Are there USB pen drives that are not Mac-friendly?

[Dennis S]

I was going to buy this USB thumb drive until I read the review below. Are there some that are not Mac-friendly? Does anyone have a better suggestion? I'm open to any size, depending on the price.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/custome...oding=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=172282&s=electronics&customer-reviews.start=21

Not so Mac friendly, September 7, 2005
Reviewer: Stuart B. Baum "S. Baum" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
Unlike other flash drives I have bought, this one seems buggy with the Mac and doesn't like many of the files I try to drag into it. Unsure why. It rejected some folders that had very simple names, such as 'open invoices,' but would copy all the files inside. Not useless, but enough of a bother that I would not recommend this to anyone with a Mac.

Also, the added value applications are all executables. I didn't want them anyway, but not being *able* to use them is different than not *wanting* to use them.

Unsure how hard it is to make a flash drive that's plug and play for Mac, but other drive manufacturers seemed to have mastered this trick.

[Ted King]

If you are going to be moving files only between Macs, you might consider just reformatting the USB drive using OS X's Disk Utilities. I had some peculiar stuff happening with my SanDisk Cruzer 512 (I don't recall exactly what the problems were, and didn't know what caused them) and reformatted it that way. I have had minimal problems with it since - I've had it about a year I think.

[Racer X]

I have the 512 meg version of it and it works fine for me under 10.2.8 and 10.3.9. Mine is low powered enough that it works with my USB port on my MDD keyboard.

[Carm]

512MB PNY USB Flash Drive $9.94
http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/69557/70162

Carm

[particleman]

I have a Cruzer Mini 256 and when I use it on my Mac I am forced to do a shutdown via the power button. The Finder becomes nonresponsive.

I just reformatted the item on my XP box at work and will retest the thumb drive tonight on my Mac.