Published 3 days ago by N. Souza
Dead!
Worked great for about two months....now it is dead! DO NOT BUY! I have an 8GB version and it is rock solid....but the 16GB is worthless!
Published 5 days ago by TB
Not so tuff
Purchased early December 2011. Attached to key chain, worked for a couple weeks, then wouldn't be seen by any computer (Vista, 7, linux). Read more
Published 8 days ago by M. Brown
I really do like this flash drive... I really do...
This little guy is the perfect size. What that really means is it is almost non-existent. For a few more years before everything is truly digital a near microscopic flash drive... Read more
Published 22 days ago by PassionMeetsCoffee
Amazing size, died within a few months
This was the perfect size for what I was looking for (a drive to carry between work and home), so I was excited when I set up all my portable apps and files... Read more
Published 22 days ago by E. Bishop
Product True to its Name
Purchased this item for my son as a replacement for his last Flash Drive. He keeps attached to his keychain and three previous items, from different manufacturers, had each broken... Read more
Published 23 days ago by Mark
Failed within a month
After a month of use on a keychain the drive failed. I always safely removed it from the computer.

I sent it in to get a warranty replacement. Read more
Published 23 days ago by TheFacts
Dead after 2 weeks
Seemed fine at first; sure enough (just like everyone else) it died after 2 weeks. Unrecognized by all PC's I put it in.
Published 1 month ago by SIDLEY
Its the best usb drive....
This is one of the best usb drives in the market. The software that comes with it is very good as it make one partition invisible and hidden
Published 1 month ago by Raj
Plenty of Storage in a Small Package
So light and tiny, I use it as a zipper pull so it is always available when I need it. No cap to lose and no sliding mechanism to break. Read more
Published 1 month ago by R. Chan
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