Well as I had sold of my Buffalo 4 GB for the need of something bigger and better, so came the mission to find one in SP Road yesterday. I mainly had the plan to get the 4GB Corsair Voyager but the non-availability of the model made me to find an alternative as I needed the drive urgently from Monday.I have using some Transcend V10 flash drives in the past and they were quite fast compared to the V30 or even some SanDisk Kingston. So with a bit of apprehension when I saw that the 8GB Transcend V10 was just 1.6k...I just couldn't resist and bought it from Ankit Infotech
Introduction
What was once a tiny storage device to flaunt is now in the hands of almost every other PC user. Flash storage has changed the way we see and use portable storage. It is reasonably fast, very rugged (compared to hard disks), and is very small.On top of that prices are tumbling every month and even a 8GB drive like this is only 1.6k which was almost like 3k 2-3 months back
Specifications and Features
Size : 64mm x 21mm x 10mm
Data Retention : UP to 10 years
Weight : 11g
Package Contents
* 1 Transcend V10 8GB Flash Drive
* 1 neck Strap
* Jet Flash Elite Software & Win 98 Driver on mini CD
* Quick Start Guide
Looks
The JetFlash has a sliding USB connector. This convenient feature replaces a cap that can get lost or break. The connector slides into the body of the drive to keep it protected and clean.The ouside material though looks quite good...but the build quality is a bit suspect with cheap plastic. Also the sliding USB on the side might become loose over a period of time. These are the two concerns that I have since I always keep the flash drive in my purse and it has to withstand the stress of coins nd all
As of the weight its quite light at arnd 11 gm. A status Blue LED is there which blinks on activity. Overall I will say it looks quite good but the build quality could have been better. But you cant expect everything right
Additionally, the thumb drive comes with a lanyard for easy portability.
A Lanyard cable would have been very nice if it was bundled. Anyway one can buy a good qulaity one for arnd 25 bucks
Bundled Software
The JetFlash V10 comes with JetFlash elite software pack. The software includes a PC lock function, so your flash drive becomes the key to your computer, encryption and password security application, data backup function and more.
For more details on the JetFlash Elite here go here
JetFlash elite
Detection & Performance
The drive was detected fine in quite a few machines w/o any issues and the performance was quite similar. Most importantly it gives almost same speeds in front USBs as well with extenders.
The benchmarks results are below:
HD Tach RW 3.0.1
Atto
Sandra XI.SP2
700 MB Single File Copy(write)
Time Taken--- 72 sec
Speed --- 9.72 MB/s
700 MB Single File Copy(Read)
Time Taken --- 34 sec
Speed ---- 20.58 MB/s
Final Thoughts
Well Transcend flash drives are associated with slow speeds but the V10 series have never dissapointed me and here the V10 8GB continues the good tradition. In fact everything except the dreaded V30 series are quite good. TO summarize here are the pros and cons
Pros:
* Blazing flast ( I guess it beats the Flash voyager in write speeds)
* jet Flash Elite Software
* Excellent VFM.....can't think of anything better in market in terms of price per GB
* Looks good
Cons
* Iffy build quality
* The removable usb mechanism might get loose over a point of time...just an apprehension though
Introduction
What was once a tiny storage device to flaunt is now in the hands of almost every other PC user. Flash storage has changed the way we see and use portable storage. It is reasonably fast, very rugged (compared to hard disks), and is very small.On top of that prices are tumbling every month and even a 8GB drive like this is only 1.6k which was almost like 3k 2-3 months back
Specifications and Features
Size : 64mm x 21mm x 10mm
Data Retention : UP to 10 years
Weight : 11g
Package Contents
* 1 Transcend V10 8GB Flash Drive
* 1 neck Strap
* Jet Flash Elite Software & Win 98 Driver on mini CD
* Quick Start Guide
Looks
The JetFlash has a sliding USB connector. This convenient feature replaces a cap that can get lost or break. The connector slides into the body of the drive to keep it protected and clean.The ouside material though looks quite good...but the build quality is a bit suspect with cheap plastic. Also the sliding USB on the side might become loose over a period of time. These are the two concerns that I have since I always keep the flash drive in my purse and it has to withstand the stress of coins nd all
As of the weight its quite light at arnd 11 gm. A status Blue LED is there which blinks on activity. Overall I will say it looks quite good but the build quality could have been better. But you cant expect everything right
Additionally, the thumb drive comes with a lanyard for easy portability.
A Lanyard cable would have been very nice if it was bundled. Anyway one can buy a good qulaity one for arnd 25 bucks
Bundled Software
The JetFlash V10 comes with JetFlash elite software pack. The software includes a PC lock function, so your flash drive becomes the key to your computer, encryption and password security application, data backup function and more.
For more details on the JetFlash Elite here go here
JetFlash elite
Detection & Performance
The drive was detected fine in quite a few machines w/o any issues and the performance was quite similar. Most importantly it gives almost same speeds in front USBs as well with extenders.
The benchmarks results are below:
HD Tach RW 3.0.1
Atto
Sandra XI.SP2
700 MB Single File Copy(write)
Time Taken--- 72 sec
Speed --- 9.72 MB/s
700 MB Single File Copy(Read)
Time Taken --- 34 sec
Speed ---- 20.58 MB/s
Final Thoughts
Well Transcend flash drives are associated with slow speeds but the V10 series have never dissapointed me and here the V10 8GB continues the good tradition. In fact everything except the dreaded V30 series are quite good. TO summarize here are the pros and cons
Pros:
* Blazing flast ( I guess it beats the Flash voyager in write speeds)
* jet Flash Elite Software
* Excellent VFM.....can't think of anything better in market in terms of price per GB
* Looks good
Cons
* Iffy build quality
* The removable usb mechanism might get loose over a point of time...just an apprehension though
