Mouseover to zoom or click to enlarge
SanDisk Cruzer® Titanium (1 GB) USB 2.0 Flash Drive (SDCZ3-1024-A10)
- Speed Rating: Approx. 87x
- Type: USB Flash Drive
- USB Interface Type: USB 2.0
- Capacity: 1 GB
- Write Speed: 13 MB/s
- Read Speed: 15 MB/s
Available From
Why are these offers here?
Lowest Price!
- Overview
-
Reviews
- Compare Prices
User ReviewRead All Reviews »
1319
Tell me, where are you driving SanDisk Cruzer?
Pros
Easy to use, good value.
Cons
u3, what the heck is this?
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Easy to use small portable flash drive.
Where is your bounty of fortune and fame?
Well, in SanDisk's Cruzer, titanium, the bounty of fortune and fame is on its one gigabyte flashdrive. This is a convenient very small keychain size portable flashdrive that plugs right into your USB 2.0 port on your computer. A sliding switch slides out the USB connector, to connect, or back in, to protect it in transit.
My Use
I am a lawyer, so I do a lot of work on computers. I work at my office, but on occasion, I want to bring a particular file home and work on it there. Sometimes emailing the file to myself is a hassle, so for me, the easiest way to carry a file is to copy it to a flash drive and bring it home that way. The SanDisk Cruzer lets me quickly and easy copy up to a Gigabyte of folders and files for use on another computer. I then finish the work at home, save it back to the SanDisk Cruzer, and load it onto my work computer. Much cheaper than a Wide area network for my limited purposes.
I also use the San Disk to regularly back up my PST file in Microsoft Outlook. Buried in Owner/local/applications/microsoft/outlook is the secret hidden file that actually contains all of the personal information that you put onto Outlook. The simplest way to back up all your contacts, to do lists, and notes from Outlook is to back up that PST file. I have another copy of Microsoft Outlook on my home computer, and by constantly updating the PST at home (by pasting the PST over it), I have a fully working backup of all my contacts on my home computer. This PST file can be over 100 megabytes, so e-mailing it is a hassle, and my old 128 mg flashdrive couldn't hold this file.
I always get a look of amazement from clients when I hold up this tiny flash drive and tell them that their corporate documents, or deed or estate planning documents are all on this tiny drive. I plug it into my computer, and save it to their file or I can print the documents right out from the flash drive.
I've also used the flash drive as an easy way to bring templates to other lawyers. Bankruptcy laws have changed all the forms, and another solo practitioner like myself was pleased when I brought my flash drive full of the updated forms so he could copy them to his computer.
Value / Description
I paid about $19.99 for this handy keychain, and to be able to simply and easily transfer a gigs worth of data onto a keychain size drive is well worth less than twenty dollars to me! The drive is not quite 2 inches long, and it is about 3/4 of an inch wide and less than half an inch thick. It also seems quite durable, the outside is metal. I am not sure if Titanium is a catchy name or actually the material that this is made out of.
Ease of Use
I plug this into the USB port on the front of my desktop tower, it shows up as a drive. I drag n' drop the files I want to it or from it. It's that easy! Once in a while the computer says I am supposed to hit the eject button in its software, which I consider a pain, half the time I forget to hit the "safely remove hardware icon". Nevertheless I've had no problems.
Take it off the keychain for best use, I found that the weight of my keys bent it just enough so that it wasn't being read in the USB port. (a Homer Simpson D'OH moment for me)
U3 Programs
What the heck is this? The Sandisk Cruzer comes with a U3 program of utilities which I have found no use for whatsoever, with the option of downloading more programs that you can download for use with the flash drive. I bought the flashdrive for one purpose, to move data from one computer to another without using e-mail. I found the U3 applications of no use, and to date, I haven't figured out what they are meant for.
Problems
I have read that others have had problems with the drive failing, I can only report my own experiences. I bought this months ago, and use it several times a week. To date I have never had a problem with corrupt data or failure to operate.
Summary
This is an easy to use flash drive that is relatively cheap. I found it to be quite good.
*title contains slightly altered lyrics to Steely Dan's Midnight Cruiser used under the fair use exception to copyright laws.
Well, in SanDisk's Cruzer, titanium, the bounty of fortune and fame is on its one gigabyte flashdrive. This is a convenient very small keychain size portable flashdrive that plugs right into your USB 2.0 port on your computer. A sliding switch slides out the USB connector, to connect, or back in, to protect it in transit.
My Use
I am a lawyer, so I do a lot of work on computers. I work at my office, but on occasion, I want to bring a particular file home and work on it there. Sometimes emailing the file to myself is a hassle, so for me, the easiest way to carry a file is to copy it to a flash drive and bring it home that way. The SanDisk Cruzer lets me quickly and easy copy up to a Gigabyte of folders and files for use on another computer. I then finish the work at home, save it back to the SanDisk Cruzer, and load it onto my work computer. Much cheaper than a Wide area network for my limited purposes.
I also use the San Disk to regularly back up my PST file in Microsoft Outlook. Buried in Owner/local/applications/microsoft/outlook is the secret hidden file that actually contains all of the personal information that you put onto Outlook. The simplest way to back up all your contacts, to do lists, and notes from Outlook is to back up that PST file. I have another copy of Microsoft Outlook on my home computer, and by constantly updating the PST at home (by pasting the PST over it), I have a fully working backup of all my contacts on my home computer. This PST file can be over 100 megabytes, so e-mailing it is a hassle, and my old 128 mg flashdrive couldn't hold this file.
I always get a look of amazement from clients when I hold up this tiny flash drive and tell them that their corporate documents, or deed or estate planning documents are all on this tiny drive. I plug it into my computer, and save it to their file or I can print the documents right out from the flash drive.
I've also used the flash drive as an easy way to bring templates to other lawyers. Bankruptcy laws have changed all the forms, and another solo practitioner like myself was pleased when I brought my flash drive full of the updated forms so he could copy them to his computer.
Value / Description
I paid about $19.99 for this handy keychain, and to be able to simply and easily transfer a gigs worth of data onto a keychain size drive is well worth less than twenty dollars to me! The drive is not quite 2 inches long, and it is about 3/4 of an inch wide and less than half an inch thick. It also seems quite durable, the outside is metal. I am not sure if Titanium is a catchy name or actually the material that this is made out of.
Ease of Use
I plug this into the USB port on the front of my desktop tower, it shows up as a drive. I drag n' drop the files I want to it or from it. It's that easy! Once in a while the computer says I am supposed to hit the eject button in its software, which I consider a pain, half the time I forget to hit the "safely remove hardware icon". Nevertheless I've had no problems.
Take it off the keychain for best use, I found that the weight of my keys bent it just enough so that it wasn't being read in the USB port. (a Homer Simpson D'OH moment for me)
U3 Programs
What the heck is this? The Sandisk Cruzer comes with a U3 program of utilities which I have found no use for whatsoever, with the option of downloading more programs that you can download for use with the flash drive. I bought the flashdrive for one purpose, to move data from one computer to another without using e-mail. I found the U3 applications of no use, and to date, I haven't figured out what they are meant for.
Problems
I have read that others have had problems with the drive failing, I can only report my own experiences. I bought this months ago, and use it several times a week. To date I have never had a problem with corrupt data or failure to operate.
Summary
This is an easy to use flash drive that is relatively cheap. I found it to be quite good.
*title contains slightly altered lyrics to Steely Dan's Midnight Cruiser used under the fair use exception to copyright laws.
