SanDisk Cruzer 64 GB USB Flash Drive- piece of crap
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How in the name if Heaven did this thing get over a thousand reviewes ????.

1.11 minutes to write just 2GB of data using an INTEL i5 machine with 8GB of ram , say what ??????????.

2. If you guys could see the kid of packaging that this thing came in trust me those over a 1000 reviews would carry very little weight .

3. just like point number 1 above if it takes that long to write that small amount of data imagine the joy I'll have writing all the gigabytes I have stored...oh  joy.

DO  NOT  BUY  THIS  PIECE OF  GARBAGE.
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The last two Seagate Plus Slim 1 TB models I bought failed within a month.  Both started making the "clicking sound of death" after backing up files and nearly becoming full.  I opened the last one, just to see what was inside of it, only to be shocked how cheap a piece of crap these things really are.  I have opened a Western Digital drive like this a couple of years ago and was able to reset the stylus.  Forget about it on this thing.  The interior contents are obviously flimsy and of inferior quality.  The worst thing is, I lost my backups...............twice now!

I am done with Seagate Drives.  Buy from Western Digital instead and be warned that you will lose your backup data if you continue to use this lousy piece of equipment
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Save your money. This drive is trash from a failing company. Buy from Sandisk or Samsung. This was my cars usb drive for music until it starting showing no device. (pioneer headunit) I had to unplug and plug it back in. Might not seen like a issue but when it does it 5 times in a 40 min commute it is annoying asf.
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I can't believe this! Just woke up one morning and Oh what is this?? "SD card is blank or has unsupported filesystem" oh really!? What can I do? *tap* "Format SD card? All data on your card will be lost" REALLY? ALL 600 damn photos and memories from the past year will be gone? Thanks SanDisk for being a piece of crap and making a product that lasts less than a year. Why don't you just make a product that at least gives warning like "Hey guess what buddy? Yeah im about to just die, so you might want to remove everything from me because I'm pretty sure I have TONS of stuff you really want and like. Welcome!"

Crappy this has happened. I won't be buying a SanDisk ever again.
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My 8Gb cruzer slide just failed oompletely  -- no computer will even recognize that it has been 'plugged in'.  I've apparently lost over 6 Gb of data  --- there seems to be no support available from the manufacturer or the salesagents  --- BEWARE
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UPDATE (01/18/2006):  My player has now died, completely.  I'd change the rating on this player to zero stars if I could.  Sandisk themselves seem to know they've got a lemon, as they have discontinued this product, and have offered to replace mine with one of the new Sansa 1Gb players.  (The replacement hasn't shown up yet, and I've been waiting for 2 weeks; when I actually get it, I'll say nice things about their customer service.)
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Our university bookstore was offering these for free with the purchase of a Cruzer drive, so I couldn't resist buying one.  Almost immediately wish I had resisted, since I ran into the same problems everyone else is reporting here:  constant lockups that require you to remove the battery by opening the incredibly flimsy door, seemingly uncontrollable song order, lousy battery life.

Now that I've figured a few things out (no thanks to anything published by Sandisk), I've found I kind of like the thing.  The interface is very simple, sound quality is excellent, and the ability to swap out the drive is very handy.

So some useful tips for others out there:

(1) Regarding file order.  The songs are played in the order that they occur in the FAT record of the disk.  If you don't really know how file systems work, just use this rule of thumb:  they're played in the order you copy them to the drive.  However, be sure to empty/recycle any files you've put in the trash first.  Even this doesn't give an ironclad guarantee of the copy-ordering rule, but it'll get you there most of the time.

(2) Regarding the lock-ups.  This device cannot play files at bit rates faster than 128 kbps.  I don't care what documentation you find to the contrary.  I have reproduced this consistently.  It plays my 128 kbps files just fine, and chokes on every 192 kbps file I've tried.  I've used only MP3 format, since I come from the Mac world.

(3) As other people have noticed, this thing is *very* sensitive to low battery power, and it chews through these things like candy.  I don't think I've been able to use a battery longer than 4 hours.  I've measured several of the batteries it claimed were depleted, and they were all at over 1.3V.  One consequence of this is that the player cannot use rechargeable batteries.

Is it worth the price?  Well, for the price I got it ($70 for the 1gb drive), yes.  Or if you've already got a Cruzer drive (I'm pretty sure it won't take anything else), then it's definitely worth the extra $50 for the player.

