This thing cost me about 43 bucks and even at the current state of problems, is more than worth it. But I'd like to share my experiences with it and to see if other flashdiskers have any thoughts.
Firstly, I can only assume the thing is powered from the USB, but how does it retain memory? Is it the old non-dynamic RAM? Does is have a capacitor or small battery?
Secondly, it didn't work as smoothly on my work computer (WinXP Pro) as advertised. We use network drives, and when the flashdrive was plugged in, no extra drive appeared. I eventually discovered that the flashdrive "wanted" to be drive E:, so I moved my network E: drive to F:. Problem solved ... except that I now have to remember that my E: drive is not the network E: drive of everyone else's machine.
Another problem arose when I tried to stop the device to unplug it. The systray icon led me to conclude I had to stop it instead of just unplugging it. But the systray icon led to a GUI of a hierarchy of devices that refused to allow me to stop them. I ended up restarting the machine; during the restart, the flashdrive's LED went off, and onyl then I unplugged it. Safe! ... but it still didn't work as smoothly as I was led to believe.
I'm still pleased that I can tote 256MB of storage around so easily, and I will keep this thing (provided that it does work with my Win98SE machine with drivers obtained from the site ... I've yet to install them).
Any thoughts?
Firstly, I can only assume the thing is powered from the USB, but how does it retain memory? Is it the old non-dynamic RAM? Does is have a capacitor or small battery?
Secondly, it didn't work as smoothly on my work computer (WinXP Pro) as advertised. We use network drives, and when the flashdrive was plugged in, no extra drive appeared. I eventually discovered that the flashdrive "wanted" to be drive E:, so I moved my network E: drive to F:. Problem solved ... except that I now have to remember that my E: drive is not the network E: drive of everyone else's machine.
Another problem arose when I tried to stop the device to unplug it. The systray icon led me to conclude I had to stop it instead of just unplugging it. But the systray icon led to a GUI of a hierarchy of devices that refused to allow me to stop them. I ended up restarting the machine; during the restart, the flashdrive's LED went off, and onyl then I unplugged it. Safe! ... but it still didn't work as smoothly as I was led to believe.
I'm still pleased that I can tote 256MB of storage around so easily, and I will keep this thing (provided that it does work with my Win98SE machine with drivers obtained from the site ... I've yet to install them).
Any thoughts?