ATP Petito & Tough Drive Mini USB 2.0 Flash Drives

Introduction:

Now that we're in full swing for the Holiday Season and everyone is beginning to hasten their pace hunting down those cool gifts. Even your work place has probably increased their vigilance in completing any tasks before the year's end. As we are all scurrying about like crazed ants on the hunt, one thing remains center stage this year. For instance, stores are all about MP3 or Video player of sorts as well as any and everything High Definition Audio and Video. And don't forget the computer laptop and desktop craze. Almost everything is about technology and anything having to do with it that comes in the form of a gift is usually much appreciated.

The point is, all of these technologies involve one thing; data. If it's not on a disc, it's probably being downloaded over the internet. The days of burning discs appear to be slowing as technology starts leaning to solid state storage. While we all would love any array of large capacity SSD storage, it is rarely ever convenient to transport. That's why we continually see smaller, ever growing USB Flash Drives. These days, 2GB flash drives are the common size and can be found at just about every store that sales anything related to technology.

This past Black Friday, day after Thanksgiving, offered thousands upon thousands of 2GB flash drives for the early bird shoppers. Even online shoppers have found these little gifts to come in handy in more than just the home. While you can store quite a few MP3 and small video files on them, they also serve an invaluable purpose at the office. It's the easiest, quickest, most convenient way to pass around a file that's too big or too information sensitive to pass over the internet, or office network.

ATP is one such provider of flash drive memory. They offer high density and high capacity flash media memory products which includes computer memory modules. They were kind enough to send us two of their newest solutions, the Petito 2GB and Tough Drive Mini 2GB Flash Drives. These are USB 2.0 compatible, Water Proof, offer durable Dependable Storage, built in Security Protection, and are Windows Ready Boost capable for Vista users.


Specifications:

Petito 2GB Flash Drive – the Ultra Fast and Small USB 2.0 Flash Drive

• Windows® ReadyBoost™ Compatible - All ATP USB drives are enhanced for use with Windows® ReadyBoost™

• Dimensions: 9.4mm x 17.6mm x 36.3mm (D x W x L)

• Weight: less than 8g

• Up to 30MB/s data transfer rate, fully compatible with USB specification version 2.0 and 1.1

• Powered by USB bus - no external power is required

• Durable solid-state storage - 10 years data retention

• Hot Plug & Play – enable you to install and uninstall Petito anytime

• Security application - allow you to create a unique password

Front	Back

The Petito 2GB Flash Drive is essentially built within a pink brushed aluminum housing. The words that various colleagues have used to describe the Petito is "very cute", "sleek", and "really, really cool". It's small enough you could carry it in any camera or lap top bag. This drive is just a bit larger than a quarter which means it's not just compact, it's almost a key chain. The Petito is definitely more apt to be picked up by the ladies given that it's so pretty and petite, hence the name.

Front

Really Small

The Petito is actually really well designed and uses good quality aluminum to create the classy housing. It definitely deserves something like a small chain of sorts just to class it up. The small nylon tassel is more for convenience, but doesn't quite do it justice.

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