USB memory keys are wonderful inventions. Anything that can said to have finally given the floppy disc
the big push into the history books where it belongs is alright in my book. They’re just so handy. You just pop them into any USB slot on your computer and assuming it’s running a decent operating system, it’ll be recognised as a drive letter and you can just drag and drop your files onto it. You don’t even have to reboot, though sometimes Windows will say it needs to anyway, even though it actually doesn’t. It’s a bit odd that, and I’ve never quite worked it out, so we’ll move swiftly on.
When they first appeared USB keys were expensive and limited in size. My first one ever was 16MB and the 256MB one I bought about three years ago cost me 50 quid. You can get a 1GB stick for that now and 2GB for as little as £70.
However, sometimes you just need more. With the lowest capacity of the two drives tested here, you've still got more storage than a DVD in your pocket and that's cool.
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Dec 2, 2005, 04:53 AM
