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ByteStor 4GB USB High Speed "Dataferry" Flash Drive | 
| Brand: ByteStor
Category: CE
List Price: £10.99
Buy New: £5.95
You Save: £5.04 (46%)
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 85
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.3 x 0.6
MPN: BSPEN-USB2.0-4GB-DF
Model: BSPEN-USB2.0-4GB-DF
EAN: 5039014162089
ASIN: B000ML2AU0
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
 Cheap doesn't mean better December 16, 2008
Adam Tyler
I bought this because the original USB flash drive I had was badly damaged. This one may have a lot of memory, but trust me, it isn't worth even half the price.
Firsty, unlike other USB flash drives there is no AutoRun. Secondly, even if you created an AutoRun file, it still won't do anything. Finally, after a while it mucks up the USB interface on my computer, so I would need to restart the computer in order to get Internet access again.
Best thing to do with this junk is to chuck it into the sea
 Fits in my wallet August 14, 2008
Nicole Rugman
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Excellent storage device. Works perfectly on Macs and PCs and fits into my wallet easily. Goes everywhere with me.
 Reliable and good value for money June 28, 2008
A. Graves (London, UK United Kingdom)
1 out of 15 found this review helpful
I bought mine over a year ago and use it quiet a lot, never had a single problem with it. Ultra light and simply good value for money.
I just wish it had a security softare inside, for password encryption, as it stands it doesn't have any security. So looses 4 starts because of that! Security is the top priority when you want to have such a small device to store important documents.
Wish I had bought this before June 18, 2008
Technical and Artistic (Herts)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I needed to transfer over 60GB of photos, music and data to another machine so that I could format one of my storage partitions. A long and tedious session of DVD backups resulted in a few corrupt files so I set about looking for a non network solution and found these wonderful gadgets.
I have now transferred all my data, corrected the problem on the data partition and ferried the data back from the backup machine all without a hitch and it was not too slow.
One regret is that I did not buy the 8GB version because many of my folders were too big to put on the 4GB device all at once. As I am intending to buy a Vista machine soon and will be distributing my large photo collection and other data between this and two other XP machines for permanent backups in addition to DVD I may buy the 8GB version and use this one to carry important data around with me in my handbag, it's so small.
With regard to the size, yes it is small and you have to be careful not to lose it but what I did was to attach it to a short connecting cable that came with an MP3 player and therefore there was no strain on the business end of the device. It also made it easier to find if I dropped it.
I would suggest to anyone who found the device slow that maybe their machine was lacking in sufficient memory or they were trying to run other memory hungry processes at the same time. I am running XP Pro with lGB memory. I found it was best to let the data transfer have all the resources available and I also rebooted a few times to free up the cache and any locked memory.
Feels cheap but works very well May 31, 2008
Mr. Mischief (Guernsey)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
USB flash drives are very individual items, what may work well for someone may not work so well for someone else. I've had a 512MB Bytestor Dataferry drive in regular use for a few years now and during that time it has worked flawlessly, despite what I would call at times excessive use. I've used it to hold and transfer music, photos and MS work files, as well as installation files for programs that I find particularly useful, and I have not once experienced any loss of data.
The 4GB version looks and feels exactly the same as the 512MB one, compact but a bit on the cheap and flimsy side with a loose cap that could be lost quite easily. There's little doubt that the outer casing wouldn't survive any sort of abuse so careful use is recommended; tougher drives are available if you need them, this one is really just for transferring files from one machine to another in as cheap a form factor as possible. The proof of the pudding would be to smash one up and see how well the innards come through the experience, but that would be something for someone far braver than me to try.
With 3.84GB of space available after formatting, the drive has so far worked without any problems although I can't really comment on the transfer speed as I haven't yet transferred any large files. It doesn't come with any instructions (although it is just plug and play) and also isn't ReadyBoost compliant, so don't buy it if you want to give Vista a helping hand.
So far, after taking off a star for the construction and the looseness of the cap, I've found very little to dislike about this drive, and for less than 11 it does seem a bit of a steal. As with any storage medium like this you'd be well advised to make sure you regularly back up anything valuable on it to CD or DVD, as no electronic item is guaranteed 100%.
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