OCZ Megakart to carry around 8GB or 16GB

http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/ocz_megakart/

I'm seriously considering this product :P
Good for backup, carry in wallet huge files, up to 16 gigs of stuff! The file transfer is also apparently interesting, at 30 MB/s read and somewhere around 7MB/s write on USB2. Definately much faster transfer times than my 2GB stick I paid 30$ about a year ago.

The fact it's shaped like a credit card to me is also interesting, becaus ethen you can label the cart, which is very practical. And apparently it's very robust.

Anyhow, this is not a review, but an impression. I haven't got the hand's down impression, but just read stuff on theweb about it.

The size of the kart is 4mm thick, by 53mm by 84mm.

Cheers.

I just bought a Sandisk Cruzer Micro 1GB for about 7.8 euro. Dont' waste your money in these products: their prices will drop every week!
And for back up it's better the old-classic Cd-Rom/DVD-ROM (maybe many copies of it)
I've already lost data on an older usb-memory...

degac, you probably have never heard of OCZ before. You're obviously used to buying cheap disposable devices that fail (7.8 euros Sandisk). The price drop every week on the cheap crap that you buy (which fail), not on quality branded stuff like Corsair, OCZ and the likes.

I've had CDs and DVDs fail on me on multiple occasions, specially MEMOREX, ARITA, PRINCO and various nonames. Stuff I worked on, music, imagery, and programming, lost due to the poor recordable disk media. On the other hand, my SONY, HP, Maxell and Kodak disks (some are 10 years old) still work fine. My Fujifilm and Benq disks are iffy, but not as bad as the first I mentionned.

Now I'm talking about a USB device, not a disk media.

>SONY, HP, Maxell and Kodak disks (some are 10 years old) still work fine.

Very true, I have a few bunch of Kodak CD-R that still work well for more than 6 years.

However CD-R is just too small today.

SONY's DVD is my current favorite because they works in a more reasonable fashion of stability and reliabliity.

Probably would have been a good idea to check your facts before climbing aboard your high horse ;) SanDisk Usb sticks are quality branded stuff, every bit as reliable as OCZ, and do not routinely "fail" as they are not "cheap crap".

In fact about the only area in which OCZ usb sticks have any advantage over SanDisk is that SanDisk are not ( normally* ) as fast. If you're happy to pay through the nose because you routinely can't wait thirty seconds for files to transfer, then that's great, but you could certainly stand to do more reading up on USB sticks.

*SanDisk speeds seem to vary quite dramatically. Sometimes you'll buy a stick and it gets 50% ( or more ) higher speed than advertized. Generally, they're sort of mid-range speed though, whereas OCZ USB sticks are very quick.

EDIT: In fairness, I should probably add that SanDisk are one of the most counterfeited brands, so perhaps you're confusing real SanDisk sticks with cheap counterfeits.

I hope that USB connector is detachable with a cable, otherwise that thing wouldn't fit into any of my USB ports without having to remove everything around them first....

Yeah that usb port seems like the only problem with it, that and I would be worried about snapping it in two. I wonder how tough the casing is..