USB Flash Memory suggestions

[James Knott]

Henry Spencer wrote:

> There are about three flash formats which make sense:
> 
> + USB keys, because every modern computer has USB ports (no adapters 
> needed), and they're so popular that they're cheap and roomy.
> 
> + Compact Flash cards, the clear winner (last I looked) on capacity and
> price.  They *own* the high-end camera market and feature prominently in a
> lot of other areas too. 
> 
> + SD (Secure Digital) cards, rather smaller than CF and very popular in
> miniature devices like PDAs, where it's awkward to make room for a CF slot.
> 
> The assorted other flash-card formats are all also-rans, to my thinking. 
> Avoid locking yourself in by buying devices which use them.

One useful accessory, is a multiformat card reader, that can handle
several flash storage formats.  They're quite cheap these days.  I
recently bought one from TigerDirect, that handles 12 different formans,
including PCMCIA microdrives, though some formats require an adapter.

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