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Best USB Flash Storage?

Posted by Cliff on 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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  1. Re:SD doesn't hold as much as MMC! by Aluvus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    SD and MMC are cross-compatible. And, indeed, SD comes in far larger sizes. I have a 128MB card right now.

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