But if you're considering diving in to the whole package, skip it.  For the price, there are much better, more robust players out there (including the wonderful standalone flash players from Sandisk).
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Got the 256GB one 2 months ago. At like $42 2 times that now! Was using it to store WordPress on a Ubuntu server.

When I went to reboot it could not mount this! I did a "fsch -y /dev/sdh1" on it and after a long time came back with just one folder in it. "lost+found" but all looks like just junk files there.

Got a lot of other flash drives mounted on this and never got it so it can't mount them and they are older.
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I have owned dozens of flash drives over the years, starting with my first drive, which was 64mb and cost nearly a hundred bucks (to give you an idea of how long ago that was), to some very recent and good drives from SanDisk, Corsair and others.

I have also owned PNY flash drives in the past, which were OK.

I have had flash drives start to go flaky, but typically only after years of service. Even the cheapo bottom end flash drives that I regularly use at work for temporary file transfers are reliable, if slow.

But THIS PNY drive is an utter piece of junk. It worked a sum total of ONE time before it went flaky. I was barely able to get it to be recognized on a PC the second time (I had to try three PCs; it was only recognized on one). By the third time I tried to use it: Dead. It's recognized as a PNY flash device, but with no identifiable memory attached.

I should have trusted the other very negative reviews I read.

Trust me: I have a ton of experience with flash drives. This one is utter junk. DO NOT BUY IT.

I know it's super cheap for the storage and performance it promises. But don't do it. Move. Away. From. The. Computer. Terminal. Now.

SanDisk has a 128Gb USB drive for about $5 more on sale. Go with that.
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It's nice to buy a flash drive for little money and get big use out of it. Most flash drives don't last long, but the Cruzer works extremely well and with 32 gigs, you can load quite a bit of information on it. Well worth it's weight in gold.
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Purchased this PNY Turbo 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive - P-FD128TBOP-GE on Black Friday 2015. Because I use flash drives all the time for transfers, backups etc., I usually have 20 or more drives of all sizes, I didn't take it out of the package right away. I almost exclusively use PNY drives and wasn't worried about the quality of this one. Big, big mistake. I opened the flash drive a couple of weeks ago, and immediately had problems. File transfers would abort whether I was using USB 2 or 3 ports. Tried it on my main desktop and 2 laptops. Reformatted from exFat to NTFS back and forth and tried other things. Files would not completely transfer and the ones that did were corrupt. Drive un-mounts for no reason and can no longer be found on any computers that I have tried it on. Running Windows 8.1 Pro on desktop and a Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 laptops. Makes no difference what slot I use on any of these computers. Got this to back up my Wife's Pictures and Camera movies. Tested the drive and got 97.9% bad blocks. Having had good luck with PNY for years, thought well 1 bad one in years is not so bad.

Since it was past the 30 days (a mistake I will not make again), I had to get an RMA directly from PNY. I will say this for the RMA process; It was relatively quick and professional. They did not give me a hard time and replaced this drive with a brand new one. My only problem is that even for this brand new Flash drive, I had to pay for shipping, tracking and insurance which raised the price of this drive now by 33%. A few more dollars instead of losing the original investment seemed OK at the time. RMAed the drive and just got the new one back. SAME PROBLEMS! This drive is even worse! It mounts sometimes and un-mounts for no reason - the same problem other users have had. After trying to use this drive and having problems, I tried all the reformatting options, tranfers and then I ran the tests on it. This flash drive has 99.2% bad blocks. Is there no quality control on these drives?

At this point I will not pay another dime to replace this drive yet again. I already have paid 133% of what most pay for this drive and will not compound it by throwing more good money after bad. It will be destroyed and then go in the trash. I use flash drives every single day many times as a CompTech.  I am currently looking for another brand as this has soured me on PNY. Don't know if it's a quality control issue or what but I feel I can no longer count on them. Hopefully it's just an issue with this one line of drives but with what I need these drives for I absolutely have to be able to count on them and I cannot.
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Basically, every single time I reboot, the system says my external drive is corrupt and needs to be "reformatted before use!!!!!"
OMG!  So, I have to unplug it, replug it into my laptop -> where it's INSTANTLY recognized and useable. Then unmount it, and replug it back into the ANKER  P.O.S.  Other items only mount or show usable about 20-50% of the time.
I'M TRYING TO FIND A REPLACEMENT NOW. - DO NOT BUY!
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The device failed. Under 3-year warranty, Lexar said they would not replace it, but offer an S75 as an alternative. The S75 is not low profile, so it is useless for keeping permanently in the laptop USB drive. So when I rejected that, they offered two 64GB S45 drives... umm, if I had wanted half the storage Lexar, I would have bought that in the first place. The problem with USB drives is that they get lost. One in the laptop does not get lost, one carried in my pocket does. Bottom line... Lexar warranty service is worthless. Of course, you only learn this when something goes wrong. I have no idea how good or bad my other vendor products are in terms of warranty support because they don't fail... unlike the S45 which did.
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I bought 2 of these 16 GB Micro SDHC cards to use with my car stereo's USB slot, imagine 16 GB of MP3's in a memory card the size of a fingernail. Also was nice because my Kingston USB adapter is not much bigger than the USB plug itself so it doesn't stick out much at all.

