Kaser Corporation Kaser miniVault 8GB USB 2.0 Mobile (Silver) Hard Drive

Pros: There is nothing Pro about this device.
Cons: It simply does not work regardless of the computers I have tried it in. 

I bought one of these pieces of crap. I returned it and had it replaced twice and it still didn't work. So they said they would test another one and then send it to me as a replacement. So I got the third and it worked - ONCE. The very next time I ...

Pros: There are no pros to this item best place for it is in the garbage
Cons: Kaser and its distributors are cons they take your money and dont provide good value

This product does not work. I downloaded precious data and could not retrieve it. Bad news after original items deleted.

Pros: Worked well for 4-5 months.
Cons: Did not make it to 6th month!

Bought two (2) of these because the price was pretty reasonable for the capacity. Both units worked well for about 4-5 months. Used them as "shuttles" for rather large zip/tar files and was happy and impressed - even dropped them, accidentally, a couple of times without losing anything. Then, both "died" within weeks of each other. Maybe it was a sympathy thing. I'm taking a hammer to both of them.

Pros: Cool microdrive technology.  Take it apart and impress your friends.
Cons: Universal infant failure. Almost everyone reports failure after a short time.

There is a good reason that Cornice Corp of Colorado is out of business. They bet the farm on micro drive technology when flash memory prices were falling like a rock. Despite their "crash guard" technology, these devices seem to work for about a month or less before they start click-click-clicking and are no longer recognized by your OS and your data is gone.  I purchased mine at Frys and it came bundled with the Xvault Mambo portable media player, which actually works quite well despite the clunky interface. Now that you can buy an 8GB flash drive for $15, there is no point in putting your data in the trust of moving storage. Yes, Kaser has no support.  I learned that years ago when I bought a "Yo Fun" MP3 player.  Like many other "brand-x products", this is one of those take your chances hit or miss offerings. I still have a 256MB CF micro drive which is still working so microdrives can and do work.  But this production run should be avoided.

Pros: None
Cons: Pitiful quality and no customer support. 

I purchased 2 of these 8 G vault drives.  One didn't work out of the box and the other died in less than a month. 
I got absolutely no support from the company.  Will not answer email.  Their are plenty of reputable USB drive companies for you to support.

Due to there lack of any support I recommend you stay away from all of their products.

Pros: It's shiny. Has a pretty blue light.
Cons: Doesn't work.

Why are these pieces of crap being sold? Sure they're pretty paper weights. Sure they might make cool earrings. They may even serve as useful door stops, but don't put your data on them. Right out of the package, the ones I bought did not work. It made some cool grinding sound, as if it was trying....but nothing. The blue light flashed, like something was about to happen...but the computer did not recognize that anything was plugged in. If there is ever a class action law suit, I want my $.03 - which is all we would probably get.

Pros: None
Cons: Bought 2 of 12gb disks and both do not work.

Bought 2 Kaser miniVault 12gb drives. First one did not work at all and the second one worked one time and then would not work again. Bought them from ECost and they will not accept them as returns. I would not buy these.

Pros: If it HAD worked, it would have been a nice amount of storage space
Cons: Unfortunately it didn't, and from other reviews here that seems pretty typical.

I was told by the guy in store "Sure, I've used one of these, they're good". I was hesitating about buying this or buying a duracell 4Gb USB memory stick. I wish I'd gone with the warning bells and avoided this, I guess greed got the better of me.

Got it home, and the cable was missing. Not a major problem, since a USB connector is integral, but annoying that it wasn't complete. Plugged it into my XP Desktop, and it seemed to install okay. When it finished installing I double clicked on it... and got told "Insert a disk, there's nothing in that drive". Same thing with my Vista laptop, when I try to populate the device it says there's nothing there, and it can't be formatted because there's no drive showing.

All in all, a dead waste. Certainly not worth even $1 let alone the $30 I paid for it. I'm not getting another one, when this goes back tomorrow I'll obey my original desire, and have a proper USB flash drive. Smaller, yes - but far more reliable

Pros: They appear to be a great value.
Cons: They don't work, or they do, not for very long. Poor customer support from Kaser.

I purchased one at Bestbuy for $44.99. It worked for about 2 weeks, and then became unreadable. Unfortunately I tossed out the receipt so I am stuck with a paper weight now. 3 emails to Kaser with no responses at all! Stay away from these at all costs!

Pros: none
Cons: DEFECTIVE

i've bought it and it didn't work.
returned it for one that worked once.
doesn't work since.

apparently many people have found these defective.

Pros: None
Cons: It is defective

Mine worked one time and never worked again.  Buyer beware, this a lemon!  I'm trying to get a refund or replacement.  Kaser does not answer e-mails and phone calls are not returned.  The Alameda Co. Better Business Bureau says Kaser has had 50 complaints in the past 36 months.

Pros: sleek design, nice color, USB connection fits... (notice a pattern)
Cons:

likely DOA, runs hot, short life cycle

I bought 2 from ecost... great price, why not? I'll tell you why not... Based on the precious reviews and my personal experience, apparently this product was not engineered for multiple uses, like say a Solid State/Flash Drive.

The 1st unit was DOA. ;-| However, ecost promptly exchanged with a replacement unit, which is still unopened. The 2nd unit has failed after loading about 4G's of data, and only accessing the data for work on occasion within 30 days. I figured it wouldn't last long, so I wasn't "crushed" when I lost the data. ...and I never dropped either
unit.

I haven't opened the replacement unit, but my guess is... if it works at all, it won't work for long.

Pros: can not say any thing good about these products from kaser!
Cons: no company support, or help when they malfunction!

do not buy any thing from the kaser company! espically the mini vaults!
they will not work only for a short time then you can not retrieveve your information ever again!
you will get no support or help from tihs company, none what so ever!
i have emailed them for help, never to hear from them as of todate. they know that they have built a piece of junk and do not want to stand behind there product!
every time i go to the computer store now i warn every body plus complain to the store management about the kaser products. i know it wont do much good but i have stoped 15 people from buying there products and those people i hope will stop 15 more people each until somebody gets the message and takes care of business! i hope that everybody who reads this does the same and keeps it going!
thanks for your time, earl from phoenix ,az.
ewfostere@yahoo.com

Pros: Only slightly lower cost than a typical solid state flash stick.
Cons: High likelihood of failure due to mechanical parts in micro hard drive.

It makes no sense whatsoever for a company to invest immense amounts of money on a portable memory product based on a micro hard drive that is susceptible to mechanical failure in a market dominated with solid state flash memory technologies that have ZERO susceptibility to mechanical failure. 

What were they thinking at Cornice?  They are about 15 years too late with this micro hard drive technology.  

Stay away from this product.

Pros: NONE
Cons: Product is poor quality. STAY AWAY FROM PURCHASING THIS PRODUCT

Around the end of November 2008, I purchased the 8 gb unit. The unit initially worked. When I bought it I figured I take it back and forth to work with me.  I have several flash disk that I carry with me, but I figured that this 8 gb unit I could use for larger amount of data transfers. Beside the initial test, ( after I purchased it ) I did not use it at all until..... then in early February 2009, I tried to save data on it and it did not work. I had it for less than 3 months and it doesn't work.