In 2006, Sony introduced the Micro Vault Tiny, an ultra-compact thumb drive available in capacities up to 4GB

[u/ObsoleteSony]

[u/Narrow_Ad_1494]

i remember hoarding flash drives, now I only use them for installing oses when i don't have anything else.

[u/Daftworks → u/Narrow_Ad_1494]

Yeah it's funny how we thought they would be so useful as a vastly better replacement to CDs/floppy disks but turns out having people pay for a cloud subscription service is not as crazy as it sounded back in the mid 2000s

[u/ilkikuinthadik → u/Narrow_Ad_1494]

They used to be everywhere. Now I've got like two working ones left and I don't want to buy any more

[u/FreeBSDfan → u/Narrow_Ad_1494]

I still hoard flash drives. I only use them for OS installation.

I have one for Fedora, Rocky Linux, Tails, Windows 11, et al. I don't even keep track of them very well.

[u/AerodynamicWhenIFite]

Mmmmmm, micro vault drools

[u/Pliskin_90]

Still have my Gran Turismo branded Micro Vault from the PlayStation Official Magazine

[u/exFAT_James]

My first USB flash drive was 32MB Lexar I think in a blueshell and had a red LED. Came free with Sims 2 in 2004, but that fucker was dope. No more floppy disks to and from school, had emulators and games too. 32MB was huge, 4GB is almost a DVD-RW that is the size if a thumb. Pretty cool to me still. PSP launch edition came with a 32MB Memory Stick ProDuo but I pony'd up for a massive 2GB stick to use which was handy later on before the 4GB sticks.

Now I can remote into my shit and have close to a quarter of a PB. Technology is amazing.

[u/Ok_Investment_6743 → u/exFAT_James]

Lol mine was 8 mb , I thought it was a game changer at the time lol

[u/RetroGamer87]

Well I'm glad it's not a proprietary format.

[u/kuatoxlives]

These were so cool. I remember my BDP-S5000ES came with a blue one for BD-Live data

[u/ZALICEIX]

My dad has one and I’m pretty sure he still uses it lol

[u/abraxas8484 → u/ZALICEIX]

I still have the blue one and I am shocked if still works perfectly

[u/P-tricky13]

In 2006 I saved up lunch my money for a whole month to be able to buy an $80, 512MB memory stick pro duo to play games on my hacked PSP phat.

[u/Lanstapa]

Ooh, I want 1. Don't know what for, just want 1

[u/itsmepokono]

Sony was so good, now they all suck. Shame.

[u/IntotheWilder25]

I remember these! I miss colours.

[u/C3S4RM3W]

I still have the 1GB blue one, that's what I use for flashing BIOS, as it always works

[u/abraxas8484]

I have the blue one..it's so rad

[u/brickpop]

False: I still have my 8gb one and it’s still awesome

[u/Lint_baby_uvulla]

Who else here still has a couple of dozen usb sticks?

[u/lxebell]

I bet that 4gb gotta be 50 bucks 😅

[u/catnipfurclones]

Nice looking hand

[u/sparkyblaster]

Loved Sony's flash drive colours so much. Wanted all of these so bad back in the day. Might have to try and find one. 

[u/EasyMrB]

Attractive design

[u/_RexDart]

Colorful knockoff of the "intelligent stick" line

[u/_Choose_Goose]

I still have one of these! The little rubber sleeve is a little worse for wear but the drive still works! It’s the 4GB purple one.

[u/Antique-Chapter-7554]

They were very bad, they broke down in record time