ATP 1gb Pink Petito Pen Drive
June 5, 2008
ATP Pink Petito 1GB flash drive is not much larger than a coin, available up to 4GB of memory capacity. It comes in five different colours but the best suit is pink colour. Petito is very small and shaped as pendant. A small keychain hole is available on the top of the drive so you can wear it as a fashionable necklace or you can put it on your keychain. ATP is a flash memory product manufacturer who brings out leading design and latest technology in flash memory. Some flash drives are popular from this manufacturer such as ‘toughdrive’.
The keychain hole is on flash drive side and not on the cap side so you can be least bothered about losing it with out your knowledge. ATP Pink Petito 1GB pen drive is plain and simple flash drive and has no frills with extra built, it is purely developed to retain its elegance in style and smallest in size. With certain level of durability the outer aluminium case is strongly built to give utmost protection to the drive inside.
For protection of data stored inside ATP Petito comes with USB drive utility security features so you can assign password protection to important digital files if necessary. Using this USB drive utility program you can also make partition and assign password protection to the entire drive or particular folder. As far as reading and writing speed ATP Petito flash drive shows 20% faster than standard flash drive in its class and delivers incredible 30MB/sec of transferring rate and fully compatible with USB specification version of 1.1 and 2.0.
ATP Petito 1GB Ribbon Special Edition flash drive is enabled with Window Vista ReadyBoost. You can also use this beauty to boost up your PC or notebook. With the available 1GB capacity you can allocate some amount of memory capacity as random access memory for your PC or notebook in order to increase its response and speedup the process of fetching the data.
Specifications:
- It features 10 years of data retention and compatible with Window and MAC OS.
- Its distinctive system in package (SIP) protects it from extreme heat, shock, water, dust and electro static discharge.
- Weighs less than 8g.
Conclusions:
- Extremely compact and has password protection. Show good transferring speed and ReadyBoost enabled.
- It has many additional features besides its smaller size. It can be showcased in the rack of best buys.
Ativa 1gb Capless Flash Drive Review
April 1, 2008
Ativa - small and simple Capless Drive
Ativa capless 1gb Flash Drive is smaller in size and simple to use. This staunch little Ativa is very compact and offer indispensable portability for business people and student who would like to use flash drives which consumes less space and works smart. Its fully grown impeccable design gives special cap less feature which is much more useful for people is more specific about usability and portability.
It has good accessing speed and considerable storage capacity of 1GB which is well cocooned inside its elegant look and shape. Its retractable USB is uniquely put forth the ultimate purpose of new age of flash drive without depending on cap to protect the knob. It is its advantage which is presented soft touch of pulling the lever to hide and unhide the USB. With its dependable reusable storage capacity of 1GB you can upload more files.
Design
Its smoothly finished metal case is highly captivating and perfectly coordinates with its unique retractable design. Since it is being a new effort and follows the origin of cap less design, sure it will be much useful for people who would expect some functionality such as ease of carrying and speed in data transfer.
Specifications:
- Compatible with Windows Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS 9 and OS X.
- It comes with key chain for secure portability.
- It comes with 1 GB storage capacity and also available in 2 GB, 4 GB and 8 GB.
- Height: 2 inches, Width: 13/16 inch, Depth: 7/16 inch.
Conclusion
- Ativa has not yet showed much difference in design but they launch each model with purpose like Ativa retractable USB with unique design.
- It is very small and has good speed in data transferring but cannot be compared with other 1GB flash drives in its class because they are way long.
Kanguru Bio AES 1GB USB Flash Drive
February 27, 2008
- It has reading and writing speed of 10 MB/s and 5 MB/s.
- It has writing cycle of 10,000 cycles/blocks.
- Compatible with windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003.
- It just weighs 19gms.
- Kanguru Bio AES comes with capacity range from 1GB to 8GB.
- If you would like to carry your confidential data in a smaller capacity USB flash drive then this will suit you well.
SanDisk Cruzer Micro 1GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive
December 25, 2007
Overview
The SanDisk 1GB pen drive is truly micro with its sleek profile. This drive is the smallest in its class and is a definite boon to people who connect too many devices to their laptops.
Design
The USB drive looks stylish and compact with dimensions of 7.9mm x 18.95mm x 52.2mm (H x W x L). The clear skin plastic sleeve protects the USB connector, which is enclosed in a lustrous metal casing. The brilliant green LED lights up the tail of the drive and adds to the style quotient of the drive.
Performance
This 1gb flash pen drive from sandisk is a USB 2.0 compliant USB device and offers maximum data rates when connected to Hi-speed USB 2.0 ports. The transfer rates suffer when this drive is connected to legacy ports (USB 1.1 compliant). The drive is Plug and Play compatible and does not require additional software to work on most of the Operating Systems. It is compatible with both Macintosh and Windows Platforms. This drive performs faster when copying and deleting bigger files and becomes slow as the file sizes decrease. The drive also comes with a few pre-installed software. This means that they are installed in the drive and run from the drive itself. The Cruzer Lock utility can encrypt your files to secure them. You are required to key in a password to encrypt and later decrypt the files. The Pocket Cache utility allows you to create backup of your drive and the Cruzer Sync allows you to sync your Outlook and My Documents files and folders. The last two utilities are trial versions.
KEY SPECIFICATIONS
Storage Capacity: 1GB
Interfaces: 1 Hi-Speed USB - 4 PIN USB Type A
Compatible OS: Windows 2000, XP and Mac OS 9.1.x+, OS X v10.1.2+, Certified Windows XP and Mac OS X
Software: Cruzer Lock 2, Pocket Cache (trial), Cruzer Sync (trial)
Conclusion:
This 1GB Sandisk Cruzer micro flash pen drive is one of the compact and efficient drives in the market. The disadvantage being the detachable cap, which can be a pain and the drive is a little on the slower side. We advise you to explore other options before going in with the purchase.
