But no one *ever* mentions whether the Kingston drives have flashing LED to indicate copy activity, please! Could someone please post here whether or not the Kingston has an LED indicator light to let one know that data is being copied?
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I don't know why a few people say it has no LED. I just purchased this same model (4gb Data Traveler 100) from another store and it DOES have an LED light that blinks when their is activity. Maybe their stick is defective and their light is burned out or something, but there definitely is one. Its a green light behind the logo.
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It will only see files on the root directory. It does not have an LED display. If it did, you would be able to select different sectors on you USB.I have not been able to get this unit to work. Also, you must be able to format your USB into sectors of 1.4mg. It's been awhile, I don't remember if it came with software to do that. One more thing. You have to find 2Gb or smaller USB sticks. Good Luck, but I would not recommend.
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It flashes when read / write. Actually, the light is not a dot on the USB drive. It is under the sliding bar but u can see the blue light flashing when first plugged in and when read / write. It is quite obvious.
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There are leds for each drive, they flash when the drive is accessed. I don't know if the drives are spinning, but I do know that if I haven't accessed a drive in a while, there is a slight delay. Almost like they are not spinning. The unit shuts down when I power down my computer, but need to push button to start. Will not activate at boot. Hope this helps.
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I put in a Kingston 4gb and it works well. Much faster than 1gb and no freezing issues when running more than one programme etc. it only reads 3gb but it's not a problem at all.
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It has one led light. I'm not sure about the floppy image thing. Here is the deal. To get this thing to work properly, you have to use the formatting program that comes with the drives. That will make the flash drive work properly as the thing needs to emulate the FAT32 format.
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I plugged mine in and did get a light, but the drive was never recognized by my computer. I suspect the problem is the disk drive.
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Yes, there is a light. It is behind the colored area of the flash drive where you place your thumb to slide out the USB connector. The light is hard to see if you are by a bright light but shading the colored area with your hand will allow you to see the light. Also the light comes on as soon as you plug in the flash drive and flashes when data is being copied to it.
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Mine does not seem to disk over write once full. I recently had to erase all to free space as it appeared to have stopped recording. Since then Ive been careful to erase once in a while and haven't let it go to full again so I dont know if it was an isolated incident or if not over writing is the rule. For the rest, it works very well.
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My answer is both yes and no. I purchased two identical units of this model at separate times. One has been working ok (good) other is totally unreliable (bad), i.e., either needs to repeat a process(insert-remove) many times until finally show up or the icon fails to show up. No icon means no file transfer possible. I have five (16GB) flash drives in total made by three different manufacturers and find one made by Kingston to be most reliable so far.
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The rear bay and/or "highest-numbered bay" (#2 on the 2-bay unit, and #4 on the 4-bay unit) is normally the SOURCE (the one you copy "from"). The lower-numbered bays are usually the TARGET (Destination) drive bays. Read the writing on the devices, it is small, but it does list which is which. Double-check before using, because models change from time to time! Copy speed is acceptable, as far as I can tell. 500 GB drive, mostly-full, copied in less than 4 hours - I cannot give specifics, because it was finished when I came back 4 hours later.
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Good question, sad to say, the drive starts from the beginning once you turn it off, then it restarts from the first song, so whenever I do that I am constantly having to hit the "next" button over and over to get to where I last was....Same with using a SATA card. Other than that little glitch I really like the unit as a whole. For the price? I think it's ok.Hope this answers you coherently.
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Good idea checking it locally. Looks like the smaller drives get the added perks (larger selection of colors and, now, cooler pattern of lights). I liked the price too (and the free docking station) so I guess I will keep mine. Thanks all.
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Sorry; I would suspect that if it is possible after initial configuration, it would be considered proprietary. Contact Kingston.
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p/n: 9tn158-301fw version: cc34if Your looking to get one beware I bought 2 of these and both died within a year. both where used as extended storage drives. need a logic board lol?
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The unit has a red LED for power and a blue LED for activity. The red is always on, the blue one does go off if there is no disk activity for a period of time. ( Sorry, I didn't measure the time) Also, I have an HHD, and if you check the unit up the disk is not spinning.So the short answer is : I believe it does, but the unit is always powered up unless turned off ( Rocker switch on the back of the unit) But the disk does spin down until it is used once again.
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I'm planning on doing the same thing but only have a week or two experience with the enclosure so far. The first one failed and was quickly replaced without much fuss. So far no troubles with the new enclosure though I have not started moving files to the drive. If you are leaving it on for 24 hours you may find the blue LED a waste of energy and annoying in a darkened room. I think it would be a simple matter to unplug the LED. There's no reason it should affect the use of the drive/enclosure.