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I like to keep a flash drive on my key chain but the plastic cases all seem to break after 3-4 months use. The drives themselves still work, but not whatever contraption that it had to hold it to a key chain. With this flash drive, I feel confident it will make it longer. The drive housing is metal and feels very solid. It is also very easy to take off of a key chain which I really like. As far as data transfer goes, it seems fast enough. Not the fastest one I have ever used but works fine anyway. Installed TrueCrypt on it day one for a portion of the drive and it works like a champ. Overall a great drive that I highly recommend.

Just got this, so I can't speak to how it holds up long term, but had no problem copying a bunch of folders with my important reference documents (plus some family photos) onto it. The big difference between this one and most of the others is that it has a "serious" and tailored look. It's not very big, but the frame of the drive is a nice polished steel which gives it a solid look and a substantial, expensive feel when you hold it. Much heavier than most flash drives -- clearly not for those who need to carry around multiple flash drives for storing tons and tons of huge files. But if you're a relatively light user like me, using it only for business documents & simple presentations(versus photos, videos and songs) this is a great choice to put in your briefcase. It is attractive and "grown-up" looking, not at all rinky-dink if you need to use it during client meetings, presentations, etc. Actually it also has a bit of "camouflage" benefit too since it doesn't look much like a flash drive when closed, it would probably be taken for a novelty key ring. And the built in hook is extremely convenient for attaching to a key-ring or any other place where it won't get lost.

I used to this to carry on clip on my back pack, keys, or just about belt loops. Its pretty hand and probably has lasted me longer than any of the other USB drives.

Works great, has a good transferring speed. I have mine loaded up to 5 GB so far no problems. I use it as a music mp3 player, I connect it to my car's CD player, plays it well, holds on to high quality of music.

I've been a user of flash drives for many years now, and the biggest issue for me has always been attaching them to my keychain. Frankly, most have very poor attachment mechanisms, with rings no better than a dollar store novelty. Naturally, the best solution is some type of solid attachment system, and the best I've ever found is on this adata. Whether it's a mountain-climbing grade quick release clip or not is irrelevant (I tend to believe them), as the thing works and works perfectly, with great build quality. It only comes off when I want it to and just with a simple push of the one-way flap to boot. Without doing any benchmarking, I've found the read/write speed to be perfectly fine for active read/writes (working on documents live) and moving very large files (1GB+ video files, for instance). This is the best flash drive I've ever used (beating even my previous favorite, the Lexmark swivel drive, a design that maxed out in 2GB capacities), and I trust it for all of my important book and video work. I had initially coveted the 32GB version, but the price of this 16GB was tough to beat and it really is more than enough room.