SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus

The SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus (4GB) has several features that should appeal to business travelers: AES hardware encryption, the ability to run applications, password protection, and 4GB of online backup. Add in a durable design, and you have an all-around champ—if you’re willing to pay more per GB. Design and Features The Cruzer Titanium Plus isn’t the most attractive flash drive, but it felt sturdy, and we appreciated its slide-out USB connector and included lanyard, which helps keep it from getting lost. Once we plugged the Cruzer Titanium Plus into our notebook, we began to appreciate its true value: We were prompted to create an online account, which then automatically backed up the 1GB of mixed data on the drive courtesy of the BeInSync data backup service. Users get 4GB of free online storage for six months; after that it costs $29.99 per year, which is an offer exclusive to the Cruzer Titanium Plus. This is a technological godsend because if you accidentally delete a file from the drive, you can recover it from the online storage. The USB stick will back up new files as well as changes made to pre-existing files.