Centon USB 2.0 Pro (Grey), 4GB

This stick is a great value for the money.

Outstanding. I work with several brands of laptops at work and this one works great with all brands.

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.

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.

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 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.

Lots of storage for a good price

This USB is perfect for me. Its nice and small and works like a charm. Best of all, I didnt spend an arm and leg on it!

Ive had one of these 4 gig Centons for a few years now, and Im honestly confused by the wildly different experience between me and apparently everyone else thats used one. Ive never had problems putting files on or getting them off. Ive used it in numerous devices without trouble. I dont think its ever lost a file. More than that, the things more durable than a Swiss-engineered watch. Mines been dropped, stepped on, even went through a bout in the washing machine once. That one, I thought it was dead for sure. But I blew some air through it, let it dry, plugged it in, and it worked just as well as ever. I even backed up the files off of it just to make sure (Id taken to keeping certain must have files on it all the time), expecting it to die any minute. That was early last summer, and its worked as well as ever. Today I thought it had finally bit the big one. I was trying to rearrange my floor mat and knocked over my computer chair. The back struck the datastick where it was sticking out of the front of the computer and I thought it had been bent in two on first glance. Actually, all that had happened was the glue inside holding the board and plug in had come loose, making the case slide off it. It never even lost connection with my computer, let alone lost function. A little glue around the edge of where the plug fits into the case, and despite a now noticeable but subtle curve to its structure, its still good to go. I am now rather worried that Ive pushed it to the limits of its durability, so I came to look up Centon memory sticks. I was shocked at how some of them had one-star ratings, including this one with a bunch of them. Either I have a slightly different model number that was made as durable as everyone elses was made crap, or... well, I dunno or what else, its weird. Hell, Im almost afraid to use anything else for fear one day it will fall out of my pocket, hit a carpeted floor, and become useless, like one of the other memory sticks I used to use.

Good price for the storage.