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| Brand: | SanDisk |
| Item Height : | 46 millimetres |
| Item Width: | 5.9 centimetres |
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Technical Details
- Stylish black glossy finish
- Unique slider USB connector. No more lost caps
- High Performance: 25 MB/sec read, 18 MB/sec write speeds*
- Hi-speed USB 2.0 for fast data transfer
- U3 Smart enabled
- Carry and launch your personal applications and settings on any PC
- AES hardware encryption and password protection
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The flagship of SanDisk USB flash drives, Cruzer Contour features a sleek and stylish black glossy design. It also includes an innovative sliding USB connector that retracts into the body. The sliding USB connector eliminates the need for caps and protects the connector. The Cruzer Contour also features a lifetime warranty and has minimum read speed of 25MB per second.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I'm writing this review because of the other reviews saying that this drive was too slow. It's not that slow, but it's not as fast as it was advertised (25MB/s read and 18MB/s write).
Here are results from my small experiment:
4GB (2 files) - write around 10MB/s, read around 25MB/s
4GB (12 files) - write around 9.8MB/s, read around 25MB/s
4GB (34668 files) - write around 1.6MB/s, read around 15.3MB/s
If you look at my results, you'll see that the speed depends more on the number of files you have and less on the file size.
For large files, the reading speed is as advertised, 25MB/s, which is great. But writing large files is only around 10MB/s. It's takes around 6 minutes to write 4GB.
Writing a huge number of small files is very slow. Actually, I gave up after 10 minutes of timing and extrapolated the results. In that 10 minutes, I managed to write around 1GB of files on the USB drive. Reading speed is also slower. If you're using it to transfer huge number of files, you might want to zip them up before transferring.
Now to the design of the drive itself. It's huge. The casing is so huge that you might have problems putting a second drive beside this if USB ports are close together. E.g. If you're using it on a Macbook, you'll not able to use this drive with other USB devices because it will block their ports - this is how bad the design is.
The mechanism for retracting the USB stick is cool but unnecessary. You have to slide back and up to get the stick out, and then up and back to get the stick back in. It's not a very good implementation of retractable as compared to the simple Cruzer.
Also , this flash drive comes with the U3 software, which gives you an additional (useless) U3 partition whenever you plug it into a computer. After uninstalling U3, this drive behaves just like any normal drive should behave - hassle-free.
To conclude, the huge case could be the deal breaker for some. The speed is alright, I guess, but I don't have other USB flash drives on hand to compare it with.
Here are results from my small experiment:
4GB (2 files) - write around 10MB/s, read around 25MB/s
4GB (12 files) - write around 9.8MB/s, read around 25MB/s
4GB (34668 files) - write around 1.6MB/s, read around 15.3MB/s
If you look at my results, you'll see that the speed depends more on the number of files you have and less on the file size.
For large files, the reading speed is as advertised, 25MB/s, which is great. But writing large files is only around 10MB/s. It's takes around 6 minutes to write 4GB.
Writing a huge number of small files is very slow. Actually, I gave up after 10 minutes of timing and extrapolated the results. In that 10 minutes, I managed to write around 1GB of files on the USB drive. Reading speed is also slower. If you're using it to transfer huge number of files, you might want to zip them up before transferring.
Now to the design of the drive itself. It's huge. The casing is so huge that you might have problems putting a second drive beside this if USB ports are close together. E.g. If you're using it on a Macbook, you'll not able to use this drive with other USB devices because it will block their ports - this is how bad the design is.
The mechanism for retracting the USB stick is cool but unnecessary. You have to slide back and up to get the stick out, and then up and back to get the stick back in. It's not a very good implementation of retractable as compared to the simple Cruzer.
Also , this flash drive comes with the U3 software, which gives you an additional (useless) U3 partition whenever you plug it into a computer. After uninstalling U3, this drive behaves just like any normal drive should behave - hassle-free.
To conclude, the huge case could be the deal breaker for some. The speed is alright, I guess, but I don't have other USB flash drives on hand to compare it with.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I had one of these for over a year (maybe 18 months, I can't remember). In all that time, I used it most days and I carried it in my pocket constantly (including when carrying out fieldwork in extreme conditions) and its performance was undiminished and its surface unmarked.
Unfortunately, I lost it last week (in a UK pub, of all places). I'm convinced that this would not have happened had it had a method of attaching it to my keys.
Having lost it once, and being slightly concerned about the security of my research data, I'm now trying to decide between replacing the drive like for like, or getting a Corsair Survivor, which looks rugged, has similar performance and encryption and DOES have a way of attaching it to your keys, but is much, much bulkier.
Unfortunately, I lost it last week (in a UK pub, of all places). I'm convinced that this would not have happened had it had a method of attaching it to my keys.
Having lost it once, and being slightly concerned about the security of my research data, I'm now trying to decide between replacing the drive like for like, or getting a Corsair Survivor, which looks rugged, has similar performance and encryption and DOES have a way of attaching it to your keys, but is much, much bulkier.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Nice looking device, fast data transfer but there is no way of attaching it to a keyring or work ID card. Therefore I had to change it for Kingston DataTraveler (which is an excellent product), additionally the finishing means the Sandisk is likely to get scratched easily in my opinion if it is carried around and used frequently.
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