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

[Kyle Gonzales]

On 3/8/07, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 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.

Unless you are wanting to get a bunch of USB storage keys to use for
GPG keys, encryption hashes, and other certificates.  That might be
useful then.