USB Memory 'stick' recommendation

[Fraser Campbell]

On Wednesday 01 October 2003 23:14, Madison Kelly wrote:

> Well, I don't really want to sound like I am overly endorsing Apacer
> because I really don't think it is overly a quality device. With that
> preamble, I never had problems mounting it under RH7.3 on several
> machines.

An alternative is compact flash.  Compact flash USB readers can be had for 
$20, my 128 compact flash card cost $60.  So for $80 I have 128MB of portable 
storage, those costs should be lower now.  Compact flash cards can be used 
with digital cameras, with a $40 adaptor you can treat them as a regular IDE 
hard drive (not that you'd want to use it for a lot of writes) ... my compact 
flash card is now hosting my firewall (LEAF).  CF cards can also be up to 4GB 
now I think.

One obvious disadvantage of CF is that the USB readers are bulkier than the 
pen drives.

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