I’ve used my fair share of micro flash drives in my life, but none have been as difficult as this one. Here’s a short list of what I don’t like about it, I’ll go into further detail down the page. 1.) It feels very cheap and junky. | 2.) The U3 software on there is horrendous. | 3.) Slow & Software is intrusive.

I couldn’t really pass this deal up when I saw it at Walmart, on sale for $14. 4 GB is quite a bit for such a small device. Yeah I know they now make 32GB micro flash drives, but it’s still a good chunk of space. With that being said I purchased it and brought it home hoping to put some backup files from my computer on it.

Right away when I plugged it into the USB slot I noticed it was not stable at all. It disconnected itself in the middle of a transfer more then once and I also noticed that it auto-runs multiple programs that are pre-installed on the device. Very annoying. I have never used a USB flash drive that has software that’s so annoying and intrusive. I find it running in the background of my PC even though I never started the software.

Conclusion: It’s made from very cheap plastic that makes it feel as if you could break it pretty easily. The software is by far the most annoying problem of this device. Plus it’s slow and unstable in transferring. So all around I’ve found it to be a piece of crap. It kinda surprises me because I used to think Sandisk made fairly good products.

As you may have guessed, I returned the device a week after I bought it. I have heard, though, that you are able to uninstall the software on the micro flash drive. I never looked into this because I was also unhappy with the other facets of this product and will wait to purchase a massive 32GB in the future.

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