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

["pberry2" at cfl.rr.com]

Kyle Gonzales wrote:
> 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.
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Or, for a distro of Damn Small Linux (49Mb)?

Yep, I already have 5 USB sticks, one being a 1Gb stick, three being 
256Mb, and one being 128Mb.

Thanks for the advise, everyone.