Flash drives have come down in price considerably in recent years, and now we have many great options (like this one from Silicon Power) at the price point that it’s almost too trivial to matter. Even as more and more of our files are being transferred to the cloud, it’s still great to have an easily accessible physical storage available for a quick transfer of files between your computers and other devices.

One of the most appealing aspects of this flash drive is its design. It is very compact, simply-designed, and being made out of single metal piece incredibly sturdy. The flash drive is meant to be carried around on a key-chain, which is very convenient and secure. (I’ve lost too many flash drives over the years that I had been carrying in my pocket or the messenger bag.) However, if your key-chain happens to be very cluttered with keys and other carry-on items then you will want to attach and detach the flash drive whenever you use it. This can be a bit of a pain with this design, and I recommend you get a small carabiner for that purpose.

The main reason I wanted a really large capacity flash drive is for the purpose of transferring and watching large video files. As the true HD recording (1080p) becomes ubiquitous in all of our video recording devices, the size of the recorded files can increase beyond what is easily transferrable. However, even if you have a really large flash drive like this one, you may not be able to transfer some of the really large files. This flash drive, like most other ones out there, is formatted to the Fat32 file system. This is a very widely spread file system, easily readable by the Mac, Windows, Linux computer, as well as a wide assortment of smart TVs, Blu Ray players, tablets, etc. Unfortunately this file system has the disadvantage that it limits the file size to 4 GB. So I decided to try out a few other file system formattings, and I discovered that the one that overall worked the best was NTSF. It allows for much larger files, but unfortunately it’s not as easily readable by the variety of devices as the Fat32. One of its advantages is that it’s recognized by a variety of modern Blu Ray players, as well as Google TV and perhaps some other smart TVs. It works natively with the Windows machines, and it can be also accessed from Macs with the use of third-party software. So far it has been a really great and efficient way of getting to watch my home videos on the big screen.

Overall, this is a great flash drive that with a bit of tinkering can be used for a variety of very cool purposes. Strongly recommended.