The warranty terms look nice. It's hard to say, but they may replace the product if it fails.

$45 at newegg, so the price is good.

No reviews for this particular unit at NE, but reviews on the line swing from overall positive on the 8GB to middling on the 4GB to bad on the 16GB.

shadowcat0789 wrote:"Wow that's a really big [memory] stick..."

"That's what she said."

All you need to do is speak softly and carry one of these to go far.

These things are great to use to back up all of your PS3 or X-Box 360 Files. Especially for the games in which you will probably never play again, but logged in way to many hours of your life to lose.

Newegg doesn't have any reviews at all and has it at 50% higher price (but they have a limit of 100 in case you're feeling crazy).

i dont care how reliable they are
i only want to know one thing...




are they iPad compatible

chefbooyadee wrote:(USB flash drives are small external hard drives that can easily be connected to computer peripherals such as keyboards, mice, printers, and digital electronic spies to conveniently store, share and transfer your data.)

whut.

no, no, no, no, and no.

Heh - you do have to wonder about a flash drive manufacturer whose advertising department don't know what a flash drive is for, don't you? (That part of the Woot write-up looks to be directly copy and pasted from the Centon site.)

This IS compatible with Macs

I have a 16GB that I got from here that died after about a month. I found a program that was able to force it to reformat and now it works, but if I put more than 5GB on it I get an error message. Also there was no way to get the encryption software back after I had to reformat it, Centon doesn't give it out again.

jessiebyrd004 wrote:Are you kidding me? USB drives are THIS big now?

bigger even my friend has a 64 gb and I've seen 128gb

Its a 32 gig drive. Lots of devices might not like it. Partition it into several fat32 or fat16 drives for dumb devices to work with it correctly. Just FYI. Looking though the negative reviews I see some of them are having that problem. If you know the limitations of the device you plugging it into, then it should not be a prob.

Watcher95 wrote:Wow...my 4GB Centon flash drive caught on fire while plugged into my computer two days ago. I don't recommend this to anyone for any reason. Free is to expensive for this item!

Ok, I call BS on this one.

yah i think so

ThreeDee912 wrote:Never liked USB sticks with removable caps. If I don't end up losing them, they end up falling off after a while.

Good point

ThreeDee912 wrote:Never liked USB sticks with removable caps. If I don't end up losing them, they end up falling off after a while.

Almost all of my removable caps were chewed up by my Chihuahua.

This is a great deal--my 32GB ADATA (which is incredibly slow) cost $70 less than a year ago.

As for speed, from three separate tests it seems to average about 27 MB/s read and 5 MB/s write depending on the filesystem and USB bus. Click here for the full 32GB class flash drive speed tests

This seems great. I mean the sz and all.

for what I do - I have been carrying 8 gig pony sicks for years now.

They have never failed. Even with heavy daily use - clearing and reloading. I even still have the caps.

It would be really cool to have 32gb on one stick. BUT - it looks like from what I can see that I can buy this same thing from elswhere for the same money and if it did fail - like some of the reviews I have read say it will -
I could take the dang thing back for way longer of a period of time than if i bought it here.
so if they wanna drop the price to what it really is worth buying or maybe even do a two for tuesday without raising this price.

I'd be happy to give it a go.

Doesn't seem worth it to me as is though.

I got the 16GB one over Black Friday from Fry's.

These things are slow. REALLLLLY slow. Horrifically slow. The 'Pro' just relates to the design of the device.

It's too slow for Windows 7 readyboost. It actually brings Windows Explorer to a halt when you read or write from it.

Avoid at all costs.

yah the larger drives that are cheap tend to die quick and when I say larger I mean 32gb, 64gb, and 128gb drives. If ya gona buy a large one make sure you get one that has a lifetime warranty. Not only can you lose all ya data on the drive in less than a second but then you are out that cash if it dont have a warranty.

Are these too slow for use as USB storage on an Xbox 360? I missed the December Woot for the HDD but using 16GB of space on this for storage would be nice.

dabills22 wrote:Hmm... What's the "Pro" for??

If you have to ask...

M3wThr33 wrote:I got the 16GB one over Black Friday from Fry's.

These things are slow. REALLLLLY slow. Horrifically slow. The 'Pro' just relates to the design of the device.

It's too slow for Windows 7 readyboost. It actually brings Windows Explorer to a halt when you read or write from it.

Avoid at all costs.

Srsly?? Readyboost? If you thought readyboost was going to work at all you got some homework to do.

coastwaters wrote:Wow...my 4GB Centon flash drive caught on fire while plugged into my computer two days ago. I don't recommend this to anyone for any reason. Free is to expensive for this item!

