- home
- reviews
- news
- downloads
- cnet tv
On BNET: Is the Mac finally ready for the office?
- log in
- join CNET
- welcome,
- my profile
- log out

SanDisk Cruzer Micro (2GB, black)

Add to my list
Print
E-mail
Share

Average user rating: 2.0 stars out of 49 reviews Back to product review
My rating: 0 stars

2 of 49

Full user review

8 out of 8 people found this review helpful

4.5 stars

"This drive is NOT that slow...you can make it fast"

by dumplings726 on August 17, 2006

Pros: Very compact, nice design imo, lanyard

Cons: I didnt like U3 but some might
Summary: I just wanted a decent USB drive for a reasonable price so i got this drive. At first I was somewhat annoyed not because of the U3 partition but because of the agonizingly slow write speed (read speed is lightning quick). I was about to return it but I was lazy and instead tried tweaking it a bit. I removed U3 with the uninstaller that sandisk has online and then formated it to FAT (not FAT32 since the limitations of FAT dont affect this drive). I tried NTFS but FAT was much faster.

I clocked around 8-9Mb/s with single file writing and around 3-5Mb/s for folders with MANY small files. XP is very slow in writing many small files because by default it doesnt have a writing cache (which is good if you just want to pull out your USB drive instead of using "safely remove hardware"). The read speed was still extremely fast, I didnt clock but I'm guessing around 15Mb/s or faster? I'm pretty satisfied because I just moved a 900Mb file from my desktop at work to my computer at home in less than 2 min.

I haven't tried other options but I've looked around. I bet the ones that say 15mb/s write speed are probably faster but I don't really want to spend that kind of money for something thats meant to be inexpensive. I mean I'd rather buy a disk drive than flash memory if I needed that kind of performance.
Updated
the link in case anyone was wondering

http://sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1415
Updated
in case anyone was having trouble finding it

http://sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1415

Thank you for submitting your feedback!

Was this review helpful? YES | NO

Report this post Email this post

Reply to this review

1 reply to this review

reply by: aneilmishra on August 8, 2007

Even after removing the proprietary software, and making it a simple USB storage device, the write speed was still abysmal.

AKM

Report this post

Write review Back to product review See all 49 reviews

Submit your reply

Where to buy

SanDisk Cruzer Micro (2GB, black): $6.65

store	price	in stock?	rating
Amazon.com Marketplace	$6.65	Yes

see prices from 1 store

Thanks for your submission!

Thank you for helping us maintain CNET's great community.

Submit your review

SanDisk Cruzer Micro (2GB, black)

ORLog in with your Facebook account

1. Rate this product:: (Mouse over the stars to rate this product and click to set your rating.)
2. One-line summary:(Summarize your review in one line. 10 characters minimum; required.): 0 of 55 characters
3. Pros:(Tell us what you like about this product. 10 characters minimum; required.): 0 of 250 characters
4. Cons:(Tell us what you don't like about this product. 10 characters minimum; required.): 0 of 250 characters
Bottom-line summary:(Explain to us in detail why you like or dislike the product, focusing your comments on the product's features and functionality, and your experience using the product. This field is optional.): 0 of 5000 characters; Submit