This may have benefits in terms of lifetime, performance and reliability however, and it is clearly stated on the packaging that up to 10% of the capacity may be used for formatting and other functions. The Comsol 8Gb USB 2.0 Flash Stick had around 7,808,122,880 bytes available, so it seems the Verbatim drive is on the low end when it comes to the available user capacity. This is technically less than even 8-weasel-gigabytes which would have been 8,000,000,000 bytes, although it seems that this is a fairly common trend amongst lower cost devices due to the need to reserve space for more effective wear levelling, bad block replacement, and to compensate for higher bad-blocks from manufacture especially when using lower quality flash.Īs compared with some other cheap 8Gb flash drives I’ve used, the Sandisk Cruzer Facet had 7,998,799,872 bytes which was much closer to the expected capacity. The drive is pre-formatted with the FAT32 filesystem without any pre-loaded bloat, and the capacity total is 7,742,701,568 bytes. The unit identifies as a Verbatim STORE N GO device, with a VID of 18A5 and a PID of 0302.
Unlike some other low-cost drives, this unit has a “real” USB connector with gold plated pins and a raised profile, so should have a fairly good connection to host ports as compared with connections made from PCB traces. The end cap has a provision for a lanyard attachment.Ī serial number is engraved at the top side of the drive. The drive itself has the capacity engraved on the connector, and a slide-body cap which means nothing to lose. However, I somehow doubt that this selling point really resonates with customers. I don’t recommend using such software anyway, but other drives do include it as standard, so this seems somewhat curious.Īccording to the logo at the front, less plastic is used in the pacakging and it definitely seems to be the case with the plastic bubble only being on one side and minimally larger than the drive itself. The unit is Made in Taiwan with a product code of 49062, and password protection software is available, however it is only a trial. The rear has some basic information in a number of languages, but basically it’s a USB 2.0 drive with a claimed data retention of 10 years. The drive itself shows inside a clear plastic bubble, and has a striped plastic design to match its fancy PinStripe name.
The drive is packaged inside a retail hanging card, with a shiny glossy finish to the card.
The 8Gb drive costs around AU$5.98, so it’s not the cheapest around, but hopefully it’s of good quality and performance. Unlike the others though, this one comes from Verbatim which is a brand which has come to be respected due to their reputation built around floppy disks and optical discs. Yet another low-cost USB flash drive gets a review, mainly because I just happened to end up receiving it.
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