To make things interesting and productive, it’s not a matter of drag-and-drop as a way to backup data anymore. SanDisk’s customized backup utility works like a charm. You can backup your browser settings, standard data and e-mail. Based on the configuration, you can manually click to synchronize data whenever you connect the drive, or it will automatically synchronize it for you. However, you will have to manually add the folders that you would like to synchronize, which can be a pain if you don’t want to backup the entire folder. In that case, we recommend you move your most commonly used files to My Documents or another folder to make it easy on yourself. The e-mail functionality is also impressive. You can send/receive messages directly on the drive with custom settings and later synchronize them with your PC. It’s also important to remember that although you can natively install as many applications as you would like on the drive, you are limited to 2GB of storage (the highest capacity of the Cruzer Titanium), and you must allocate enough space for backing up your critical files.

Not too long ago, we evaluated OCZ’s 1GB Mini-Kart drive and the results were in favor of the SanDisk Cruzer Titanium majority of the way through. Although we suspect storage size differences for performance disparity between the two to an extent, the results should give you a glimpse of what you can expect from the Cruzer.