Centon USB 2.0 Pro (Grey), 4GB

I am a computer pro, I own maybe a dozen USB flash drives. I have had occasional problems with drives, but never had a piece of junk like the Centon. It accepted a large file, but I was unable to read it. I tried to format the thing - no luck. I contacted what Centon laughingly calls their support service and just ran into road blocks. I know how to care for USB flash memory, so I know it was not my fault. This company makes cheap junk, avoid them at all costs!

I have been buying flash drives since they first came out and as their capacity gets larger and larger, I keep buying the next larger capacity ones. So far, the only one that has failed is the Centon DataStick Pro (4 GB). I filled it up with data as a back-up for my hard drive and just went to get some of that data and it can not be read. I took it to a friend and his newer computer can not read it either. I tried on a brand new Windows 7 machine and it can not read it. It is the first drive of this type that I have seen fail and I have quite a few different sizes and brands.

So I NEEDED 4 gigs of space. Now heres the catch. -When you buy a 4 gig flash drive, apparently you arent buying a 4 gig flash drive. You are buying 3 gigs and change. Even though it is advertised as being a 4 gig drive. Makes NO sense to me!! So in my mind, I did not get what I thought I was paying for, and it was useless to me, and I had to buy another one, and this was just a waste of money. These products should be advertised correctly.

Purchased this flash drive at a military PX overseas since options are limited. I utilized this drive three times before it stopped working and my computer could not recognize it. What a waste of money. Avoid at all costs.

Ive had many flash drives, and whatever the brand they always did what was expected. Not this piece of junk. After only a couple of days working with it, it suddenly couldnt be read, and needed to be reformatted. Dont be suckered into the low price, youll only get junk.

I bought this because it was a great price for the amount of drive space. I loaded it with, among other things, financial files such as Quicken backup files and a spreadsheet of credit card payments. It worked fine for a few weeks. Then last week in the middle of reconciling my Quicken file I got an error message that the drive could not be read. It took several minutes to recover the info. Today it happened again with a spreadsheet. If you want to save a few bucks in the short term, buy one of these. But it looks like Ill be shopping for another flash drive.

Needed a few small capacity USB drives for use with Subaru firmware updates. Centon was listed as a recommended brand in the Subaru TSB and had outstanding reviews. Drives received very quickly, however half of them were not recognized as storage by anything in the shop. Had coworkers try on personal laptops and same deal. Emailed Centon support (csupport@cxxxx) for help, but have not heard back from them and its been over a week since initial contact. I gave up working with Centon and started a return with Amazon. I realize product defects can and do happen, but Centons customer support seems MIA. I cannot recommend these drives or Centon as a company. If you are storing critical or important data on these, please make backups.

More than I expected from the price. I prefer the cap to the pivot kind, keeps out the dust better. Completely satisfied.

Good price for the storage.

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