Best USB Flash Storage?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday July 30, 2003 @11:35AM from the portable-bootable-and- >3-meg-capacity dept.

Jennifer asks: "I'm thinking of making the plunge and buying some sort of USB flashdisk. I just migrated to a laptop without a floppy, and want some sort of quick and easy medium, preferably bootable, for moving files around. My idea solution would be a SDcard reader that is small, bootable, Hi-Speed USB and sleek/sexy. SD based means I could have a number of cards ready to go, such as a linux card, a Win98 card, maybe even a Win2k card if I could pare the install down to 256MB, plus other stuff, including compatibility with my Palm. Is booting purely BIOS dependent? What have your experiences been with these things?"

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best density: smart media by aminorex · 2003-07-30 19:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If you are so keen to have physically small storage
media that you can't tolerate a micro-CD, then SD is
probably too bg for you too. I commend smart media
flash cards. They don't threaten you with potentially
crippling DRM bits, and they are cheaper than MMC
or CF (or at least, the last time I looked, the best sale
prices were on Smart Media cards).

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