14 DAY TRIAL // Reducing flash drives to tiny sizes has been turned into something of an art form on the portable storage market, and PNY has decided to become one of the most skillful artists in this.
Case in point, the company has introduced the Micro M2 USB flash drive. Not to be confused with M.2 SSDs that alternate between leaving the world in stunned awe or halfway between teased and disappointed.
The new flash drive from PNY is as small as a coin, with a height of just 18 mm / 0.70 inches and a weight of 1.8 grams / 0.06 oz.
Yet despite that, it can pack up to 64 GB of storage space. Basically, PNY took the principles that make it possible to have 64 GB microSD memory cards and applied them to a flash drive, which use the same type of NAND Flash storage technology as them.
There are lower-capacity drives though, of down to as little as 4 GB. In all situations, however, the writing speed hovers around 10 MB/s and the read speed is of up to 32 MB/s (USB 2.0 performance).
The PNY Micro M2 flash drive ships in a metallic case that is scratch and dust-resistant. The matter finish makes fingerprints less likely to be left behind as well. Finally, a small hole allows you to easy hang the thing off a lanyard or key chain.
PNY's Micro M2 flash drive ships with a 5-year warranty and is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8, plus Max OS 10.2 and above operating systems. Alas, the price was not provided.
