Sony Reviews

This won't work in pre-2003 Sony devices, as Sony made a design mistake on original memory stick (and kept its consumers in dark). Neither would existing card readers work.

These sticks contain MagicGate protection. This means that you won't get even 488 MegaBytes of actual space from this 512 MillionBytes stick. MagicGate uses up significant space (40MB) and create all kinds of hassles in transfers of things like mp3's.

But wait that's not all, these sticks are kinda obsolete already. These won't work in any SonyEricsson cell phones or smaller Sony devices like Stick Walkman & newer U series Cybershot cameras.

If you want to invest in sticks buy a MS Duo Pro stick, the latest of half a dozen stick formats from Sony. (Soon most cell phones will have a slot for removable flash media) Or you can say no to all Sony devices and buy SD/MMC based gadgets to avoid all these hassles.

Are you kidding me? I don't understand how Memory Stick Pro is not compatible with my current Sony products? The new cards are finally offering me the capacity I need but I can't use them without upgrading product!! Can you spell F-R-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-N-G!! Talk about getting left in the lurch. I have been a loyal Sony product buyer for years, but am thinking about making a switch. I did some research and it seems there are a lot more choices out there that support the same - if not more and better products - and the media capacity is just as good and works with all products available. I checked out a new Panasonic camera and a Palm that supports SD - I'm making the switch.

Don't think Memory Stick Pro format won't last if they keep this up.

I picked this up for use with my recently purchased Sony digital camera, and it works great. Unfortunately almost all Sony products manufactured before 2003 cannot use these new high-capacity Memory Sticks.

Another sticking point is that only 460MB is usable on this stick, losing a whopping 52MB to the file system and Magic Gate overhead. I also own a 256MB version, and that has 220MB free.

Write speeds are noticeably faster compared to the older Memory Stick media, as well as read speeds in my USB 2.0 reader. Luckily the price has come down on these, and if your hardware can support it, these new Memory Sticks are worth picking up.

I used this thumb drive, provided by work, after working with a smaller (64mb) fujifilm one I had purchased myself. I was amazed by the untility of the thumb drive concept and thought a larger one would only be better. Retiring the fujifilm I transferred all of my files to the Sony. It functioned perfectly for several months leading me into a false sense of security. Until...

One day at work the drive would not recognize as it should on a laptop. I tried it out on my workstation and it still seemed fine, big sigh of relief. I brought it home that night and plugged it into laptop and got an install screen for a security device. I tried installing it but with no success, and now it doesn't function on any computer. It seems that something internal to the drive had set the entire drive as a security device. I tried every thing I could find, eventually installing drivers from the original manufacturer(not sony as labeled, prolific technology makes it) Apparently there is a fix that involves reformatting the entire drive, but it's not a simple process. I just left it as trash and moved back to the fuji. All of the files are gone and not recoverable, including the latest draft of my grad school thesis.

It decides to mount as a security device. Not as a drive. Sony offer absolutely no help in fixing this problem. They are not accesible and could care less about this problem. Sony has shamed themselves with this product and disregard for those of us needing to resolve the issue.

I now have an $80 stick that doesnot function and no way to fix it.

Yes, it works with XP and true to its USB 2.0 heritage it is fast too, however...

It's big and bulky so its only reasonable to keep it like lose change in your pocket, but then, by 30 days it will have cracked it in two.

Oh yes, the design is really slick but the cover does not reattach once removed, so put that in the bin since you are going to lose it anyhow.

And on a cold winters night what better thing to keep you warm than a SONY micro vault, yes sir, this device is gona get hot and suck the life from your laptop battery.

Not designed for keyrings (not that any other flash drive is either).