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It loads quickly, and lights up when it's in use. I use it for watching movies on my PS3 and transferring games to my friend's PC. HP makes quality stuff.

I bought v125w based on its low cost ($20 AR at local store), and became dismayed over its slow transfer speed. For quick comparison, I had it benchmarked against my other USB flashdrives including 8GB Patriot Xporter XT, 1GB Sandisk Cruzer Mini, and 2GB generic. The average transfer rate as tested by HD Tune 2.54 was 13.2 MB/sec for HP, followed by 30 MB/sec, 18.1 MB/sec, and 22.5 MB/sec, respectively. All were formatted to FAT32.

The test speaks loudly for the performance or lack of on the HP. As long as you are not critical about transfer rate, this inexpensive device does provide ample storage space.

Updated (12/13/09): Just purchased 16Gb Patriot Xporter Dash as the replacement for HP. It had an average transfer rate of 28.1 MB/sec. The difference is staggering, so be sure to test out the speed against your other USB flashdrives if you do purchase the HP.

The HP 125w 8 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive is an excellent product. I like several features of this flash drive.

First, the cap fits on the tail end. Being rather forgetful, I misplace caps. Without a cap the connection can collect foreign matter and decrease the quality of the connection to a computer.
This nice clear cap fits comfortably on the rear end of the drive, which solves my problem.

Second, the case is well constructed. Some of the other flash drives I have seen look very fragile, this HP drive is sturdy.

Third, this drive seems faster than others that I have owned. I transfers files twice as fast as the first flash drive I used, and about twenty percent faster than my HP 100w.

Fourth, a light turns on when it is working, and does not stop until the work is finished. This helps me monitor my work and ensure its completion.

This flash drive is the best I have used. I highly recommend this merchandise.

This product is great! For all those people that said it is slow, I agree to that if you do not format it when you recieve it. It comes already formatted with a FAT32 partition that only reads and writes around 2-3 megabytes per second. However, if you format it with NTFS partition, I am writing to it on an average of about 20 MBS and reading at double that speed. Its a great little product and I have a full windows running off of it wherever I go! I love HP!

It's spacious, fast and reliable. It doesn't come with pre-installed software which means its ready to be used the moment you connect it to your computer. It is priced reasonable and I highly recommend it.