I have the SanDisk SDCZ2-128-768 128 MB Cruzer Mini USB 2.0 Flash Drive, and its lightening speed, ease of use and portability, economical size, beautiful blue light when on, makes me want to purchase this 256 MB Cruser...and I will since the price went down below $26.00.

I use the 128 transfering files and photos between my Dell laptop 8600 Inspiron and my other Dell laptop 2500 Inspiron. Both laptops recognizes the 128 immediately when I plug it into the USB ports. And both laptops recognizes and uses its 2.0 high speed.

I couldn't want for a more durable, high quality, exacting Flash Drive for my portable conditions in my home office. The 256 MB Cruzer Mini USB 2.0 Flash Drive is on its way to my beautiful home in Sedona at this very moment.

Out of the box, it worked approximately a quarter of the time on the same computer (iBook OSX). Same thing occured on other computers (PCs). Complete waste of money and time trying to deal with it. Scandisk costumer support was worthless, giving pre-made information from a similar questions and it still did not work. Don't by Scandisk.

The Cruzer Mini is an ideal and affordable solution instead of using several floppy's or R/CD's. In my line of work I move around alot and need to copy and change files on the run. The 256 MB flash drive is more than enough to handle all my txt files, my pics and small programs. I wear the flash drive around my neck so I have my hands free and, if needed, I can plug it in any computer (almost any :) computer) around to do my work. For larger files it is not handy, but than, for an average user it is worth the money. No more (damaged) floppy's, no more searching for the right floppy in a sea of floppy's, everything on one flash drive - alot of floppy's.

Although the system makes the noise of recognition that this thing is attached, it is nowhere to be found when trying to access it. I'm nt that computer savvy, but I've talked w/ others, and it is supposed to plug in and work. This does not. Buy something else.

I've had it about 4 months, and it's been totally reliable. (However, I certainly would not use it to permanently back-up data -- that's a bad idea in so many ways.) When I got it, I could not figure out how to attach the lanyard, so I just keep the drive in my shirt pocket. I go back and forth from Mac to PC all the time with no problems. Have not tried the encryption. The size of the drive is very good because it can fit side-by-side with another USB plug. Some of the other flash drives I've seen are quite fat, and cannot do this.