So I got them and was going away for the weekend and I spent about 3 hours straight loading one with music. When I started on my trip, I found that the stereo wouldn't read the card! Checked on my netbook and much of the files and folders were corrupted. After I deleted all of the corrupted items, the few albums left would play. Same thing with the other card. Tried reformatting the cards and various other things, the data just always became corrupt.

Then I checked with SanDisk, they confirmed that the memory is defective and said I had to go through Amazon to return since it's bulk packaging. Amazon was great, just printed a label, wrapped it up and dropped it off at UPS for a prompt refund.

I have a SanDisk Cruzer flash drive I use and it works flawlessly. It appears that some of these high capacity cards are defective. Instead, I ordered a 500 GB USB Powered Hard Disk Drive from Amazon/JR , it was only a few dollars more than the 2 cards and I can put my entire collection on that, in my vehicle and free up my iPod.

My 1 star is just the actual product for being defective. I had no other problems than that. This is my first experience doing a return with Amazon and it was great. Also SanDisk responded quickly and was helpful.
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Immediately upon usage, the drive is frequently fails to mount on computers.  It's difficult for me to understand how a flash drive could perform so poorly.
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It comes with a preloaded "launcher" whose purpose seems to be merely to get you to download certain programs.  You can't even format the thing to get rid of it, and telling it NOT to autorun results in... it autorunning.  It even pops up an annoying "you didn't eject this device properly last time" box when you reinsert the drive.

Luckily, sandisk offers a removal tool.  (Search sandisk's site for cruzer launcher removal.) Of course, last time I checked, the only things most people use "removal tools" for are viruses.

After using the removal tool, it functions like a normal, healthy USB flash drive.
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Tried a 64 GB drive on two Windows & computers.  One it actually said installed.  However, in both cases under the USB port gave an error - "Code 10" and didn't work.

I've plugged in lots of different size flash drives from lots of different manufacturers and never got this message.

Sent it back. Waiting for another.

I hope it was a isolated event, but others seem to be having problems with Centon drives too, of varying sizes.

The 64 GB doesn't seem to be good.

Update - 5/29/2012

Received replacement 64 GB drive.  It works!!

It is very slow for reads and writes compared to a 64 GB Sandisk flash drive (which is slow itself).

Big problem for me is that it comes formatted for NTFS, not FAT 32 and I can't reformat it to FAT 32,

You can format it to exFAT but it can't be read by my PS-3 in either NTFS or exFAT format.

For larger drives to be read by a PS-3 it has to be in FAT32 format.

I have Windows 7 and tried a free FAT32 formatter I have used before for hard drives,  Doesn't work on the Centon Flash Drive, and I need another program.

Centon is no help.

Anyone know of a FAT32 formatter that will work?

Update - 5/30/2012

Found a free FAT32 formatter that works with the Centon 64 GB Flash Drive.

Get it at the Verbatim.com website.  Do a key word search for FAT 32 on the Verbatim.com website and it will direct you to a page that has the free FAT32 software for downloading.

It works on other drives besides Verbatim drives. (I had posted the link below, but it was deleted)

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Now that I can use it with FAT 32 I have to up the stars to at least a three - and I'm going to give it a four because of the low price.  It's slim design is plus compared to Sandisk's wider design, you should have no problems with close USB ports. Can't ask for much more other than speed. It's really the slow speed and removable cap design that holds the rating down from a five. Otherwise, it's a good deal for the money. Although I expect other flash drives to drop in price too very soon.

Now if is only reliable. Time will tell.  I'll post again if it fails.
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This is the worst USB drive I have ever had, used only twice, and it's already quit working. The good news is that I did not have much stuff saved to it, but what a dais appointment!!!! I will try to either get a refund or replacement! Will update once have response!