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On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 19:10 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > On 30/04/10 18:19, John Williams wrote: > > Its a tiny USB flash drive, and they really are small, they are also > > flipping cheap in Asda. > > > > http://bit.ly/aF0En > > Aww they're sooo cute! Yeah, I got the 8GB one in Lucid purple (hehe) for Â7.50 I think it was. Its mainly to just stick in my wallet I think to keep handy. I could partition it off for 2GB linux distro and 6GB(ish) document area.. I think? > Ahh interesting, I'll have to pop over and have a look, which Adsa was it? It was the Bideford one, when I looked online it was mentioned on Hotdeals site and appears to be nationwide. > Â2.50 seems like a bargain and as you say they can be used for > installing Linux on. Yeps, and coincidently the 2GB one is a nice Ubuntu Orange, the 8GB is At A Pinch Lucid Purple.. > > I can imagine that folks might be tempted to go off with one for just a > > few pounds and at worst they have a cheap USB card and at best we would > > have a new users. > > Yep, that is true, if they were setup as persistent storage they could > be marketed as a more secure way of doing online banking etc. Yes, that thought also crossed my mind, suggest folks even if not using linux as a full time install then use it for online banking. > Yep, I'll have to have a look in Asda and maybe pick one or two up. I am rather tempted to get a couple more myself, I did a quick read test and its certainly quick enough, just short of 34MB/s. A review I saw shows it beat a bunch of other USB flash drives in my own quick tests, a different Verbatim and an HP only managed 20MB/s and 24MB/s, a Corsair did 34MB/s also. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html