Review by Paul Machado on
June 5, 2002
Product Supplied By: Trekstor
Retail Price: $80CDN, $50USD
Product Testing:
The Thumbdrive SMART is capable of 700Kbytes/s read operation and 350Kbytes/s
write operation. Compared to other removable storage devices such as Zip drives
this may seem slow but they are designed for completely different uses. The
Thumbdrive is designed for ultra-portability and some speed as well while a Zip
drive is mostly designed for speed. Writing a 10MB file onto the drive took just
over a minute. Now to compare this against a floppy drive I used a 1MB file to
gather average write speeds. It took 6 seconds with the Thumbdrive to
write the file while the Floppy drive took 33 seconds. This clearly shows that
this drive is much faster than a floppy drive.
Conclusion:
I have never been able to transfer these amounts of data so quickly and easily.
With the Plug & Play USB interface it makes it so easy to transfer data from one
computer to another without having to large any large piece of hardware around.
Although the speed is not incredible it is still quite fast. Though I do not
mind the speed since it is so portable. Features such as a write protect tab,
status LED and a Plug & Play interface I highly recommend this product to people
who constantly need to transfer files from one computer to another.
Product Score Breakdown:
Pros:
▫ No drivers (except for older OS)
▫ Small size, light design
▫ Great Ease of Use
▫ Available up to 128MB
Cons:
▫ No Security software
▫ Not USB 2.0
