Digital Camera: Buffalo RUFC4GU2 4GB USB High Speed Flash Drive

I actually purchased the 2Gb Buffalo drive but to all intents and purposes it is the same. First off the bad news - the casing is fairly flimsy and after regular use the pastic lugs which clip the cap onto the body wear away (as has happened with mine). The space at the back to clip the cap to also doubles as the loop for adding it to your keyring so it's either one or the other I'm afraid. Having said all that the pros are that it is extremely cheap compared to other similar drives and very reliable. It's trump card was going through our washing machine in my jeans and working fine afterwards with no loss of data (after a day to dry off).

Working with eboostr on Windows XP posted on 2008-04-18

I bought this USB High Speed Flash Drive to support emulation of Windows Vista's 'ReadyBoost and SuperFetch technologies' on Windows XP. Separate software called eboostr will do the emulation using a fast USB memory stick.

Typical average test speeds I get are:
Drive Access: 5.32 MB/s
Cache enabled access speed: 12.63 MB/s

This is more than fast enough. I hope this helps you decide if this USB memory is fast enough for you and your particular usage.

This product is used with my laptop in my workshop and the build construction is fine for that. I am not to sure how long it wold it have survived in my road warrior days - but for the price you do get good performance and a useful little USB cable

Excellent value. posted on 2008-03-08

I have one of these devices for personal use and another couple at work. I have been using them for months and have never experienced any problems. I would recommend this item anyway but at this price it's a no brainer!

Excellent for the price posted on 2008-01-13

Overall every impressed with this drive. Not the fastest avaliable as mentioned previously but physically sound. This is not one of those devices that you can abuse too much so dont go leaving this is your washing to get soaked or you may find it brake on you very quickly the lid seems tight and solid.
Recommended as a spare backup

Follow up: I hav now had the same problem as other customers have had with the computer no longer viewing the contents of the drive.. A solution to this is to go to the computer management console by right clicking on my computer and selecting manage. Go to the disk management and right click on the removeable drive and select change drive letter and paths and change change to another drive between E and Z... that should solve it... I used to ontrack easy recovery to retreive all of the work before hand just so i didnt loose it.

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