Product Description

MICRO VAULT TINY USB 2.0 4GB PRELOADED VIRTUAL EXPANDER SW IN

Product Details

• Brand: Sony
• Model: USM4GH
• Released on: 2007-08-05
• Platforms: Mac, Windows
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .20" h x 6.10" w x 1.20" l, .0 pounds

Features

• Sonyãs smallest USB flash drive plugs directly into USB 2.0 and 1.1 ports. 4GB capacity. Pre-loaded with virtual expander to virtually store 3 times as much data. Compatible with Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP and MAC OS 9 and higher.

Manufacturer's Description
The new Micro Vault "Tiny" is Sony's smallest USB flash drive with a fun, fashionable design and color-coded capacities. Measuring roughly � inch wide and just over one inch in length, the drive offers storage capacities of 256MB to 2GB, and plugs directly into standard USB ports.The new Micro Vault "Tiny" drive's fun, compact design is sure to be hit among fashion-forward professionals and students alike. It gives new meaning to the phrase "Good things come in small packages".

Customer Reviews

Compact, but slow
My speed tests show, for a 100MB file:
Sustained write speed: 1.1MB/s
Sustained read speed: 5.9MB/s

Build quality is good, it feels solid and unlikely to bend or crack while in a wallet. It also has a nice LED that blinks during activity (I use it to see when Windows has finished writing to the device). The LED is absolutely tiny and not particularly bright; which is a good thing. Anyone who has used a devidce that has a blinking Superbright LED, especially a blue one, will know they are very distracting, this one is certainly not.

It also came with a little a set of stickers:
* 5 pastel colours squares, presumably for writing on
* 5 patterned squares
* 4 circular icons: Musical note, Orange sun-icon, a yellow star on a blue background an a pink heart icon on a red background
* 5 pastel colours squares with icons of: A PC, a camera, a document (pen over paper), a musical note and a folder

And it came with a carrying case / keychain clip (made entirely from soft stretchy plastic, of the same colour as my card (purple) as well as a clip which I allows you to attach the carrying case to things (such as a paper document or your shirt / belt).

The compression software appears to work hassle free (no installation I noticed), but it's not something I care about or use so I can't comment further.

All in all, I'm very pleased with it.

Fantastic memory card
I bought this card for BD Live storage space on my Blu-ray Disc Player as it's the one Sony recommend. I didn't realise it would be so small as I traditionally use Kingston USB sticks. If you're buying one to add to a Sony BD Player the process is very simple. You just push it in the EXT socket on the back and you're done.

Best buy ever!!!!!!!!!
So, so, happy. I got this product thinking the speed was going to be a tad on the small side but I was completely wrong. Transfered 1.2 gig in about 4 minutes. I don't understand why everybody has said its so slow, the only reason I can think of is that you all run rubbish PC's???? My MAC loves this product and so do I!!!!