Lexar JumpDrive FireFly USB Flash Drive (4GB)

• Average user rating: 1.0 stars out of 2 reviews
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• 3 stars

  Very very SLOW

  by GETZO on June 4, 2007

  Pros: Nice design, high capacity

  Cons: VERY SLOW write speed

  Summary: The drive has a great design, it looks neat, the blue LED is really nice, but the write speed in very slow. I don´t have the specs of this ...

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  Summary: The drive has a great design, it looks neat, the blue LED is really nice, but the write speed in very slow. I don´t have the specs of this thing, because they don´t exist.
  
  Lexar support people said the problem was the MLC (Multi Layer Cell) technology used in these devices. Fast drives use SLC (Single Layer Cell). This is not specified anywhere in the package nor the drive.
  
  Writing 350MB in the Firefly takes between 3 to 4min, writing the same file in my other USB drives takes less than a minute.
  
  I wrote 3.15GB to the Firefly and took me about 30 minuts, that is about 100MB per minute. For me, that´s poor performance.
  
  The device was not cheap, so the poor permance can´t be justified by the price. I will return to the store as soon as possible.

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• 1 stars

  Worked for 3 weeks before it completely failed with all data lost.

  by California Pro User on August 31, 2008

  Pros: very pretty product

  Cons: NOT Reliable, No Manufacturer Support, Warranty Not Honored, Manufacturer does not respond to requests for assistance

  Summary: A 1 Rating is too much for this product. This product, the Lexar LEJDF4GB JumpDrive FireFly - 4GB Capacity, worked for about 3 weeks before it failed completely with about $...

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  Summary: A 1 Rating is too much for this product. This product, the Lexar LEJDF4GB JumpDrive FireFly - 4GB Capacity, worked for about 3 weeks before it failed completely with about $3,000 worth of data loaded on it. I had just enough time to load it with data before offloading. I paid $27.50 for this product and as you read on you'll see it cost me alot more.
  
  Of course, I contacted the LEXAR company about their product many times to get assistance with the problem. Their online chat service just walked me through useless steps to confirm that their product was defective. Only one time, did they answer my numorous emails, claiming that their "tool" to respond to customers was not working before. The LEXAR company's one time response suggested that I take their defective drive to a data recovery service ($300 minumum cost to me) and then after the data recovery (if possible) I should reformat their defective drive for reuse. Even with that "disfunctional tool" problem they said they had behind us, LEXAR has never responded again to my requests for assistance with their defective product.
  
  I have purchased a data recovery program at more than 3X the cost of the LEXAR jumpdrive to rescue my data. Everyone agrees, I would be insane to take LEXAR's suggestion to reformat their defective drive so that I can relive this entire time-consuming and costly situation over again. The best and safest place for this product is to drop it in the closest trash can.
  
  Thank you for letting me share my shopping experience with you and let you know how dissatisfied I am with the LEXAR company and it's worthless, time-consuming, and very expensive product. Did you notice that it has a 2-year limited warranty? LEXAR has made no attempt to honor that.
  
  Buyer Beware! LEXAR's product is worthless if it's not reliable. Buy a Kingston, San Disk or Sony instead. I have flash drives from these manufacturers that are years old and still work perfectly. This time I fell for LEXAR's new pretty product. I won't make that mistake again.
  
  A Very Dissatisfied Customer,
  Flash Disk Professional User

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