Lexar adds capacity meter plus to JumpDrive Secure II
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 14th 2007 11:16AM
posted May 14th 2007 11:16AM
posted May 14th 2007 11:16AM
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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!
Really neat jumpdrive. I like the capacity meter. That makes it convenient. I have a 4GB thumbdrive that has a carabiner that I really like too. You can clip it to anything
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This is pretty damn cool.
Hopefully it gets adopted by every other manufacturer.
That's actually pretty neat. I wish some of my thumb drives had that.
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.
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!
Yeah and I remember when MS Office was on 22 3.5 inch diskettes.
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.
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).
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.
Next, you'll see flash drives with 10 inch displays and a keyboard. Oh wait, that's called a UMPC!
I want to know why the meter is already at 60%, when I just bought it. I read the directions and found no answer.