Sony's MicroVault Click Excellence drives are Bill and Ted approved

Sony's MicroVault Click and Click Excellence range of USB drives were just announced in Europe. "Click," as in a clicking, retractable design with up to 16GB of flash capacity. "Excellence," as in an un-heinous 32MBps read and 11MBps write speed with a comforting, blinky-LED light for visual data flow. Unfortunately, the most excellent model is limited to a non-triumphant 8GB max capacity. Whoa, dudes.

[Via Engadget Spanish]

[Jaque-o @ May 22nd 2008 8:15AM]

16 GB's and pink...

Makes you wonder..




Will... it play Crysis? O_o

[Esat Dedezade @ May 22nd 2008 8:26AM]

facepalm.jpg

[Ameen @ May 22nd 2008 8:45AM]

Is Crysis the new Doom?.. :P

[Kurian @ May 22nd 2008 8:52AM]

Yes its pink and 16 units long.

[rock99rock @ May 22nd 2008 9:34AM]

Haha. Units.

[HydePark @ May 22nd 2008 8:20AM]

I'll take one, please .

[Ryan Trevisol @ May 22nd 2008 8:21AM]

I used a co-worker's 2GB Sony Click drive. It was bodacious.

[j_g_puff @ May 22nd 2008 9:52AM]

Actually, they're non-non-non-non-non-heinous.

[Nate @ May 22nd 2008 10:12AM]

Rufus and Socrates would love these.

[Ed @ May 22nd 2008 4:36PM]

I believe you mean So Crates.

[Scot @ May 22nd 2008 8:25AM]

These are so fantast.....oh look ice cream! =D

[Stiv @ May 22nd 2008 8:27AM]

This is most non non non heinous! Thanks Billy the Kid.

[stardash @ May 22nd 2008 9:12AM]

I got a full-on robot chubby.

[nDee @ May 22nd 2008 11:48AM]

It's sony, japanese Apple, they can't be that bad, can they?

[Ray @ May 22nd 2008 1:25PM]

That's Mr. The Kid to you.

[Flashpoint @ May 22nd 2008 8:28AM]

Every single day, Engadget shows me more fantast ways to store my porno collection.

I think 8 of these just might be enough.

[Danny@Sweden @ May 22nd 2008 9:58AM]

my every porno is about 1.3 GB, 8 seems not enough.. :P

[StreetStealth @ May 22nd 2008 12:44PM]

How do you even have time to read Engadget?

How does your keyboard even still work?

[Brett @ May 22nd 2008 8:31AM]

They are SOOOOO flashy, the flashiest flash drives that have even been driven....... Flashy.... Flash Drive....

Actually the 8Gb reminds me of Sony HDV tapes.

[Rob @ May 22nd 2008 8:32AM]

LMFAO. Man, you guys are killing me with Bill and Ted. (guitar riff)

[AlekZander @ May 22nd 2008 8:33AM]

Most bodacious!

[Michael @ May 22nd 2008 8:33AM]

Everything is different, but the same... things are more moderner than before... bigger, and yet smaller... it's computers...

[Stiv @ May 22nd 2008 9:05AM]

@Michael

Your comment wins!

[MikeyJ @ May 22nd 2008 8:45AM]

San Dimas High School Football rules!!

[Rufus White @ May 22nd 2008 8:45AM]

Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. And I'm telling you, everything is great. The air is clean. The water is clean. Even the dirt... is clean. Bowling averages are way up. Mini-golf scores are way down. And we have more waterslides than any other planet we communicate with. I'm telling you, it's great. But it almost wasn't. You see, 700 years ago the Two Great Ones ran into a few problems. So now I must travel back in time to help them out. If I should fail to keep these two on the correct path, the basis of our society will be in danger. Don't worry. It'll make sense. I'm a professional.

[G. I. @ May 22nd 2008 8:46AM]

Do they come with rootkit?

[BobTurbo @ May 22nd 2008 9:05AM]

Bill & Ted reference or GTFO.

:)

[oliver hart @ May 22nd 2008 9:20AM]

approved by so crates himself

[blank @ May 22nd 2008 9:34AM]

STATION!!!

[John P @ May 22nd 2008 9:36AM]

Bill's step mom is really going to love the 16gb one. And she's smokin' hot!

[Bill S Preston, Esq @ May 22nd 2008 12:43PM]

SHUT UP, TED!

[richrockstar @ May 22nd 2008 9:38AM]

root kit FTW!

[Will @ May 22nd 2008 9:39AM]

Yes, these should be large enough to store my collection of Wyld Stallyns mp3s....

[tekdroid @ May 22nd 2008 10:06AM]

A small SDHC-accepting reader would be far better than yet another embedded flash stick like this, IMO. Not only is miniSD and microSD compatible with SD adaptors (and nearly always come with them), but they are extremely popular and dirt cheap. Truly dirt cheap.

Nifty retractable design tho.

Longevity
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Also, given that Flash has a finite write life, the USB stick with embedded Flash as a whole is another casualty reaching landfill, rather than just the flash itself, which I'm not too keen on.

[Ed @ May 22nd 2008 4:41PM]

See: http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/22/sonys-microvault-click-excellence-drives-are-bill-and-ted-approv/comments/12261512/

[tekdroid @ May 23rd 2008 8:01AM]

Ed, I'd have to see the movie to answer with a reference :P

[med1320 @ May 22nd 2008 10:17AM]

Midevil babes from Iowa

[AlekZander @ May 22nd 2008 11:23AM]

Your spelling is most heinous.

[h27790.temp @ Jun 3rd 2008 1:59PM]

...they're from Medevil England.

Huh?

Uh, Medevil England, Iowa.

Oh.

[The Dude @ May 22nd 2008 11:38AM]

These will be most triumphant in carrying around my Wyld Stallyns discography.


Keanu Reeves at his finest. Amirite?

[Sean O @ May 22nd 2008 1:42PM]

"Take the to the Iron Maiden"

"Iron Maiden! Excellent!!!"

[nathan.wong @ May 22nd 2008 2:24PM]

I still love that movie.

[webon @ May 23rd 2008 2:13AM]

yeah but what number are you thinking of?

[jordan @ Jun 12th 2008 1:05AM]

people, stay on topic, i just got one today, and i tried to copy the software onto another thumb drive, but it deleted all the files on it, otherwise, this is an awesome product, but might take a little time getting used to the experimental software