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- 16GB Wink USB Flash Drive
- Ultra-Small: 1.2 x 0.5 x 0.1 inches (30 x 12 x 2.5 mm); weighs 1/20 oz
- Waterproof; Shock resistant
- Keychain and Keyring included
- Supports Windows 7, Vista, XP, OS X, Linux
Product Description
If you want the tiniest pico USB drive on the planet look no further than the Wink drive. It measures just over an inch long, and at 0.1 inches thick it’s wafer thin. Although its size is small, its storage capacity is not. The Wink drive is available in 2GB, 4GB, 8GB and 16GB capacities. The 16GB model holds up to 5,000 MP3 songs. The Wink drive is designed to take a beating. The delicate electronics are encapsulated in a waterproof COB unit, which is in turn prote
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Previous owner of 4gb Gizmo Jr. This 16gb is smaller. Works fine. Not much that can go wrong with flash unit…it either stores files or doesn’t. Only complaint is that the hole in the plastic housing is too small to allow passage of a keychain of any type without the use of another metal circle. This connecting ring between main keychain circle and the unit forces the unit to twist sideways and no longer sit flush between car keys. Gizmo’s suffer from the same design. Would it be so hard for mfg. to make the cheap plastic hole larger initally and forego the expense of addition of extra connecting rings or other connector?
Update March,2010: Rating changed from 5 to 3: Product worked flawlessly until the day it disappeared from keychain because the plastic loop broke due to wear & tear from keys. If you plan to use this in some stationary fashion where “breakable plastic” is no issue, then it’s a fine product. But if you want to use it as advertised and intended…namely as a tiny and therefor “always handy” USB drive, then prepare to be disappointed because the plastic will not last. I learned the hard way and now use a competing product that has a metal housing and loop. Slightly thicker and heavier (by fractions of a gram), but the safety of the metal is worth the negligible difference. Search through Amazon and you’ll find the metal version from another mfg.
Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this to carry Linux around in my pocket so I could use it where ever I am. It is the right size and I like it.
Rating: 4 / 5
Recieved flash drive in perfect working condition. Few weeks later accidentally killed it through formatting errors, returned it, and recieved new one within a week.
Rating: 5 / 5
On paper, this device is wonderful: Incredibly small, no moving parts, easily added to a keychain.
This device worked fine for several weeks, but then started to significantly fail.
After MOVING (not copying, but MOVING) data to the device, the device started failing in multiple ways.
-Windows XP kept complaining that the device was write protected, on a read operation!
-Several directories were visibly corrupted.
-Many data files could not be copied off the device.
-Access to several directories on the device hung Explorer.
At this point, I have some critical files that are likely lost forever. If the device failed during the write and notified the OS, I could have prevented the data loss. Instead, the device catastrophically failed after only five weeks. I also don’t even have the option to reformat the device for additional use, as Windows XP believes the device is write-protected.
I have an email into the manufacturer to seek support, but their web site is very minimal, and calling their number immediately goes to voicemail. If I get a reasonable response to my support request, I will update this review. Otherwise, I highly advise you stay away from this product (and perhaps anything from Active Media Products).
Rating: 1 / 5
Update 2/14/2010
Again, “USB device not recognized”
“One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message.”
This little thing is really a piece of junk, not stable at all. Will return it for sure. Downgrade my previous rating to 1.
2/12/2010
At the beginning Windows does not recognize it, saying a “malfunction USB device …”.
Unplug, replug, repartition, reformat to NTFS instead of FAT32, seems working now. If the “malfunction” prblem happen again I will have to return it.
then I did some write speed test (using Windows 7):
Copy a 7.32 GB huge file to it, averaged 11.1Mb/sec;
Copy a 4.37 GB huge file to it, averaged 10.3Mb/sec;
Copy a directory (1.41GB with 1683 files and 455 folders), averaged 3.57 MB/sec;
Copy a smaller direcotry (281 MB with 68 files and 15 folders), averaged 4.76 MB/sec.
However, this thing does not come with an read/write indicator (LED light or whatever) and is not convenient in some case, therefore I downgrade it to 3 stars instead of 4 stars.
Rating: 1 / 5