Crucial Gizmo! 1GB USB Drive

Using the Gizmo is simple and easy. Most have USB ports on the front of their PC, and have no trouble plugging the little device into the USB slot. The cover for the USB plug on the Gizmo slides off and on easily, but is snug so that it won’t slip off.

While in use the USB Drive has an indicator light on the front to show that it is in use. Make sure you don’t remove the device when the light is on, or else you could damage your data. When your done transferring data use your Remove Hardware option and stop the Gizmo drive, and safely remove it from your PC. Simple as that.

Now, my PC has a 1.1 USB Port, whereas our other PC has a 2.0. So I ran a benchmark on both PC’s with SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2005 to test the performance differences between the two. Listed first is the benchmark from my PC. As expected, compared to the other USB devices tested on a 2.0 Port the performance was down. Yet I still uploaded over 20MB of photos onto the device in less than 10 seconds. So even though my port worked slower than the others did on the 2.0 port I was still impressed.

Second I ran the benchmark on my second home PC with the 2.0 USB port. With this test the Gizmo performed just as well if not better than the other USB devices. Uploading and transferring the same documents to the Gizmo on this PC took absolutely no time at all, and was practically an instant transfer.

After using the USB device I have to say I’m impressed and hooked, and love using the small device. It is so much easier for me to plug it into my PC, upload a ton of images that I couldn’t normally hold on floppy, and take them anywhere with me to share. I was impressed with the Gizmo’s
performance, even on my slow 1.1 USB port, and would highly recommend purchasing one. It’s well worth it.

Thank you to Crucial for allowing us to test the Gizmo! I’m pleased to give it a 10/10. Please feel free to discuss the review in our related thread! Registration is not required!