OCZ Diesel 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive

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I got the 16gb variant but apparently that product has disappeared from ncix so I'll post my review here since it's the same thing but with bigger storage. I got this when it was on sale and it's worth every penny. I went from a measly 512mb usb and now there's 8-16gbs on a tiny usb drive that's a little bit smaller than a key! Like I said, you can never have enough storage now. The transfer speeds are very fast and it has a really sexy design and it feels solid. I'm using this for work and the amount of storage is awesome. I can throw my entire music collection on it and still have plenty of space for work documents and a couple of movies and even a hd movie if i cleared my music off the thumbdrive!

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Another quality product from OCZ. USB keys are now commodities but this product seems better than comparable ones. A great improvement from my 128MB old key! This review was modfied by poster @ 11-14-09 10:59 AM

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I needed a higher capacity flash drive (only had a 1GB OCZ Rally drive before) and this one fit the bill and was pretty inexpensive.I haven't done any formal speed tests, but I haven't noticed it to be an issue (installed Windows 7 from it).The drive is well-constructed (the aluminum casing keeps me coming back to OCZ flash drives) and is very compact.

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This is a good cheap USB key. But it slower than my 1GB Sandisk Cruzer Titanium USB key which averages ~11MB/s. I needed the capacity boost s an affordable price, so I was limited in my options :P, thus the sacrifice in write speeds. Overall, a decent product and would recomment to the average user who doesn't copy a large amount of big files.

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Really like the compact design; easily fits into any pocket. Write speeds can be poor, especially with smaller files, but can reach 15 MB/s. For the price (after PM) and performance, this drive is a very good deal. I'd recommend this to anyone who occasionally needs to transfer files.