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Article #5Re: PC / Mac / Linux - Portable Universal Storage Device
From: James Knott
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:16
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:16
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DarkMatter wrote: > Pretty lame. I have a six way memory device reader that has a 20GB > hard drive in it. Plug it in, and seven new devices appear in your > file explorer. One button copy from any source, one button paste to a > PC or laptop. Self powered internal rechargeable battery. > > The price on yer shit is even more lame. My device was less than > $250 US. > The device described is not a hard drive. It's a memory device, which has no moving parts and is considerably smaller than any hard drive. FWIW, I can easily put together a package, that contains any size hard drive, in a portable enclosure, that attaches to a USB port for a price similar to yours. A guesstimate would be about $200 CDN for 60 GB. However, it still wouldn't be one of those "pen drives". -- Fundamentalism is fundamentally wrong. To reply to this message, replace everything to the left of "@" with james.knott.
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