Product Description

LaCie IamaKey 8GB USB Flash Drive Design by 5.5 Designers

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #201 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: LaCie
• Model: 130870
• Released on: 2009-03-09
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 2.24" h x .12" w x .94" l, .12 pounds
• Hard Disk: 4GB

Features

• Sturdy metal key design; fits on a keyring
• Fast transfer rates (Read mode: up to 30 MB/s; w
• Ultra-mobile and lightweight
• Gold SIP technology water- and scratch-resistant
• Max Interface Transfer Rate: up to 480Mbits/s

Manufacturer's Description
With the new LaCie iamaKey, inventive storage meets data protection. The key-shaped design is functional and memorable and the protection that the LaCie iamakey offers makes it extremely reliable. Best of all you can fit an enormous amount of data in a small flash drive. With the Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface, iamaKey can be used with both PC and Macs, offering universal compatibility and cross-platform convenience, but features a hot-pluggable connection and high-speed transfer rates plus is Windows ReadyBoost compatible. The eye-catching design makes the iamaKey stand out. The connector is both water and scratch-resistant, making it one of the most durable and thinnest USB keys on the market. Protective edges on the connectors ensure that you'll always insert the LaCie iamaKey properly, keeping it usable and safe.

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Customer Reviews

great design, but *very* slow
The design is amazing - very flat, but feels very sturdy with a very nice weight. It caused suitable "oohs" and "aahs" when I showed it around. But... and it's a big but... This is the slowest USB drive I've ever had. Slower probably than the old USB 1.0 ! I've tried reformatting, but no... it's just very slow. So for small files you want to backup, it's great. For emergencies, it's great. But if you want to copy that 30Mb Powerpoint presentation in the 10 seconds that remain before the train comes to a stop, forget it.

great product
very nice, shiny metal, slim and handy flash drive. a bit slower than expected.
somebody could miss the led indicating writing on flash drive, but it wouldn't fit the design. I already got used to it.

A real let-down
On the face of it, this is an excellent concept; a USB key without any of the bulk, making it a very appealing proposition for those of us who want as little bulk as possible in our pockets.

The Iamakey worked great for me... for about 3 days. Then the following day I arrived in work to find that the key simply wouldn't work. My PC would recognise a removable drive, but it couldn't read from it, write to it, or even format it. It was as if the disk controller within the device had failed. Even worse, I'd lost a key presentation I was working on that I was due to present that day.

Even now I am not sure what caused the key to fail. However on testing it further, it became clear that the contact between the key and any USB socket (and believe me I tried a few) was very easy to break. This "open top" design is all well and good for cutting down on size, but in my experience the reality is that it means the device doesn't get a good, solid connection to the USB socket.

Any which way, the Cruzer 4Gb key I was using for some 2 years before (with no faults - ever!) is now back on my keychain, and I think I will steer well clear of these open-styled USB keys. After all, if you do not have complete faith in a device operating 100% of the time, you simply aren't going to trust it or make any use of it. A shame, as this could have been a really amazing bit of kit...