Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: ByteStor
• Model: BSPEN-USB2.0-4GB-DF
• Released on: 2007-01-09

Manufacturer's Description
The massive 4GB of storage creates more possibilities: carry more images, movies and MP3s at higher quality, and backup and transfer large amount of data.

The new ByteStor Flash Pen Drive makes data transfer easy. Move, save, copy, delete and run files from the USB drive in the same way you would from your computer's hard-disk.

1. Insert the Flash Drive in a computer's USB Socket

2. Drag and drop any type of file onto the Flash Drive.

3. Insert the Flash Drive into another computer and all the files can be accessed instantly.

It couldn't be easier. No Drivers are needed (except for Windows 98 SE).

Got a laptop? What will you do if the hard-drive fails? Backup all those important files on a ByteStor "Dataferry" USB Flash Drive.

Presentations, spreadsheets etc can be run straight from the drive. No need to copy them to your hard-drive.

The perfect gift for anyone that owns a computer.

Customer Reviews

Reliable and good value for money
I bought mine over a year ago and use it quiet a lot, never had a single problem with it. Ultra light and simply good value for money.
I just wish it had a security softare inside, for password encryption, as it stands it doesn't have any security. So looses 4 starts because of that! Security is the top priority when you want to have such a small device to store important documents.

Wish I had bought this before
I needed to transfer over 60GB of photos, music and data to another machine so that I could format one of my storage partitions. A long and tedious session of DVD backups resulted in a few corrupt files so I set about looking for a non network solution and found these wonderful gadgets.

I have now transferred all my data, corrected the problem on the data partition and ferried the data back from the backup machine all without a hitch and it was not too slow.

One regret is that I did not buy the 8GB version because many of my folders were too big to put on the 4GB device all at once. As I am intending to buy a Vista machine soon and will be distributing my large photo collection and other data between this and two other XP machines for permanent backups in addition to DVD I may buy the 8GB version and use this one to carry important data around with me in my handbag, it's so small.

With regard to the size, yes it is small and you have to be careful not to lose it but what I did was to attach it to a short connecting cable that came with an MP3 player and therefore there was no strain on the business end of the device. It also made it easier to find if I dropped it.

I would suggest to anyone who found the device slow that maybe their machine was lacking in sufficient memory or they were trying to run other memory hungry processes at the same time. I am running XP Pro with lGB memory. I found it was best to let the data transfer have all the resources available and I also rebooted a few times to free up the cache and any locked memory.

I chose free supersaver but Amazon still despatched my order of this and another item before the estimated date and I received them after just three days.

EDIT 24 July 2008 I have since installed Vista and this stick works very well as Ready Boost.

Feels cheap but works very well
USB flash drives are very individual items, what may work well for someone may not work so well for someone else. I've had a 512MB Bytestor Dataferry drive in regular use for a few years now and during that time it has worked flawlessly, despite what I would call at times excessive use. I've used it to hold and transfer music, photos and MS work files, as well as installation files for programs that I find particularly useful, and I have not once experienced any loss of data.

The 4GB version looks and feels exactly the same as the 512MB one, compact but a bit on the cheap and flimsy side with a loose cap that could be lost quite easily. There's little doubt that the outer casing wouldn't survive any sort of abuse so careful use is recommended; tougher drives are available if you need them, this one is really just for transferring files from one machine to another in as cheap a form factor as possible. The proof of the pudding would be to smash one up and see how well the innards come through the experience, but that would be something for someone far braver than me to try.

With 3.84GB of space available after formatting, the drive has so far worked without any problems although I can't really comment on the transfer speed as I haven't yet transferred any large files. It doesn't come with any instructions (although it is just plug and play) and also isn't ReadyBoost compliant, so don't buy it if you want to give Vista a helping hand.

So far, after taking off a star for the construction and the looseness of the cap, I've found very little to dislike about this drive, and for less than £11 it does seem a bit of a steal. As with any storage medium like this you'd be well advised to make sure you regularly back up anything valuable on it to CD or DVD, as no electronic item is guaranteed 100%.