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:

Features:		8/10
Ease of Use:		9/10
Design:		10/10
Performance:		7/10
Overall:		9/10

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

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