HP V250W 32GB USB Flash Memory Honest Review

The USB flash memory is one of the most useful electronics gadgets in this world. The people are just going away from the CD and DVD disk and change their complete focus to flash memory devices. In my research and survey, founded the Indian market is best suits for flash memory and mobile sales, because people are rushing to Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeals to find low price flash memory (also called pen drive) devices. Here I am going give hands-on review of HP V250 W 32 GB, which is one the excellent, compact and portable pen drive available mainly in the Indian market. It will definitely worth for your money.

  
Key Features:- Compact and sturdy design; 32 Gb storage space; USB 2.0 type; Metallic casing; Support Windows, Mac and Linux Operating systems; Portable keychain design; Plug and play functionality

The Pros

• Ultra slim design
• Decent performance
• Low budget pen drive
• Highly portable

The Cons

• No Usb 3.0 available
• No LED indications
• 29 GB only for storage in 32 GB device

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Let us see the honest review of HP V250W USB flash memory in very detailed manner.

What is HP V250W Pen drive?

The HP V250W is a metallic bodied pen drive with compact and lightweight design. The performance is simply amazing, as compared with Sandisk Cruzer Blade and Sandisk Cruzer Force. It’s manufactured by HP, which is a famous electronics brand; creates high performing computers, laptops, printers, scanners and storage gadgets. It released on July 2013 and has good rating in India. The build and design quality are excellent. It have better read and write speed than other famous pen drive manufactures such as SanDisk, Kingston, Transcend etc. The available storage sizes of V250W model are 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32 GB. There is no color available other than sliver.

Our Recommendations:-

Both for Home and professional users

HP V250W Review: Design&Build (9.5/10)

In terms of design, HP V250W has slim design constructed using stainless steel metal casing enables the high durability. The complete casing is covered with this metal and has sliver colored glossy finish. The metallic covering also protects it from wear and tear problems. The pen drive sizes around 46.6 mm in length, 15.8 mm in width and has 5 mm thickness. You could call it as ultra slim pen drive, due to only 5mm thick. It is lightweight flash memory, weighs around 11.5g only.

The metallic karabiner design, at the top end of the HP V250W provide easy carrying with you by strapping on your pocket or use it as your bikes keychain or handbags clip etc. Because of smaller size, it will easy to lose from your hand or pocket. But the flexible hook design secure it by providing the provision of strapping or clipping.



The USB 2.0 insert portion edges are straight metal body, which can be easily insert in to and out with less tightness. If you are beginner, you could not feel any difficulty to insert it into the USB port without damaging the port.

Tip!: If you feel tightness, while inserting pen drive into the USB port, then press it gently. Otherwise, it damages the USB port.

The build quality of HP V250W is excellent and manufactured well as compared to other usb flash drives. The strength of pen drive body is high as compared with plastic bodied pen drives of Verbatim, SanDisk etc. It drops from a 0.75 meter height from my table and results no problem, works fine. Overall, the metallic bodied, ultra compact and slim design with karabiner provides high portability and strength. The only con found is that no LED light indications for knowing the transferring process.

HP V250W Review: Performance (9.3/10)

The HP V250W pen drive is made of USB 2.0 version, which  can provide satisfactory transferring speed as compared with Sandisk Cruzer blade, Verbatim Store ‘n’ Go and Sandisk Cruzer Force. It uses plug and play functionality. So, you just need to connect it with your USB port, it will automatically install within microseconds and ready for use. The HP offers read speed of 25 MB/s and write speed of 8 MB/s for the 8GB to 32GB storage pen drives. I got a read speed around maximum of 26 MB/s and average speed of 20 MB/s in my Dell XPS 15 Laptop. I also tested with Lenovo S20-30 notebook, shows the average read speed of 22 MB/s, while transferring 1 GB data to the notebook.

While writing 10 GB data to V250W flash drive from my notebook, shows around 3 MB/s in average speed. The write speed is depends on many factors your RAM memory, processor speed, USB port type and transferring data size and type. I also tested the write speed with my dell XPS 15, by using a 10 GB same data and got around 5 MB/s in average (Only copying process).

Tip!: If you are try to copy bigger files to flash memory, it is better to free your RAM memory by closing high load applications.

People know about the USB 2.0 ports capability and speed characteristics. It is very less expensive as compared with USB 3.0 series. Therefore, these pen drives are very low in cost and provide better service for the money.

HP V250W Review: Storage (9/10)

In this review, we choose to review 32GB storage space one that I already have. It specifies the 32 GB size, but only 29 GB is free for storage. The 3GB is used to installation of the hp driver software. The other storage options available are 2GB, 4GB, 8GB and 16GB.

HP V250W Review: Miscellaneous (9/10)

The HP V250W is works perfectly on operating systems such as Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Mac OS 10.3 and higher versions. The plug and play software easily installed on these OS and quickly read for the storage purposes. It also works on USB devices like DVD players, modern music systems, smartphones (If you have OTG cable or converter) etc.

For this model, HP provides up to 2 year limited warranty. In pen drives, I think SanDisk provide maximum warranty period up to 5 year other than Verbatim and HP brands.

Final Words

The HP V250W has ultra slim design, light in weight, provide satisfactory read, and write speed than the SanDisk flash memory. The USB 2.0 provides enough speed for your both office and home uses. It is also a low budget pen drive, which costs around $15 dollars. As compared with SanDisk cruzer blade ($7.5)) and cruzer force ($8), price is high but better performance than the previous ones. The disadvantage found about HP V-250W is no LED indications, lack of USB 3.0 version and only 29GB space available for storage. If you are looking for USB 2.0 pendrive with decent transferring speed and build quality, HP v-250W is best suitable for you. In my opinion, it is really worth for your money. However, high-speed USB 3.0 flash drives are available in the online market. They are very expensive as compared with USB 2.0 flash memory drives.

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HP v250W Full Specifications:-

General Specs

Name	HP V250W Pen drive
Storage	32 GB; (4GB to 32 GB available)
Platform	Microsoft Windows(up to Win 8.1)/Linux/Mac (10.3 or higher)
Dimension	47 mm x 16 mm x 5 mm
Weight	14 g
USB	2.0
Speed	Write Speed : 8 MB/s; Read Speed: 18 MB/s
Warranty	2 year
Manufacturer	HP