Actual FIRE? I'm so jealous! Do you have any more?

techscott wrote:bigger even my friend has a 64 gb and I've seen 128gb

hawt

you and your friends compare each others external sticks

"...who's got the biggest??? :D"

"Speed: Standard Speed" means it works great as a USB storage device, but is not fast enough to be used as "ReadyBoost" device. Still a good price however.

ShadowPhoenix wrote:Big question. Does anyone know how fast this is? I know generally flash drives are 5-20 Megabytes/second, and would love to know how this one falls. In addition, how are seek times, etc on it?

If anyone has one please run some bench tools on it.

Seek drives don't exist with flash drives (no heads to move), but here's what I could dig up:
Average read speed is 27MB/s and average write speed is 5MB/s, depending on the USB host and what filesystem the drive is formatted with. If you're interested, click here for the full 32GB class speed comparisons.

If you go to newegg .com, they have some choices for flash drives, they had another 32gb one that is $38 with free shipping and has better reviews than this one. Patriot Xporter Dash 32gb usb 2.0 it was called.

grif wrote:Srsly?? Readyboost? If you thought readyboost was going to work at all you got some homework to do.

I had no plans on it, but that's just a general barometer. This averaged well under a 2MB/s write speed.

It's quicker for me to upload/download off the Internet than write to his.

It's big enough to throw a Blu-Ray on and watch with your media player.

texanfromin wrote:The warranty terms look nice. It's hard to say, but they may replace the product if it fails.

I hope they would also guarantee replacing all lost data.

The good news:

It's Mac compatible and a reasonable price!


The bad news:

It's not a very reliable brand as evidenced by mediocre reviews.

According to the picture, there doesn't appear to be any hook for sliding it onto a key ring. That would be a deal breaker for me, although other people might not care.

In any case I already bought a Lexar 32 GB USB flash drive form Office Depot back on Black Friday, for $49.99. Obviously this is much cheaper compared to that, but it's been 2-1/2 months since then. And the way prices keep dropping like a rock on flash USB drives, that was a fair price then and this is a fair price now.

One other word of warning: About 2 years ago I attempted to buy a 16 GB flash drive on eBay from a Chinese supplier. When it arrived and I loaded it up, my files became corrupted. So I returned it and got my money back, and attempted to buy another one from a different Chinese supplier, but ran into the same problem. Eventually I concluded that it was a scam: The USB drives only contained 8 GB chips, but a couple of the address lines must have been shared, to make it look like 16 GB. The average user might take a long time to fill it beyond the first 8 GB, and until then it would work fine. By the time you discovered that exceeding 8 GB resulted in over-writing existing files, it would be too late for most people to return the drive and demand a refund.

All of which is a long-winded way of explaining why I now only buy reputable name brands. I know nothing about this particular company, but its reputation (or lack thereof) should be a major consideration. And if you get the USB flash drive, check it out to make sure it indeed covers the full address range with no duplication.

Well knowing that the memory chips are probably made by samsung, I dont believe that the buyer beware argument is valid. Regardless, its less than $1/GB. If i didn't already have a 32GB flash drive I would snatch up one of these.

So not only do people trash talk the item they say they have a group of friends who do not like the item...... So when you read reviews online do you consider those people your friend? Maybe you just have a flash drive group you attend?

mklawiter wrote:To answer the question directly, yes, it will work on both PC and Mac.

http://www.centon.com/usb/styles/pro
Go to 'Details' and look under 'Features'.


Though I do wonder why people don't read the description. Not that it was hard to find info on their own site saying that it is, but it's on woot's main page too.

Most flash drives nowadays are FAT-32 formatted, which are compatible on PC,Mac, and Linux even.

If not, you can always reformat the drive anyways.

Large hard drives, however, are OS specific out of the box.

techscott wrote:bigger even my friend has a 64 gb and I've seen 128gb

I read somewhere that there are 256gb flash drives out there. You'll probably see 1tb soon enough!!

dabills22 wrote:Hmm... What's the "Pro" for??

According to Centon's website and flyer the Pro is for it's "Aluminium Casing and Affordable Storage". Really its a "design" instead of their NASCAR line. As seen here: Centon Pro Style

kitcatbrat wrote:Stew-pid question...this will work on both PCs and macs, right?

Depends how you format it. FAT32 = Perfectly compatible on both.

NTFS will have permissions issues and if you format it HFS+, ext3 or ext4 you will need a special program to view its contents in Windows.

I've had this brand before. It was the 8 gig stick, but looked just like this one. My biggest complaint: The case actually came off at some point. And I'm not rough with my flash drives. Also, after the case came off, it was pron to damage... which it did get.

I have one. Nothing great, nothing bad. The aluminum housing does give it a very sturdy, almost macho, feel though. And the price is great. The only improvement I'd make to this, and other USB flash drives, is to either put a tether on the cap or make it retractable.