OCZ 1GB Mini-Kart USB Thumb Drive

Rob Williams · 06-15-2006, 08:57 PM

As flash memory becomes a more mature technology we see physical sizes going down while capacities go up. Today we take a look at a product that takes the reduced physical size to the extreme and find out at what premium does this reduced size come.

Discuss Matts review here!

RazorBack · 06-16-2006, 01:21 PM

Wow that's small! I would just be so worried about breaking it... but still 1gb in something that small is not something you can laugh at.

madmat · 06-16-2006, 01:23 PM

The 1 gig model is the mid-range. It comes in 2 gigs and 512mb.

06-19-2006, 09:50 AM

This looks suspiciously like my "Super Talent"-made flash drive I've had for about a year...

05-17-2007, 06:44 PM

"57.5ms ... roughly half a second" More like, roughly half of a tenth of a second. It takes 1000 milliseconds to make a second, not 100.

Nice review though.

Merlin · 05-18-2007, 10:12 AM

I remember getting a computer with a 1.6 gig hard drive, thinking I'd never fill that up........And now we have a small chip to replace that old drive.
I have an XD card in my camera with 1 gig storage.
So technology marches forward.
I have read about fluid technology where mechanical drives for storage were going to be antique.
There seems to be a two to three year jump in technology, making what we have outdated too soon.
Deckard

06-15-2006, 08:57 PM	#1
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	OCZ 1GB Mini-Kart USB Thumb Drive As flash memory becomes a more mature technology we see physical sizes going down while capacities go up. Today we take a look at a product that takes the reduced physical size to the extreme and find out at what premium does this reduced size come. Discuss Matts review here! __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

06-16-2006, 01:21 PM	#2
RazorBack E.M.I. Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 51	Wow that's small! I would just be so worried about breaking it... but still 1gb in something that small is not something you can laugh at. __________________ AMD64 3800+ @ Stock MSI Neo2 Plat Mobo 512mb DDR3200 ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 2x 74gb Raptors in RAID0 160gb Samsung IDE Thermaltake Armour Case OCZ Powerstream 520W Dell 2405FPW 24" TFT Logitech G5 Saitek Eclipse

06-16-2006, 01:23 PM	#3
madmat Soup Nazi Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: No soup for you! Posts: 1,636	The 1 gig model is the mid-range. It comes in 2 gigs and 512mb. __________________ M4N82 Deluxe Phenom II 940 Black Edition quad core @ 3.5Ghz 2x1 gig OCZ PC26400 Platinum, 2x1gig GSkill PC26400 EVGA GTX260 Buncha drives, Some other stuff, Even more stuff, If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. --Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine Sign Me!

05-17-2007, 06:44 PM	#5
Unregistered Guest Poster Posts: n/a	error! error! error! "57.5ms ... roughly half a second" More like, roughly half of a tenth of a second. It takes 1000 milliseconds to make a second, not 100. Nice review though.

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06-19-2006, 09:50 AM	#4
Unregistered Guest Poster Posts: n/a	This looks suspiciously like my "Super Talent"-made flash drive I've had for about a year...

05-18-2007, 10:12 AM	#6
Merlin The Tech Wizard Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Lakeland, Fl Posts: 1,855	I remember getting a computer with a 1.6 gig hard drive, thinking I'd never fill that up........And now we have a small chip to replace that old drive. I have an XD card in my camera with 1 gig storage. So technology marches forward. I have read about fluid technology where mechanical drives for storage were going to be antique. There seems to be a two to three year jump in technology, making what we have outdated too soon. Deckard