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Drive Details
- USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Interface with full USB 2.0 compatibility
- USB 3.0: up to 85 MB/s read and 44 MB/s write
- USB 2.0: up to 37 MB/s read and 28 MB/s write
- 5x better portable app performance on USB 2.0 than most retail USB 2.0 drives
- PortableApps.com to carry your favorite software
- Carry your web browser and bookmarks
- Carry your whole music collection
- Carry your whole office suite
- Make every computer your own!
- Durable high-impact aluminum case with a classy blue activity light
- Laser-etched with your name, quote or URL at no extra cost
- Choice of 4 great-looking colors: black, red, blue or gray
- Packaged in an attractive custom tin, making it a great gift for the holidays
- Lifetime warranty as well as a 30-day postage-paid return policy
- Available in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB sizes starting at under $30!
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Portable Apps throughout my life
Unfortunately, I already have a good flash drive, and USB 3.0 support is rare still. None of my PCs or campus computers have it. Have used PortableApps since high school when in 10th grade I began running Firefox from my Flash Drive to avoid using ie7 and ie8. Helped me a great deal with my work. And the admins were happy too. They had no problem with me running Firefox, as it was completely portable. It respected filtering, and even WOT and Google Safebrowsing added to that security. Everyone wanted to use my Firefox to get on Facebook. I used Firefox for HTML5 compliance. I could not use even basic Google Search or Gmail or Drive with ie7. Thanks to Portable Apps, I was editing documents in the cloud years before it became popular. On a regular basis! Students and teachers thought I was running a virus that was Communist open source software. XD Felt like a rebel with it. They never blocked it. They blocked Chrome, so I ran SRWare iron and Firefox (mostly Firefox). It had up to date Flash, so nobody else could even watch a video for the assignments (school was on Flash 9 or 10) while I was on 11.2! Thank you for taking my work into the future. Thankfully, our IT guy was friendly to me. I was told by some of my teachers to close Firefox, so I gave it a complete ie7 theme. They couldn't tell. Little did they know I was just using PortableApps to increase productivity. I have donated in the past and plan to again. But no flash drives from here for me, until my next upgrade. But these are appealing offers for those who need a new Flash drive and wish to get acquainted with PortableApps. And by the way, when all was quiet before graduation, I was running Chromium BSU and FreeCiv, which amazed students and teachers alike. I felt special. I used it to combat a virus some teacher had managed to get on his laptop. Unfortunately, the payload was delievered by said virus and reformatting was required. Plus I didn't have administrative privileges. Nobody knew what a Portable App was back in 2008 or 2009 in school. Only the geeks had them. I was already learning Linux. XD Thank you open source, thank you Mozilla, and thank you Portable Apps!
44 MB/s sequential write is
44 MB/s sequential write is not bad, but I think 4K performance is more relevant for Portable Apps.
Write protect
When you're ready to commission the next batch, could you make some with a write protect switch?
This is very useful when going from one client to the next as you can be sure that you don't pick up anything nasty from the client's site.
Although some apps do require full read/write access, many do not.
Thanks.
Indeed, there are very few
Indeed, there are very few devices with a physical write-protect switch.
Given the features of some trouble-shooting applications like anti-virus etc then it seems somewhat contradictory the ease at which the device could be written to.
I welcome that suggestion, or would at least appreciate a recommendation for a recent and readily available alternative.
Highly Unlikely
This would be highly unlikely. None of the parts we use provide this ability any longer nor do any of the standard cases for USB drives. There's simply not enough demand for read-only. In addition, we no longer test or officially support running our apps from read-only media. We left the feature enabled, but it may or may not work as it has many of the apps have had multiple versions released since it was last tested.
dead
Hi
After using this flash drive only a few times... it's dead. On both Windows 7 and 8 I get a message to "Please insert a disk into Removable Disk" followed by whatever drive letter is assigned to the flash drive. It hold 0 bytes, can not be formatted or checked, and is useless. I can't find any help on this on Google, or maybe I'm searching on the wrong terms, but nothing I've tried has helped.
Any ideas on how I get this replaced or my money refunded?
Rich
Sorry to hear
but your drive is covered by a lifetime warranty so all is not lost.
Please check out the details here for info on how to claim on the warranty.
Thanks - that's the info I
Thanks - that's the info I couldn't find!