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Customer Reviews for SanDisk® Cruzer® USB 2.0 Flash Drive, 32GB
SanDisk® Cruzer® USB 2.0 Flash Drive, 32GB
Item #:785065
Average Customer Rating:
(22 Reviews) 22
Rating Snapshot (22 reviews)
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10 of 22(45%)reviewers would recommend this product to a friend.
Customer Reviews for SanDisk® Cruzer® USB 2.0 Flash Drive, 32GB
Review 1 for SanDisk® Cruzer® USB 2.0 Flash Drive, 32GB
August 5, 2011
BlueLu
Portland, OR
Quality
1
out of
5
Meets Expectations
1
out of
5
I am a(n):Home Office
Primary Use:Business User
Bought this product:Online
Gender:Female
Age:46 - 65
Non-secure security; poor access
Cons: "security" is not secure, access is tedious at best, encryption/unencryption is w-a-a-a-y slow, no way to password protect the whole drive, data is vulnerable to malicious deletion, company unresponsive to user complaints re above
SanDisk used to have a great program for password protecting its Cruzer flash drives. Using the U3 program, anyone without the password to a stolen/found Cruzer flash drive could not access its files in any manner.
Alas, the U3 program "reached the end of its useful life" in 2009 (per the company) and is not compatible with SanDisk's current flash drives. (I'm guessing this means the person who programmed U3 found a job elsewhere. Maybe with Verbatim, which has a similar password protection for its flash drives.)
The current, comically misnamed Secure Access program they offer is an utter failure at both security and access.
ANYONE can plug this Cruzer into a computer and find the files in "My Vaults." ANYONE can delete those files.
It DOES allow you to encrypt files. That keeps ANYONE (including the owner of the flash drive) from using those files until they have been moved out of the "vault" and unencrypted. Then, once you finish working with the file, if you want it to be protected, you have to move it back into the vault and encrypt it again.
This leaves an obvious security hole: unless the user is compulsive about encrypting on every use, the unencrypted version is available to anyone who gains possession of the Cruzer. The encryption and unencryption process is beyond slow, so only the truly compulsive will bother. And, even if encrypted, the files are still vulnerable to deletion.
After 5 increasingly large SanDisks, this will be my last one until and unless SanDisk returns to providing a way to password protect its USB flash drives.
Alas, the U3 program "reached the end of its useful life" in 2009 (per the company) and is not compatible with SanDisk's current flash drives. (I'm guessing this means the person who programmed U3 found a job elsewhere. Maybe with Verbatim, which has a similar password protection for its flash drives.)
The current, comically misnamed Secure Access program they offer is an utter failure at both security and access.
ANYONE can plug this Cruzer into a computer and find the files in "My Vaults." ANYONE can delete those files.
It DOES allow you to encrypt files. That keeps ANYONE (including the owner of the flash drive) from using those files until they have been moved out of the "vault" and unencrypted. Then, once you finish working with the file, if you want it to be protected, you have to move it back into the vault and encrypt it again.
This leaves an obvious security hole: unless the user is compulsive about encrypting on every use, the unencrypted version is available to anyone who gains possession of the Cruzer. The encryption and unencryption process is beyond slow, so only the truly compulsive will bother. And, even if encrypted, the files are still vulnerable to deletion.
After 5 increasingly large SanDisks, this will be my last one until and unless SanDisk returns to providing a way to password protect its USB flash drives.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Review 2 for SanDisk® Cruzer® USB 2.0 Flash Drive, 32GB
October 29, 2009
PaperboyCA
Glendale, CA
Quality
2
out of
5
Meets Expectations
1
out of
5
I am a(n):Home Office
Primary Use:Home User
Gender:Male
Age:26 - 35
High capacity drives need to be NTFS
Pros: nice slider
Cons: needs to be ntfs
I got this drive to store some high cap files (greater than 4GB). This drive ships with FAT32 and if you want to use U3 using NTFS, its gets a little complicated. When I formatted the drive to NTFS, I lost the U3 software. I'm not sure if I would have really liked it too much, but it would have been nice to at least try. Since FAT32 does not allow you to save files greater than 4GB, it becomes a problem with these larger capacity drives.
10 of 12 people found this review helpful.
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