Super Talent Pico-C 8Gb Micro USB Stick Review

Storage/Other by jmke @ 2008-07-04

A 6 gram USB drive not much larger than a fingernail, with room for up to 8Gb of data. Super*Talent has designed a stylish device which claims up to 30Mb/s read speed. Let see what it is made of.

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Looks, Usage and Wear

Looks and Usage

Inside the package you’ll find a small metal chain to carry the stick around; funny thing is that the chain is almost bigger than the USB drive itself.

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To really illustrate the remarkably small size of this USB drive, we placed it next to a 4Gb Kingston DT HyperX.

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Plugged in to a system you can see the drive is smaller than your average USB connector!

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Wear

We hooked up the Pico-C to our keychain for a few weeks to see how it would take the daily abuse of the other metal devices on the keychain. It will definitely not cause any extra weight or a size issue, that’s for sure!

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The metal surface of the Pico drive got scratched pretty, the USB connector remained functional though, which is the important part. We did encounter an issue with the metal chain, which is not as strong as expected; we had the chain snap twice when it got caught up somewhere and we tried to pull it loose. In the looks departement a black string might not score as high, but for weight/strength we definitely advise it.

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Can this small drive stand up to the big ones performance wise? ->
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