14 DAY TRIAL // Flash drive units can come in many different capacities, sizes and transfer speed ratings, and some of them choose one asset and take it to the logical extreme. One might say that's what happened with the Team Group C134.
The product is about as large as a New Taiwan Dollar coin, which is really, really small. Small enough that the drive will barely stick out of a tablet's USB port.
In fact, the Team C134 is so small that it might come across as a surprise that the Micro USB interface is not used.
Despite the fact that the USB 2.0 interface technology is implemented, the drive, nonetheless, has a full-size USB connector.
Or, rather, one end also happens to play the part of a USB port. The other one has a hole where a key-chain or lanyard can go.
Those familiar with the inner workings of the flash drive industry will have probably guessed that Team Group used Chip-on-Board technology for this.
After all, without COB, it would have been impossible to make the drive so small, especially when the capacity is supposed to be of up to 32 GB.
Speaking of which, there are, or will be soon enough, 4GB, 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB versions of the Team C134 on sale. All this in a 3.4 gram package the size of an NTD $1 coin.
There should be absolutely no problem with carrying the drive inside a bag or wherever, and you could probably plug it in the port of your laptop or tablet and just forget about it.
On the other hand, that can be a problem too. With how small the thing is, it's easy to misplace it, so you'll probably want to strap it to a cord or key ring as soon as possible.
The only drawback that we can see is that this is a USB 2.0 flash drive, not 3.0, which means that the performance won't be spectacular (480 Mbps at most).