Kingston Technology 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive - Electronics / Photography (KIngston)

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Customer Reviews of Kingston Technology 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive

Devinea
Edinburgh
19th November 2008

Good, cheap and flexible
Excellent little device for a great price. Formats into NTFS in moments and provides a good little tool for back ups as well as videos etc.

G. Robertson
Lincolnshire
14th November 2008

"Does what it says on the tin"
This is a cheap 8GB usb memory stick, formatted in FAT32, just what I needed for backing up work from my netbook.

It installed automatically in Windows XP.

There are no security features (at this price, not surprising), but I suppose in XP or Vista you could put your file(s) in a zip folder and assign a password if you're concerned about that.

A small LED flashes when data is being saved or accessed.

Other customers have commented on excessive p&p charges, but this seems to have been sorted; I payed a basic price with free p&p.

Jomi
UK
11th November 2008

Good Product
I bought one of these a month ago and I've used it daily with no problems as of yet. The device is sturdy, the processing speed is good, and the price is low. It seems reliable enough, all of my files have been recognised with no loss of data up until this point, all in all a good product.

S. Bokhari

8th November 2008

Great Device
I've been a fan of the Kingston Data Sticks for a while now, starting out with the 1GB one and working my way up to the 8GB stick I have now. They're extremely compact but reasonably sturdy devices, they're plug and play as promised so you just plug it in and you're ready to transfer files and on that note file transfer is quite fast too. While the design itself is a bit bland, the 8GB variation I have is quite a handsome device with some work done on it. You get more than the worth for the little money you pay and I would wholly recommend it to anyone.

John Stark

23rd October 2008

Not suitable for "ready boost"
Really disappointed with this item, writes at only 3mb/s that's less than half the speed of my other usb 2.0 flash drive, if you're only looking to store items it'll do the job, just be prepared to wait, especially if you've got some big files to back up. Also because of the slow speed you can't use this for "ready boost", so it's really down to what you need it for.