A flash drive is a simple way to store data for moving between computers but if you add one other technology to it, it becomes a way to “see” the data you are using. Though a few years old the Lexar drive has a feature most others don’t have a capacity meter. At first, it might not sound very interesting. But being able to see how much data is on a drive is helpful for someone with so many USB drives.
It might seem weird to think about how a capacity of a drive could even be shown without power but that is where e ink displays come in handy. As they only require power for changing the current display image. So when you plug in the drive it changes the capacity display readout then after you eject the drive it will stay like it was even without power.
The drive also comes with some encryption software and it is always a good idea to encrypt flash drives. But it’s not required, and the fat32 formated drive will be compatible with just about every computer. I have tried formating it to other filesystem types and for the display to work the drive will need to be fat32 or NTFS for windows.
If nothing else its a fun to have something different from all those basic flash drives.
