SanDisk Cruzer Blade 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive

OMG, this is tiny. I mean, Ive seen smaller, but golly is this small. Seems the more years go by, the smaller and cheaper these things get. Remember when a 500K one was something to be treasured? (Maybe youre not as old as me.) So I like this! Great for system backups on my laptop without breaking the bank. So far, it has not changed my life, made me more attractive, or improved my own memory. So it loses one star. :-)

Fast and reliable way to back up my files. MUCH better than the Verbatim USB drive I used before, which I bought at Staples but only lasted a couple weeks before getting to be VERY slow. --Fred

Its been about 6 years since Ive bought a thumb drive. This thing is super tiny and light weight. Ive never held one that weighed so little. The packaging design is really sexy. The color of the plug is red, which is neat. And 64GB for $9 is ridiculous. 64GB is still small enough that USB 2.0 is plenty fast enough for whatever files you need to transfer. When opening up the properties, the space available is actually only 58.4 GB. Thats just how these things work but that info might be useful to someone.

Ive been using Cruzer Blades for years. I keep buying larger and larger ones as they become available. Its rugged because theres no moving parts. Theres no retractable useless mechanism to lock, no stupid dust cap to lose because its not included, and those dont matter anyway. You dont need a dust cap, stop it. Theyre smaller than the majority of other flash drives. Theyre perfectly contoured and shaped to fit firmly between your thumb and index finger so that theyre extremely comfortable and easy to insert. When you push them in, they go in. When you pull them out, they come out. Youll be at least 50% less likely to insert them upside-down, and they just work. I use them for everything. Its the best USB stick Ive ever had attached to a keychain with 2 huge truck keys, 4 other car keys, 3 tool box keys, 4 work keys, and 5 house keys as well as some rappelling gear. Years like this. I work every day, and my keys are always with me. They get banged around, have been inserted and ejected into dozens if not hundreds of Macs and PCs at home and at work and have never failed. I still have and use every one of them Ive ever bought, and in every storage capacity available since they were first produced. They have hundreds of uses. Game storage, backups, installer media, bootable operating systems, automobile service records, presentations, desktop, documents, downloads, library, movies, music, pictures, sites, shared. All of the software I need to do my job, right there on the keychain. PDF service manuals for the equipment I repair go with me everywhere. I guess you could put stupid stuff like homework, or passwords or porn on it, but I dont because those things arent fun. Well, mostly not fun... Its more fun to plug your whole music library into one of the USB slots on your brand new, shiny, technology-packed, voice-activated 6.1 digital surround sound equipped loaded premium model 4x4 truck and tell your truck what you want to hear. Its safer, too. For you and everybody else. Of course the truck is optional, but if your vehicle is equipped with these technologies, please do this. Youll never be the distracted one. The Cruzer Blade is perfect for this in the hot summer and in the cold of winter. I know this for a fact. Years like this. Always available. It will even let you use your phone storage for more useful and practical things, or it could even allow you to buy the smaller, less expensive, less storage capacity model of the same phone saving you hundreds of dollars. If you wanted to listen to music on the go, everything everywhere has USB, and its all louder and sounds better than your phone. Go out to your truck and get it. Problem solved. Phone stays charged. Pros: If you need a RED and BLACK, tough, simple, durable, stealthy USB 2.0 flash drive, then this is the best one ever made. Indisputable champion. Cons: The form factor hasnt changed over the years, WHICH IS FANTASTIC! Dont change them in any physical or functional way... but the microscopic painted lettering eventually wears away on both sides, so you dont know if its a 16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB or 128 GB? You just know that its the red and black one. I wish like crazy these things came in a dozen different colors. Maybe even get creative and make one that glows in the dark? Or polished Aluminum? Woodgrain? Tortoise shell? Burl? Clear? Of course I have nothing against red and black... Im just sayin... its the only way it could be improved, I dont know that any of this qualifies as a con? I have zero complaints with the quality of this product and my experience with using them. Im sorry if I hurt your feelings, red and black. Long live the red and black Cruzer Blade USB 2.0 flash drives!

Great portability,fast USB.

Just pop in onto your laptop and load it. Easy to use.

Price is good though this is just USB 2.0.

My newest SanDisk flash drive. The last couple have the same thing that I do not like. The metal plug that you insert into the USB jack is no longer made of steel, now its aluminum and pretty darn flimsy. Guess Ill have to spend a bit more and maybe Ill get steel again...then again, maybe not when you consider that pretty much everything is being made more cheaply/reduced in amount or quantity/just plan lower quality. I dont abuse anything but sometimes stuff happens. This drive was bought to replace one that I put my foot down on, literally, I was able to straighten the plug and copy all my data to another flash drive, I wasnt at home at the time and the files werent on the Cloud yet, but this has made me rethink using a flimsy drive to transfer any important files. Still, the price is right and forewarned is forearmed. SanDisk makes a good product and I pretty much use just their SD and CompactFlash cards as well as the flash drives. Only giving 4 Stars because of the plug.

Im cleaning up old stuff I failed to review before. I used it just didnt say anything. Except for the 1 or 2 of these, and SSDD drives, lost. I never had a problem with them! I write songs, and play Blues Harp, record with a guy in a studio (NOT professional) on 1st an old iMac, dont know OS, now another iMac, Yosemite OS 10.11.6 my files get copied to Flash, or SSDD on Tascam or Zoom recorders, than transfer, open and adjust, on my MacBook Pro! The adjust is only cut excess from front and back and minor volume adjustments. I have yet to be able to add drum, bass, or rithym guitar. Im a musician so Ill never Know It All! LOL

Original: Bought this drive which is supposed to have a 128GB capacity plugged it in yo find out that the capacity is only 32GB. False advertising, buyer beware. Update: Windows had the druve formated to FAT32 which limited its capacity to 33GB. I had to reformat the drive using Ridgecrop which restored the original 128GB.