Short Review of the Patriot 16gb Xporter Thumb Drive

I bought this thumb drive to go with my new Asus EEE PC. It does the trick. 16GB is a phenomenal size for a thumb drive. There's also a 32gb model too. I paid something like $50 for my 16GB model after lame mail in rebate.

For what it is and what it does it works great. No annoying software preinstalled like on the Verbatim for example.

There's a rubbery coating on my Patriot thumb drive which is sort of neat but it makes it really big and sort of annoying too. I'll probably remove the coating eventually as it will probably loosen over time anyway. The cap is made of the same material and it's terrible. I'm not even sure where the cap is right now. They really need to attach the cap to the body somehow on these things.

If the OCZ Rally 2 16GB wasn't sold out I would have bought that instead.

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