SimpleTech 1GB Bonzai Xpress USB 2.0 Flash Drive

1 GB Pininfarina BonzaiXpress USB 2.0 Flash Drive

Strengths: None.

Weakness: Not reliable.

The slowness is shocking; however, even worse is the tendency to cross-link files. Numerous "Checkdisk" clean-ups, and one reformatting, all within one week, make this unit too unreliable to use. The "Safely Remove Hardware" tool always was used, but cross-links occur and recur.

SimpleTech 1GB Bonzai Xpress USB 2.0 Flash Drive

Strengths: Cheap, attractive, plug & play, USB1.1/2.0, 2 year warranty, website support, supports Win98SE and higher and Apple OS 8.6 and higher

Weakness: Slow access, loose cap (not attached) might be easy to lose, no cable, no lanyard, no write protection, no security software

Got this for $5 AR from buy.com. It looks and operates like most other USB drives in the sense that it is plug & play (requires drivers for win98) and allows the user to drag and drop files to/from it. Regarding the slow access times users have been reporting, I did some tests and it seems that there are actually 2 problems: slow write and some sort of file management problem where it takes some...

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Very SLOW!

Strengths: Sleek appearance

Weakness: Very slow transfer speeds Unresponsive technical support

This USB flash drive was my first purchase from Simpletech and is likely my last. The drive is advertised as having write speeds of up to 6mb/sec and read times of up to 8mb/sec. On a USB 2.0 port, the fastest write time I got was .5mb/sec. That's right...one-half mb per second, less than 10% of the advertised transfer rate. At Simpletech's advertised speeds, a 120 mb file should transfer in 20...

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SimpleTech 1GB flash drive

Strengths: 1 GB storage and reusable.

Weakness: Extremely slow and web support is horrible. USB2.0 is not working at all. IT is even slower then standard 1.0 In My Opinon.

I would not buy from simpletech again. The worst web support ever, no 24/7 and does not respond emails. Have been trying to contact support all weekend and no respond at all. I guess this drive is not defect since other reviews have the same problem. But anyway, going to complain about this slow speed transfer is insane. they LIED about the the usb 2.0 speed totally. Finally RMA the drive and...

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Just like substitute of a CD-RW

Strengths: reusable, relatively low price

Weakness: extremely low writing speed

I bought it @ buy.com for $30 - $10 (google check out) - $15 (Mail-in rebate)= $5 I'm wondering that it really support USB 2.0. The writing speed is at least 10 times lower than reading speed. Really slow.

SimpleTech is a Nightmare

Strengths: Cheap.

Weakness: Everything about this is a weakness: speed, reliability, constant corruption of files.

I bought two of these; one locked me out of the important data in it, I had to spend $250 at a data recovery center, because every computer I used said it (the flash drive) was not formatted. Second one corrupted every file I copied to it, so that I could burn a CD on another computer of the files I'd had on my primary laptop. It took hours to copy files that other flash drives, like Kingston and...

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BONSAI EXPRESS

Strengths: LOW PRICE NICE DESIGN

Weakness: LOW LOW LOW SPEED

I BOUGHT THIS IN BUY.COM WAS GOOD PRICE 10 DISCOUNT FORM GOOGLE PLUS REBATE BUT THE USB IS HORRIBLE IS VERY LOW BUT WHEN MENTIONED LOW I THINK IS I PAY THE PRICE REGULAR WAS THE WORSE SHOPPING I MAKE IF YOU BUY THIS BUY ONLY WITH A GOOD REBATE OR PROMOTION

A MUST BUY

Strengths: Super price, works well and nice look

Weakness: none

The Ferrari of the USB flash drives. Ultra fast data transfer speeds with this portable plug and play hi-speed USB 2.0 for a super price and a designer look. A MUST BUY.

Two different ones failed--wiped out all data

Strengths: cheap

Weakness: slow, but worse--they LOSE ALL THE DATA!

slow--but worse---I bought two---one for a friend and one for me. My friends died a couple of months ago and all the data was lost. I assumed it was just a rare bad one---two days ago, my Simple Tech flash drive DIED---and took all my data with it. I have taken good care of this drive. I know that these devices can fail, but this brand failed me twice. I have other brands which are still going...

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simpletech 1gb flash drive

Strengths: stylish

Weakness: no build-in key chain

I got this drive at cheap price. I am pretty happy with it. The transfer speed is not slow compared to other flash drives, maybe this is because I do not tranfer many large files. I would buy one if they are on sale again.