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Super Talent 32GB Pico Flash Drive  (Source: Super Talent)
Tiny drive is water resistant and offers encryption

Flash drives have grown significantly in capacity over the years. When they first hit the market, their storage size was measured in small megabyte quantities. Today we have flash drives that cram tens of gigabytes or more into the same space.

Super Talent has unveiled a new compact flash drive today hailed as the world's smallest 32GB flash drive. The drive is called the 32GB Pico drive and it measures in at 31 x 12 x 3 mm and weighs less than a nickel.

In addition to being small, the drive is very robust as well with a water resistant design. Despite the tiny dimensions, the drives are also high performance with up to 200x read speeds or 30MB/sec. The drive is offered with nickel plating or 24K gold plating. The 32GB drive can also be has in versions that offer AES 256-bit hardware encryption as well. The 32GB drive without hardware encryption in any color retails for $85. The version of the drive with added hardware encryption sells for $99.

Super Talent's Joe James said, "Our customers have an insatiable need for higher capacity flash drives, but they don't want a big and bulky drive."

Super Talent offers a wide range of flash drives and SSDs for consumers.

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Mass effect ...
By HVAC on 7/29/2009 1:56:12 PM , Rating: 4
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...less than an Nickle


But does it also weigh less than a Nickel?




RE: Mass effect ...
By Flail on 7/29/2009 9:22:48 PM , Rating: 3
Probably not, but I bet it weighs less than a Pickle.


RE: Mass effect ...
By therealnickdanger on 7/30/2009 8:13:32 AM , Rating: 2
Oh stop being so fickle.


RE: Mass effect ...
By FaceMaster on 8/3/2009 11:38:51 AM , Rating: 2
So small I lost it down my Dickle.


RE: Mass effect ...
By Boze on 7/30/2009 11:19:41 AM , Rating: 2
I knew someone would try to point out that Shaun had misspelled "nickle", but the truth of the matter is that either spelling is correct, according to Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

I too was a bit confused when I saw it, but I reserved judgement on Shaun until I could look it up, and as it turns out, he spelled it "nickle" only because he's a time-travelling tech writer who was sucked out of 1899 and into our current decade.


RE: Mass effect ...
By HVAC on 7/30/2009 12:41:05 PM , Rating: 2
You will note that I did not say he was incorrect in his spelling. Perhaps I was too clever for my own good.

Perhaps this post is too egotisti ..... nah!


Funny how no mention of WRITE speed!
By Mojoed on 7/30/2009 1:47:03 AM , Rating: 3
Man, who cares about "200x" speed when it refers to read speed. Nearly all flash drives fall into this range. The real question is, what is the WRITE speed? It's funny how this information is not available even on Super Talents OWN DATA SHEET - http://www.supertalent.com/products/stt_usb_detail...

This glaring omission obviously means molasses-like write speeds. I find it hard to believe this information was accidentally omitted.




RE: Funny how no mention of WRITE speed!
By The0ne on 7/30/2009 2:20:44 PM , Rating: 2
I have the 8gig version and it's pretty good. Write speeds are normal around the 150X range. The little sucker is robust. I've had it in the washer, dryer and even the jacuzzi and it's still kicking strong :) The only problem is it's size. You can easily lose it. Really easy.


By mindless1 on 7/30/2009 11:30:06 PM , Rating: 2
Ironically I find my Pico to be the only flash drive I'm not very likely to lose, because it's small size makes it reasonable to keep on my keychain.


By mindless1 on 7/30/2009 11:37:47 PM , Rating: 2
Traditionally the Pico series has been priced very little more than the low-end products, why would it be fair to knock them for having similar performance to other contemporary products and like most others, not mention the write speed?

Even when some mention write speed they're doing so in a very limited scenario, certain filesystem and large non-concurrent file access. As we know that can suggest a dozen MB/s or more when the actual performance doing something routine like copying 2000 office documents is much lower.

To put it in perspective I have found that my Pico typically has performance about 30% slower than other flash drives purchased at the same time (these being low-end products but I did try to avoid the slowest products available).

I don't mind this 30% difference, the tiny size is great. Would've been nice if it had an LED, and nicer still if they had made the metal casing the right width as it is actually a little out of spec, too wide and bends the sides of a USB port meaning you have to apply a fair amount of pressure to insert or remove it from a port.

Since this kind of problem has been reported by many people, and it's something so obvious and impossible to not notice, I can only assume that no matter how hard they tried to shrink it down to a narrower size, this is the absolute slimmest they could make it.

I ended up lapping the sides of mine. Now instead of shiney nickel it looks dingy gray but at least it fits a little better. I wouldn't have even bothered but I didn't want to damage the port on my laptop since it's soldered directly on the mainboard, with a desktop port on the case front I'd just use a larger hammer. ;)


I Wonder....
By krichmond on 7/30/2009 10:26:01 AM , Rating: 5
How much does it weigh when its FULL????




RE: I Wonder....
By xsilver on 7/30/2009 10:46:15 PM , Rating: 2
Depends on what is in it.....


Proofreading
By Low Key on 7/29/2009 7:32:41 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
The 32GB drive can also be has in versions that offer AES 256-bit hardware encryption as well.


I'm guessing that means that it comes with encryption.




RE: Proofreading
By beyazkeyat on 8/4/2009 12:48:34 PM , Rating: 2
I can haz encrypshun?


Doggonit!!!!
By borowki2 on 7/29/2009 1:19:28 PM , Rating: 2
I just got a 32G Flash drive a few months ago. It's the size of a pack of gums. Obsolete already!




Perhaps save fifteen bucks...
By truk007 on 7/31/2009 1:33:14 AM , Rating: 2
version of the drive with added hardware encryption sells for $99

Wouldn't it be possible to use an free encryption program like TrueCrypt and save fifteen bucks? TrueCrypt might even be a better encryption program, but I don't know much about that software.




Interesting . . .
By blueboy09 on 8/1/2009 11:44:08 AM , Rating: 2
And now you see why it's becoming popular in mobile devices as memory gets smaller and smaller, they can cram more and more in a tiny space. Isn't tech wonderful when used in a tiny way? - BLUEBOY




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