[Leaplist] Is this a good deal for USB sticks?

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 08 March 2007 15:54, pberry2 at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> Costco has four 512Mb Dane USB sticks, of Red, Blue, Black, Silver,  for
> $34.99.
> Is that a 'good' deal?  Package only states that they are good for
> 2000/Me and Mac 9.x.

I don't think so, and I'll tell you why.

$34.99 for one 2 gig would, IMHO, be a much better deal. You can actually get 
a Linux distro on a 2 gig. you can use a 2 gig to back up some pretty 
substantial stuff. But when you split the 2 gig into 4 512 megs, you might 
have the same amount of space, but it's a whole lot less convenient and 
flexible.

The one place where 4x512 might be good is if you have 4 kids, or 1 kid who 
loses them all the time.

SteveT