Fujitsu LifeBook B Series ( FPCM10194 )

Fujitsu LifeBook B Series ( FPCM10194 )
Manufacturer: Fujitsu Pc Corp, C/O Cti
Product Type: Personal Computer

Average customer rating: 3.0

small, cheap, slow
Love it
Very slow performance
nothing flashy
Okay but nothing fancy

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Manufacturer: LEXAR MEDIA INC
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000FKM39G

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USB Flash Drives

USB Flash Drives

Product Description

Behind those cool colors lies the heart of all your information. The powerful, high-speed Lexar FireFly has a simple plug-and-play design that allows you to quickly and easily transfer and store digital documents, photos, MP3 files, and video clips. So wherever you go, your information goes with you.Don't be fooled by its tiny size. The Lexar JumpDrive FireFly can hold up to 1000 of your best vacation photos, 16 hours of your favorite music, and 120 minutes of video footage from last weekend's soccer game.In addition to its attractive design, Lexar FireFly also has a tethered cap for security and a cool blue taillight LED that blinks during data transfer so you have the confidence in knowing when the job is done..

Customer Reviews:

small, cheap, slow.......2007-06-02

This is a very compact USB flash drive, with good capacity, and it is cheap. The plastic cap provides good protection. The main drawback is that this is a really really slow drive. It takes over an hour to copy 500MB onto it (from a hard drive, under Win XP). I can recommend this drive only for rarely-accessed archives, or if your time has no value.

Love it.......2007-03-08

I need to back up all my class lectures, including illustrations, and this 4GB Firefly is just what I needed. It is a little slow, but that does not worry me too much. Its design is such that the small unit is separable from the cover, and so it plugs securely into my labtop USB without having a key ring dangling from it.

Lexar are a very reliable company, and I also have two of their 1GB mass storage devices. Very satisfied with them as well.

Very slow performance.......2006-12-07

I bought the Lexar Jumpdrive Firefly 4GB as a backup device, hoping to regularly sync my My Documents folder with it. Initially I was pleased with it--it is very small in size and the 4GB capacity is plenty for my purposes. However, when I started using it I was surprised how long it took to copy over my files, a total of only 360MB. Later I noticed that it was also very slow when I did an incremental backup, which usually consisted of only a few small files that I had modified the same day.

The performance was so slow, that I decided to test the drive using the SiSoftware Sandra benchmark program. The results astonished me. The drive was at least 10 times slower than another flash drive that I owned, a SanDisk cruzer mini 1.0 GB. In fact, the Jumpdrive Firefly was the slowest drive in the benchmark program's database--its performance was only slightly better than a 3.5" floppy disk!

Needless to say this didn't work for me. Unfortunately it was too late to return the item, since I had already broken the shrink-wrap packaging (obviously). A Lexar support representative told me that the drive wasn't designed to be fast.

I don't recommend this product to anyone, unless read/write speed doesn't matter to you at all.

nothing flashy.......2006-11-17

This is my second Lexar flash drive and overall all it does what I need it to do. It is extremely small for the capacity of 4 GB and looks pretty cool. Like my last Lexar, I am not too impressed with the durability of the build but I got this at a very resonable price so I won't complain.

p.s. watch for sales at your local big box and office supply stores. You may be surprised at how cheap you can get this for.....

Okay but nothing fancy.......2006-11-14

The Lexar firefly USB flash/thumb drive is a small and compact drive that does the job. If you need a tiny flash drive for work or for casual use... it should do fine. However, overall it leaves you with a feeling that the designers could have done better and could've spent a bit more time ....well, designing it. Here are some pros and cons that I've found with these fireflys. The one I have is the 4GB, however they come in an assortment of memory capacities including 256MB(red), 512MB(green), 1GB(blue), 2GB(black), and 4GB(white). Each memory comes in a unique color. For example, the 4GB seems to only come in white, and 2GB comes in black.

Pros: Very small compact design (about as small as the Sandisk Micros), and clear protective case seems to clip and hold onto the drive pretty well. Cool blue LED at the end that flashes while reading and writing. Reads and Writes data pretty fast (though seemingly not as fast as Sandisk drives)

Cons: Pre-loaded Software on drive automatically tries to install itself on computer(personally, I hate the fact that the drive comes with pre-loaded software, but you may not mind). Plastic protective case does not come with a string or key-ring to put on keychain(only a hole to slip a key ring or string through). The Flash drive itself does not have any holes to attach directly to keyring, so if you lose the protective case, there's no way to attach the drive to your keys.(they should've included some extra protective cases in different colors just in case) The build quality looks cheap and not very sturdy looking. Colors are plain and ordinary looking with very little choices. I don't like being stuck with one color choice per memory capacity. They should've just gone with black, silver, or metallic hues.

Conclusion: If you're just looking for a nice, simple and compact portable drive with a variety of capacities, this should do the trick. Also, the price on these are dropping fast and therefore are a good value for the money. However, if your data is very important to you, you may want to go with a sturdier model (like the Sandisk Titanium)... but expect to spend more money. This flash-drive does what it claims... though it doesn't claim much. No many bells and whistles here... if you're a gadget freak, you may be left wanting more... like yours truly. However, if the price is right, it's hard to pass up a good deal. Thankfully I got a good deal (Psst ...not on Amazon)

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