Sandisk 4gb Cruzer Contour U3 Usb Flash Drive Review

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SanDisk 4GB Cruzer Contour U3 USB Flash Drive Review

by Andrew Brandt, PC World

The SanDisk Cruzer Contour U3 flash drive can take a licking and still maintain your data, but it lacks high-end encryption.

In our recent look at eight encrypted portable drives, we considered two USB flash drives, including SanDisk's Cruzer Contour.

The Cruzer Contour ($100 for 16GB) isn't so much a security tool as it is a speedy flash-memory thumb drive with a nifty mechanism to retract the USB connector: The piece recesses inside a sliding cover that you can manipulate with just your thumb. Inside, it's a high-performance U3 drive with all the benefits: the ability to run programs from the drive itself, a feature that stores your documents on the drive automatically, and the U3 Launchpad, a clone of the Start menu for the drive's installed applications.

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User Reviews for SanDisk 4GB Cruzer Contour U3 USB Flash Drive

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: fast. solidly built. slider mechanism protects the end without a separate end cap that can get lost. really nice keychain pouch lets me keep this thing handy all the time.

Weaknesses: i want another one.

Overall Evaluation: get rid of the u3 software because it just slows you down. what's the point in having a fast drive if you have to wait 30 seconds for the u3 interface to load?