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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Awful hinge, mildly annoying surprise program, August 23, 2007
As someone else said, this could have been so much better!
I chose the drive for the cap design, being tired of losing and scattering usb drive caps around the world. But that design seems flawed....
Maybe it's just my unit, but the hinge is so stiff that I have to fight every time I open the drive. I have to push it very carefully through the opening, then pry it open the rest of the way from the connector-end of the drive. This really makes the drive annoying to use in the fast-paced setting for which I bought it. Yes, it's cool that the hinge lights up blue to indicate when the drive is active. But I wish it worked more smoothly!
The software that came with it could have been better too, but hey, I didn't even know the drive CAME with software -- the package says nothing about it. Annoyingly, however, if I use the PowerToGo/Ceedo software to look at the files on the drive, I cannot drag and drop a document INTO that window, as I normally would/should be able to do in a usual windows environment. The window even looks just like Windows' version, making it more irritating. Yes, I can copy and paste a document into the PowerToGo window, but that is cumbersome. This has to be an error in the program.
To the user who was rightly annoyed by the automatically appearing desktop shortcut -- it irritated the cr** out of me too -- but you can turn that off if you go to "options" in the PowerToGo menu.
UPDATE: After several weeks of use, the hinge has loosened somewhat, and is now much easier to work. I just hope the process doesn't continue to the point where the drive swings freely and "exposes itself" uncommanded. I would up my rating to four stars now, with the hinge improving, and noticing how truly convenient it is not to have to mind a cap -- but I can't change the rating here, it seems. Also, as others have noted, you don't have to use the software; you can even just wipe it from the drive and move forward as though it never existed.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
TWO Gigabytes (and it feels like it), May 11, 2007
I was suckered into buying a teeny tiny 2GB flash drive because of its Lilliputian size: about half the length of a wrapped stick of chewing gum and about the same thickness. As quickly as it had come into my life, it was gone. It probably slipped out of my pocket while I was digging around for my car keys and has long since been swept up by a street sweeper or pecked to pieces by a curious pigeon.
The Jumpdrive 360 has just enough size and heft to prevent that kind of mishap. It nestles in the bottom of your pocket instead of mixing in with the quarters, nickels and dimes. The hinged cover is one less thing to lose, and the included software is icing on the cake. Since I'm a capacity hog, I moved the software off of the Jumpdrive and onto my iMac until I decide to use it.
In performance, it's everything you expect from Lexar. It plugs in and gets right to work with every popular 32-bit and 64-bit operating system, from Windows 98 to the latest and greatest from the wizards at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, California (that's Apple to you). It's fast enough to play big ol' honkin' audio and video files without stutters and flutters. It takes out and puts away document files faster than a hypercaffeinated filing clerk. And it has a handy read/write indicator concealed in the hinge.
Yes, there are smaller, cuter flash drives out there, but cute li'l things have a tendency to grow legs and skitter away. The Jumpdrive 360 is just the right size to stay put until you need it.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simple and functional, excellent design, May 20, 2007
I've been looking for an ideal usb drive for quite some time, which means it should not have a cover that can fall off and with a good read/write speed.
Have used the Cruzer Titanium series in the past, these are marketed as 'indestructible' however, the loop used to attach it to the keyring is very fragile.
This drive is fast, has an all-in-one design (the casing itself fits onto your keyring) and looks great as well.
If you're looking for a simple and functional USB flash drive, this will serve your purpose.
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