Designed for netbook or notebook users, the high-performance Lexar Echo MX is an easily accessible, ultra-portable backup drive that provides secure, no-touch automatic backups in convenient, reliable flash-based design. Built-in Lexar Echo backup software activates as soon as it's plugged in, to securely and automatically protect files with 128-bit AES encryption. Available from8GB to 128GB, the drive's higher capacities offer higher performance - with speeds up to 30MB/s read and 17MB/s write.* It also sports an easy-to-read, always-on capacity meter that displays available backup space, even when disconnected from your laptop - for ultimate convenience. Compatible with both PC and Mac systems. Five-year limited warranty.
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
I've had this USB drive for 2 weeks so far, and it has performed perfectly. I have about 34,000 files I store on it, which totals about 55 gb at this point in time. I expect to gradually increase the files to perhaps 80 gb over the next year or so, and I will use a second 128 gb drive as insurance in case either one should fail. I've used the 64 gb Lexars before this, and they worked well too. The speed of these drives is good reading (on Windows XP SP3), but writing averages about 4 megabytes per second long-term for ad-hoc writing. I've been criticized in the past for quoting low speeds like this, but I have 30 or more flash drives, a Dell desktop, Samsung laptop (both WinXP), a Macbook Air, and a Mac desktop, and that's really all the speed you get once you get your files backed up the first time and do incremental backups after that, writing only the files that recently changed.Note: This USB drive does not come with a cap for the USB connector.
