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KingMax 8GB Super Stick =NEW Microsoft Vista Boost Certified= USB Drive. **Washer and Dryer SAFE! | 
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| Brand: Kingmax
Category: CE
List Price: $49.75
Buy New: $15.75
You Save: $34.00 (68%)
Rating:  14 reviews
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4 x 0.5
MPN: 008GU2W
UPC: 876397004286
EAN: 0876397004286
ASIN: B001AMI91E
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | NEW 50% Faster Transfer Speeds with Vista Boost | | • | Worlds tiniest USB Drive | | • | Washer and Dryer SAFE! | | • | Worldwide patented PIPTM packaging technology | | • | USB 2.0 compatible |
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Product Description
The world's lightest, thinnest and only water-resistant and heat-resistant USB flash drive is now 50% FASTER with Vista Boost Certified!. The Super Stick is convenient enough for consumers to carry anywhere, and its trendy design makes it a great mobile phone strap accessory, necklace or keychain. It can even be stored in a wallet. The Super Stick is so small that it measures and weights about the size of a paper clip. It works with USB 2.0, allowing for the high-speed transfer of documents and data in your day-to-day work. The Super Stick is made to last using a patented packaging technology that is stronger than plastic or aluminum casing. In fact there is no casing; it is built directly into the sealed substrate making it resistant to water, heat and shock, virtually indestructible. Plus no snap-on cap is needed. Hate those bulky flash drives that end up losing or forgetting. Finally an USB flash drive that you can hold onto with no hassle. Revolutionary size and an amazing price make the Super Stick the ultimate buy for a USB flash drive.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 STAY AWAY October 8, 2008
Benjamin Muth
I bought the kingmax 8gb super stick thinking it was the last flash drive i would ever need. It worked for one day. It will not be recognized on any of my machines, or my work, or school machines. It was a waste of 25 dollars. I dont suggest this product to anyone.
 KingMax SuperStick October 7, 2008
D. Sandoval (Los Angeles, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first shipment disappointed me because it failed to work within a week of arrival. I couldn't format the drive and the problem only worsened to the point where the drive wouldn't show up in my explorer. I exchanged it and have received the new one today.
It comes packaged with a rubber holder in which you insert the drive. It is a light pink and is shaped like the silhouette of a cartoon girl. Two white dots on the front represent buttons and KINGMAX is in white print on the back. Also packaged is a small double ended lanyard with a rubber spring in between. It seems girly to me and so I don't use it.
The SuperStick is small enough to fit in my wallet and I can transfer 120MB of data in roughly 50 seconds. That's about 2.4 megabytes per second. Windows first calculates a large ammount of time at the beginning of the transfer but becomes quickly smaller and more accurate as the transfer progresses.
Tested on a single core processor 1GB RAM, PC with Windows XP SP3.
Great product - surreal packaging - terrible lanyard September 25, 2008
Robert Hastings (Jamestown, CO USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Kingmax 8GB super stick is better than its predecessors, in that it has a hardened form factor. I can't vouch whether it is washer-dryer safe, but the casing does seem sturdier than other models. According to Vista, its memory write speed is 6-7 mbps - the packaging says only 3mbps write, so I'm happy that they understated the speed (or Vista's metrics are inaccurate - unthinkable!). However, the pink external case shaped like a rorsach test pig is just plain ... surreal. It's not integral to the device, and can be discarded (it's predecessors did not have an external case). I think that the marketing committee at Kingmax may have had one too many during happy hour at the local pub. Buy this product - you'll love it - and then lose it. The plastic spring-shaped lanyard easily breaks (thus I lost the drive a day after I wrote the first part of the review). Remove the springy lanyard, and use the the nylon part, and you'll be OK. When you edit a review, you can't change the star rating, otherwise I'd mod this down to a 1.
DOA within a month September 17, 2008
G. Heilman (Alaska)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Small as advertised. Can be confusing on which way to insert when being put in a USB drive (unlike most thumb drives, it will go into a drive either "right side up" or the opposite). Not a big deal if you use only one or two computers, but computer manufacturers do not install their drives in only one direction across the brands. The drive did come with a small rubber plastic case which would have been a great carry option if it wasn't pink...?
The primary reason I am writing this review is that I inserted the drive into a work computer today and "nada". Same thing here at home. Drive has stayed in my wallet, not run through a washer, etc. Obviously unsatisfactory for a thumb drive (even generics are noteworthy for their reliability). Perhaps, this is atypical for this manufacturer-or not-, but less than one month of light use rates the one star I am giving it.
I Approve September 6, 2008
W. Thrower (UT USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It was time to replace my 2 Gig thumb drive, and durability was a factor. This little device seemed promising (although as a friend pointed out, it's more of a thumbnail drive than a thumb drive), and it was priced very competitively. I'm glad I bought it.
I laughed when I read words like "stylish" and "sleek" in the marketing description (it's a tool!), but those words are surprisingly relevant. When I use it, it often becomes a topic of conversation, and I enjoy showing it to other geeks (who usually want to know where they can get one).
I've had no issues with the device's reliability or durability, but I haven't stress tested it.
Another reviewer mentioned a couple "negative" points that are worth considering:
1. It does go in horizontal USB slots upside-down from the way I initially guessed--the printing goes face-down. Since it doesn't have the usual USB housing, you can easily insert it incorrectly. Doing so causes no damage though--it's just a minor initial usability issue.
2. Its size and weight make it easy to forget or drop without noticing, so it's probably a good idea to attach it to something else you carry with you.
Those characteristics aren't necessarily problems, but it helps to be aware of them.
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