Verbatim Store 'n' Go Pro USB Flash Drive (64GB)

The more data you store, the more important it becomes that you have a way to keep private data private, even if your USB drive is borrowed, stolen, or lost. The Verbatim Store 'n' Go Pro USB Flash Drive (64GB) ($117 street) fits the bill exactly, providing 64GB of storage with password protection and 256-bit AES hardware data encryption. When smaller drives like the Editors' Choice Kingston DataTraveler Locker+ (8GB, $14 street, 4 stars) are simply too small to cut it, the Store 'n' Go Pro is the easy choice for sizable, secure storage.

Design
The Store 'n' Go Pro is a smaller USB drive, just made for keeping in your pocket. It's not as chunky as the Corsair Flash Voyager GT (32GB, $64.99 direct, 4 stars) or the Kingston DataTravler R500 (128GB, $200 street, 3.5 stars), measuring only 0.3 by 2.5 by 0.8 inches (HWD) and weighing a scant 0.32 ounce. Unlike these drives, which combine high-capacity storage with rugged construction to physically protect your storage, this is a much slimmer drive.

The drive is made of plastic and metal, but it's not the heavy plastic seen on the Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Generation 2 (32GB, $80 street, 4 stars). The plastic shell mostly hides the metal inside, which can be seen along the sides of the drive and the lanyard loop at the back end of the drive. The USB plug retracts, requiring no cap, and a blue LED blinks and glows to tell you that the drive is on and connected.

Features and Performance
While the Store 'n' Go Pro may not offer a lot in the way of physical protection, it protects your data in a different way, with 256-bit AES hardware data encryption. Using the included V-Safe Security software, you can easily set up a password locked privacy zone, allowing you to keep most of your files accessible, while putting a lock on anything sensitive. And with Fat32 formatting, both the Store 'n' Go Pro and the V-Safe Security will work on a variety of systems: Windows (Windows 7, Vista, and XP), Mac (OS 9.0 and up), and Linux (Kernal Version 2.6.x and up).

Available at retail for $117, the 64GB Store 'n' Go Pro offers storage at $1.83 per gigabyte. By comparison, the rubber-armored 32GB Corsair Flash Voyager GT sells for $2.03 per GB, while the chunky Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Generation 2 (32GB) sells for $2.35/GB. For similar security?at a much smaller capacity?the 8GB Kingston DataTraveler Locker+ sells for $14, or roughly $1.75 per GB. Unlike these other drives, which each come with a 5-year warranty, Verbatim covers the Store 'n' Go Pro with a lifetime warranty.

While Verbatim claims read speeds of up to 30 MBps and write speeds of up to 12 MBps, it didn't quite hit those speeds during testing. In our timed file transfer test, the Store 'n' Go Pro managed to match the claimed write speed (12 MBps) but didn't deliver on read speed, clocking at 22 MBps. By comparison, the Kingston DataTraveler Locker+ (8GB) was a tad slower, with data transfer rates of 24 MBps (read) and 10 MBps (write), while the high capacity Kingston DataTraveler R500 produced faster speeds of 30 MBps (read) and 21 MBps (write). For faster performance, try a drive with USB 3.0, like the Corsair Flash Voyager GT, which delivered write speeds of 36.7 MBps and read speeds of 95.6 MBps.

While other drives may offer more rugged construction or a cheaper price point, the 64GB Verbatim Store 'n' Go Pro offers a compelling blend of storage capacity with easy to use security, letting you lock only what's private behind encryption and a password, leaving the rest freely accessible. If the 8GB offered by the Editors' Choice Kingston DataTraveler Locker+ isn't enough, you can be confident grabbing the Verbatim Store 'n' Go Pro.

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