SanDisk Ultra Cruzer Titanium 16GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) Model SDCZ7-016G-A11

Pros: -Fast -Durable -Small -Attractive -Relatively cheap I got about 25/mbps transfer (or so it said)... I feel like it was even faster than that.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I really like the titanium shell. It feels good in my hand - I hate to have valuable data on something plasticy and cheap.

Pros: Extremely robust construction. I previously owned the 4GB model and bought this 16GB for the same reason. It will take tons of abuse and daily use. The speeds are as advertised under typical use.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: This unit is much heavier than typical plastic flash drives, but that's to be expected for a titanium construction. It's definitely not noticeable unless you're holding it in your hand. However, it does give confidence in the build quality. I use this as my do-all flash drive. From it I can boot into: WinPE Trinity Rescue Kit Backtrack 4 Kon-Boot Ophcrack DBAN NTPASSWD I can also install Windows 7, Vista, and XP from the drive. Customized GRUB menu with all the options laid out right there. The 16GB size makes this really slick, and still leaves room for decent file transfers.

Pros: Retractable. Small and durable

Cons: Very Slow.

Overall Review: I had a 16gb Transcend that was twice as fast as the Ultra Cruzer writing to the drive, however the cheap plastic casing fell apart after about two weeks. I just bought a 8gb Kingston Datatravler HyperX retractable and it is much, much faster. For instance my daily backup up would take on average about 11 1/2 mins with the Sandisk and it now takes only 3 min or less with the Kingston making the exact same backup of mixed file sizes.

Pros: Nice looking

Cons: Slow! Slow! Slow!

Overall Review: This is the slowest USB flash drive I own. After receiving it (9 days in transit, but thats another story) I did a couple of tests. This drive was handily beat out by my Super Talent 16GB drive. My 3 1/2 gig test took a whole 3 minutes longer than than the Super Talent drive and only averaged 5 Mb/sec whereas the Super Talent averaged 6.25Mb/sec. If you are copying anything more than a few meg, be prepared to wait and wait and wait.

Pros: fast, durable, compact, usb connector retracts smoothly

Cons: none that i can think of

Pros: It is fast enought to stream music or video on your PC, it has a ton of storage and it is made of metal and retracts. Will take a beating!

Cons: Light is now orange, the older Cruzer Titaniums were blue.

Pros: It has a nice sturdy metal casing, and doesn't feel too cheap to constantly have in one's pocket. Plenty of capacity for a relatively low price, or at least much more so than the 32 GB ones out there. Wait six months; they'll get down there.

Cons: Large, obnoxious orange LED. As expected, it blinks with activity. But it also slowly pulses on and off whenever it's idle. Combined with the sheer size of the light (the entire plastic white latch part), it is quite distracting when the drive is in one's field of view when working on something.

Overall Review: U3: If you like it, it's there. If you don't like it, it's fairly easy to remove. Google for u3 uninstall to find the uninstaller. Reportedly there's an OS X version now, too.

Pros: Pretty, shiny, titanium case. Feels good in your hand.

Cons: This is the slooowest USB drive that I own. I have a Patriot 8GB that is at least twice as fast. The slider doesn't lock in place which makes it difficult to insert in a tight USB port.

Overall Review: Should have stuck with the Patriot brand but this was just so pretty.