Product Description

The SanDisk Cruzer Mini delivers maximum storage capacity for its miniscule size, giving you plenty of room to transfer, share and store your precious pictures, videos, music and data. The SanDisk Cruzer Mini is USB 2.0-certified, so you can transfer data incredibly fast (USB 1.1 compatible, too), and it's so small, it fits easily in tight-fitting dual-stack USB ports.

Product Details

• Brand: SanDisk
• Model: SDCZ2-2048-A10
• Original language: English

Features

• No drivers required for Windows
• Transfer, share and store all your data, pictures, music and more
• Thin design will not obstruct dual-stacked USB ports found on many computers 
• Includes CruzerLock 2 data security software and trial versions of PocketCache and CruzerSync software
• Hi-Speed USB 2.0 certified (backwards compatible with all USB 1.1 ports)

From the manufacturer
The SanDisk Cruzer Mini delivers maximum storage capacity for its miniscule size. 2 GB gives you plenty of room to transfer, share and store your precious pictures, videos, music and data. The SanDisk Cruzer Mini is USB 2.0-certified, so you can transfer data incredibly fast (USB 1.1 compatible, too), and it’s so small, it fits easily in tight-fitting dual-stack USB ports.

Customer Reviews

Too Slow
I've used two brands of USB Flash drives, Lexar JumpDrive and Cruzer Mini. Of the Lexar brand I've used both Usb 1.1 and Usb 2 drives, and I have to say that the Cruzer Drive is closer in speed to USB 1.1 than the stated USB 2. Of course, this is in relation to transfers of a large number of small files. The Cruzer Mini can handle large files fairly well. (Although, it is still slower.)

For example:
-------------JumpDrive 2.0 Pro.....Cruzer Mini 2.0...Lexar JD 1.1
1 71.7GB file......7-8 sec............16-18 sec...........199 sec
28MB 916 files....96 sec..............470 sec.............555 sec

(Note, these are write speeds)

The numbers speak for themselves. The Cruzer drives are clearly closer old USB 1.1 speeds than USB 2. They're nice and cheap, but if you want performance, I'd suggest something else.

Tough little bugger...
I use my Cruzer Mini constantly at work. It's great for quick data transfers, small utilities, drivers or patching systems that are off the network. It's slim and lightweight enough that I tend to drop it in my shirt pocket and forget about it. You probably see where this is going...but yes, it's been run through the washing machine at least four times. What may be even more impressive is that it's been run through the dryer three times (once I did catch it after being washed and saved it from the dryer, allowing it to air dry instead). It still works as well as the day I took it out of the package, never missing a beat.

Excellent Product
We purchased a number of Cruzer Minis to pass out to employees at work. Everyone has been totally satisfied with the ease of use, the data transfer speed, the security features built in, and most of all the 2 MB of storage space. The SanDisk Cruzer Mini is a quality product and is definitely worth the price!