USB 'diskettes'

May 02, 2010 51 Replies

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Jan Panteltje 16 years ago

On a sunny day (Mon, 03 May 2010 14:28:33 +0100) it happened richard wrote in :

10.04)

I have seen some market research, and it seems 8GB USB sticks are the most wanted. Those are the ones I use too, the reason is perhaps that a norma DVD fits on one :-) They are also much faster then the 4GB from the same manufacturer. I have an old 4GB USB stick with the FLASH memory backup of my eeePC too. Smaller ones are next to useless. Also have some early 32 MB memory cards for a DMP100 mp3 player.... Probably never to be used again, although that player still works fine.

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Dirk Bruere at NeoPax 16 years ago

10.04)

wanted.

No, the most wanted are 256GB :-) The most affordable are 8GB

one :-)

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Tim Williams 16 years ago

I have a 128MB CF laying around somewhere. Came with my camera. Good thing the camera supports 1GB cards. It's still CF though...

Tim

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JosephKK 16 years ago

=20

That's=20

f*ck if=20

Can you say market opportunity?

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JosephKK 16 years ago

it a >=20

Actually that is exactly what Akamai does for a living. Had been for years.

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Dirk Bruere at NeoPax 16 years ago

The only benefit with USB3 flash would be if the flash was seriously fast it could then replace a HDD and SATA

Dirk http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onetribe - Occult Talk Show

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richard 16 years ago

10.04)

wanted.

one :-)

All my code from 1973 to 1978 fitted on a 2MB RK05 - portable but only just.

While I do have the odd 4, 8 & 16GB flash drives, I find that a 320 GB 2.5" hard drive pretty adequate for my needs at the moment.

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Dirk Bruere at NeoPax 16 years ago

Until you drop it. I use a rubber coated Corsair

Dirk http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onetribe - Occult Talk Show

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Jan Panteltje 16 years ago

On a sunny day (Tue, 04 May 2010 14:05:35 +0100) it happened richard wrote in :

10.04)

wanted.

one :-)

hard drive pretty adequate for my needs at the

My 1TB Seagate USB is full... :-)

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Archimedes' Lever 16 years ago

A decent speed stick could completely replace one's "RAMdisk" or Virtual memory or what the current nom de plume is.

Then applications would have to get completely revamped to use up available RAM better as well as the new virtual areas, and what form of use (what code goes where) could be developed to optimize it.

We could just bypass PCI altogether and hang USB 3 sticks all around the CPU. Hell, we could even get rid of conventional RAM.

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