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| Sandisk Cruzer Micro 2gb (Black) SDCZ62048A10 | 
 enlarge | Brand: SanDisk
Category: CE
Buy New: $11.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
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MPN: sdcz62048a10
UPC: 620000000000
ASIN: B000P8JDGO
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| Customer Reviews:
let this overworked semifirmwear be a forgotten memory May 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
In a world of nearly identical, functionally flawless, and technologically beautiful products like flash drives, how do you position yourself for a competitive advantage? Sandisk decided to do this by building a better case (smart) and loading on complicated software (not smart). Regarding the first, the drive case slides over the plug for some protection. Unfortunately, the main body of the circuit board (which appears to be a switch) lights up all the time it is plugged in and is quite bright. To those of us used to drive-lights only going on when the drive is accessed, this is always somewhat disconcerting. But overall, the packaging is pretty smart.
Not, however, the software which comes with this and convinces your OS that this is actually a CD-ROM drive, and not a flash drive. That means when you just drag and drop things onto it, they may not actually be there until you figure out how to convince your computer that it can "burn" things on.
Of course, SANDISK wants you to use its own "sync" software. Which is great if that's what you want -- and if you are starting with the machine you want to be the basis for said synchronization. But if you--I'm only saying "if," you understand--want to do things your own way, you are in for a fight with Mr. Cruzer. You will have to go to Sandisk's website, download the software to assassinate said Mr. Cruzer and turn him back into a normal jump drive. And I have to say, I felt a little guilty about this. Clearly someone had put a lot of work into this, even I didn't want them to.
Lastly, SANDISK has a version that is labeled the "Alzheimer's version"--it seems that a portion of the profits go to fighting Alzheimer's disease. And that is certainly a worthy cause--I have a loved one with Alzheimer's and in no way do I consider this a joking matter--but what on earth were they thinking to label a computer memory device the "Alzheimer's version"?!? Is this their idea of a joke? Or is there an intense karma wave sploshing over silicon valley?
Or could it be a deeper point--that maybe we shouldn't be remembering quite so much as we are. After all, the Apple II came with 16K bytes of memory--or around .0008% of this drive. And we weren't stumbling around like amnesiac zombies--we remembered what we had to remember and forgot the rest. Now we seem unable to allow anything to pass into well-deserved oblivion. We return again and again to the memo written in 1987, the email of 1992, the snapshot of 1997--none of which deserve to be preserved. Let us free ourselves from guiltily obsessing about the past--out with the old, and in with the new! [46]
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