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Posted at 7:10 AM on Tuesday 05/20/08 by
Ben
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Buy.com has the Dane-Elec 8GB zMate USB 2.0 Pen Drive Kit for $37 - $12 rebate [Exp 5/26] = $25 with free shipping. Supports Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux Kernel 2.4.10, Mac OS 9.x and more. [BizRate]
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    superman2005 - Posted 9:32 am PDT 05/20/08 (947 Posts)  Report Spam

    anyone know if this is fast? Cant find any reviews online...

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    dave_c - Posted 10:03 am PDT 05/20/08 (17698 Posts)  Report Spam

    Reviews of the lower capacity zMates showed them to be very slow, and usually if any in a product line are faster among the family it is the lower capacity models.

    In other words, expect slow but the price is pretty good. It's a bit bulbous though, why did they have to go out of their way to make it fatter than it needed to be, for geeks that need an extra bulge in their pants?

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    numbers - Posted 11:12 am PDT 05/20/08 (1 Posts)  Report Spam

    I have this drive -- I'd say it's mid-range on speed:
    Seq read = 17.5 MB/s
    Seq write = 8 MB/s
    Random read = 17.5 MB/s
    Random write = 2.2 MB/s (100 MB blocks)

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    bostonman - Posted 2:02 pm PDT 05/20/08 (1485 Posts)  Report Spam

    Not bad at all!

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    superman2005 - Posted 8:43 pm PDT 05/20/08 (947 Posts)  Report Spam

    wow someone signed up just to post the speeds.


    Update: I received my drive and its very fast.
    400MB of assorted mp3s (3-5mb) in 45 seconds. (8MB/s)
    I'm happy Smile

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