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1GB Ocz Roadster USB Drive | List Price: $29.99
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Brand: OCZ Technology
Binding: Electronics
Features: - OCZ Technology
- 1GB Roadster USB Drive
So small! Almost perfect... [Posted on 2007-01-02]
This is the smallest usb drive I've seen to date. Wonderfully small. It has a pretty fast transfer speed, and works well. The only flaw is the plastic they chose to make it with. OCZ used a very hard and brittle plastic that quickly started showing little chips and scratches. After a week of toting it around, the little plastic nub for hooking to your key chain, etc. broke. I feared this would happen given the brittle plastic. So now I have no easy way to tote it around... and it is so small, you could easily lose it. If OCZ remade this without any plastic, and used some brushed metal instead... this would be the perfect usb drive for taking everywhere... as it is, I can only give it 3 stars. :-(
Small. Unfortunately..... [Posted on 2007-01-15]
I keep my USB stick in my pocket, attached to my keychain. Therefore, only the smallest models come into consideration. I thought I had found the perfect one with the OCZ Roadster. Unfortunately, the small plastic ring broke after less than one week of use. That's a real pity, because otherwise the device is nice. Just because of this small, badly designed detail, the whole thing is now useless.
Tiny, but cheap. [Posted on 2007-03-11]
The cheap plastic key-ring loop broke the second day (this appears to happen to everyone who puts the silly thing in their pocket). But the device works, and I now carry it in my belt-pouch so I always have it ready.
Finally.... A key-sized key drive! [Posted on 2007-04-10]
Both at home and in my work, I have the need to copy and move files -some of them with sizes up to a GB. For these occasions, I have purchased a slew of 'key', 'thumb' and 'flash' drives of various brands, capacities, speeds and sizes and have reviewed a couple of them here on epinions. Some performed better than others - all worked OK - but.... they all felt like added heft on my keyring. So much so, in some instances, that I wound up storing them in desk drawers - and then not having them with me at times when I needed them. What I had REALLY been hoping to find all along, was a device small enough to fit, lightly and unobtrusively, on my key ring with a full GB of storage capacity. I believe that I have finally found such a device and would like to be the first to introduce you to the OCZ Roadster. This review will be as brief and as to-the-point as is the device itself. No space wasted anywhere!
It measures an incredibly (compared to most others) small 1 1/8" X 5/8" X 3/16" closed - and opens with plug available to a full length of just under 2". It is smaller, in fact, than any of the keys on my keyring! But is quick and easy to use. The unit comes with a USB 2.0 connecting cable if your plug receptacle is positioned so as to make it necessary. Mine is not, as my ports at the office are right on the front of the CPU and at home they are also easy to reach. The cable is a handy addition if you need it, though. It is, of course, completely Plug and Play, transfers data and photos very quickly and adds literally no noticeable weight or 'heft' to your key ring!
It seems to me to have achieved a better and more honestly functional version of what we really mean by 'portability' and makes the perfect thumb drive if anything up to 2GB (the larger size of the same device) will meet your data storage and transfer needs. It would be MUCH improved if the ring fitting on it were metal instead of plastic... I can see it won't last as long as the drive itself.
As with all OCZ devices, it comes with a full 3-year warranty.
It could been the finest product of it's kind! [Posted on 2007-06-20]
The selling point of this product is that it's small and it can be carried in a key chain. If one will do so, the loop will brake (mine did broke in a month and I lost it). I consider this product as a failure! Next time try to change that loop, other then it will, can, be the finest product of its kind.
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