Michael A. Terrell wrote:

What is the advantage of these drives over, say, a 32 GB jump drive at
$70 (this week at Office Depot)? Speed? If so, how great is that
advantage in practice?


They replace the hard drive in a computer. Someone was asking about
small hard drives for machine tools. Spinning storage with an IDE/PATA
interface is disappearing from the market. What good is a jump drive on
something with no USB port?

We have that problem at work. Our newer Mitsubishi LASER CNC control
runs on Win95. The only network option is a PCMCIA reader and LAN card
in the reader. We installed the hardware and got the control to
recognize a laptop running Win2KPro, and vice versa, but so far, we
haven't gotten drive access to allow us to transfer files back and forth.

David