Lexar adds capacity meter plus to JumpDrive Secure II

Lexar just added another USB flash drive with an E-Ink capacity meter to their lineup: the JumpDrive Secure II Plus. In fact, that meter is the only thing differentiating this product from their JumpDrive Secure II with 256-bit AES encryption. Well, that and a higher price tag. The new drives are in stores now in capacities up to 4GB with an 8GB version "coming soon." We tracked a 2GB model down online for $50, we're sure you can do the same.

[TWLreal @ May 14th 2007 11:28AM]

This is pretty damn cool.

Hopefully it gets adopted by every other manufacturer.

[Anthony @ May 14th 2007 11:37AM]

That's actually pretty neat. I wish some of my thumb drives had that.

[fitinferno @ May 14th 2007 11:39AM]

This would be great for where I work. We have so many USB keys always being passed around and you have to go through quite a few sometimes to find one that can fit some stuff on it as they all look the same.

[Chuckles McGee @ May 14th 2007 11:51AM]

By golly, back in my day, we had 32 MB USB drives. USB 1.1 drives mind you, as big as your pen- and we liked it that way, liked it just fine! 20 floppies at your fingertips, whoo whee! Fancy smansy e-ink, humbug!

[John @ May 14th 2007 12:18PM]

Yeah and I remember when MS Office was on 22 3.5 inch diskettes.

[scottiemac @ May 14th 2007 1:29PM]

I wonder how far away the day is where there will be a mini-display on the USB drive (not unlike the display on some mini-MP3 players) that will allow you to move forward and backward, find the file you want, and plug straight to a printer to print or plug into a monitor to view (JPEG or movie files). No doubt it is already in the works.

[R. Cabell @ May 14th 2007 1:43PM]

I wonder if the 'Capacity Meter' requires the drive to be formatted FAT32...

I sometimes format my thumb drives as HFS+ (for the Mac) or Ext3 (for Linux).

[patsy @ May 14th 2007 3:11PM]

How about making the display just a tad bigger so it can display the first 8 or so root level entries plus total size, it would make identifying the right drive a heck of a lot easier.

[adelossa @ May 14th 2007 4:39PM]

Next, you'll see flash drives with 10 inch displays and a keyboard. Oh wait, that's called a UMPC!

[Steve @ Sep 19th 2007 9:01PM]

I want to know why the meter is already at 60%, when I just bought it. I read the directions and found no answer.

[A D @ Feb 29th 2008 12:40AM]

This is a great flash drive. My 4GB drive was lost and after I found it a couple months later, the display was still showing the capacity as bright as if it were plugged in the comp. Must be a good battery!