Ah, just as long as you keep counting them you should be able to store more and more files!

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I can see the future: hills and hills of FlashDisc piling up alongside mountains of floppy disks.

Why not just e-mail the files, encrypted or otherwise.

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Brother you hit the nail on the head. If the file is that small, just attach and send it FOR FREE

The only use that I can think of for such a small capacity drivce:

If you had to send a file (<16MB) to somewhere that broadband is anavailable (yes there are places like that), AND where CD-Rs would be scrutinized very heavily by customs agents (for pornography of course). You could slip one of these things in to some gift-looking product that also has other plastic tags on them (like a bundle of socks for grandpa back home).

I agree with many on here that right now this is not that great of a product BUT is a good idea. CD's are becoming long in the tooth. They take up space and time to burn. I don't use CD-RW's due to the time and cost factor of CD-R's. It is just cheaper and easier to burn a new CD-R but part of me cringes at throwing away so much wasted storage when I only burn 50-100MB.

The problem with these flash drives are the space. In a year or so, we might start seeing larger sizes 256/512/1GB?? for the same price and quantity. At that point it does become much better than a CD. Quicker time to final goal of getting everything portable, smaller size and only slightly more expensive. While this is "dispossable" it is less dispossable than CDs making the product more environmentally friendly. Now, I just toss a CD out after I get the files off it. I would re-use one of these flash drives.

I hope prices drop and Memorex keeps improving the product. They are on the right track, it will just take a while.

<edit> I should have made it clear, that although prices will certainly drop for other flash companies, the key here is selling multiple units for a cheap price. I would buy 3 of these if they were 100MB each. At that point they become comparable to what I normally burn on a CD. I may not ship them off but would work great for around the office.