I seem to have accumulated rather a large amount of files on my computer over the years. These are mainly pictures and videos, but there are also a few hundred word documents, lots of music files and the odd few other bits and pieces floating around. Technology being what it is you can't always guarantee that things are going tow work properly and this is certainly the case with computers. Having experienced the blue screen of death a few years ago, the importance of backing up my files was really hammered home. To do that I often use these, pen drives or memory stick or flash drives as they are also known. I have quite a few of these lying around the house now and .  Read the complete review

A sleek USB pen drive that's as about big as my thumb, packing a whopping 8GB of storage into its case. I had a little difficulty getting the cap off it at first - I thought that the square bit towards the bottom was a release button, like on some of the SanDisk pen drives, but it's not - it's the activity LED. I had to tug the cap off with a bit of force as it's very secure, with a couple of latching notches (unlike the 4GB Gizmo! Overdrive one I have; reviewed separately). I plugged it into one of my laptop's USB ports and, after a brief pause while Windows XP identified it (correctly as a Crucial Gizmo! drive) and installed the correct ...  Read the complete review