2009-06-23T19:57:37Z
The cap is one of the nicest features. For wimpy girls with weak fingers, it's off and on very easily. Tough guys with thick fingers can add a little square of duct tape between the cap shell and separate liner so that they'll need to focus and concentrate to get the cap off. OCZ beats the competition.

I have 2GB and 4GB versions of this same drive and I echo your sentiments exactly -- great performance, durable construction, lifetime warranty, and easily misplaced cap! It's also become my everything/everywhere/everyday drive.

I would like to add the just-right size. Small enough to slip into any pocket, bag, knapsack, or purse, yet large enough to not disappear into the ether.

One minor nitpicks about the review though: a stopwatch isn't the most scientific method of measuring throughput (due to caching, multitasking, human response, etc). You should check out HDTune and/or Flash Memory Toolkit for more consistent benchmarking.

Otherwise great review! Enjoyable read.

Thanks for the tip with Flash Memory Toolkit, I'll look into it. I actually got much less consistent results with HDTune as well as a few other utilities before just going with a stopwatch. The tests are done multiple times, with an average of the lot and aberrant results pitched.

I gotta say, you have no idea how mind-numbing testing transfer speeds is with a stopwatch until you do it for a few hours.