M-systems seems to be on the same line of judgement by announcing it’s product. Since Microsoft is trying to find a market for a gadget too big to be called a PDA and slightly smaller than a PC. M-Systems probably thought “Hey, we should also try to find some room in the market between a floppy and a flash drive.”
So what is flashdisc? Basically it’s a cheap, low capacity, flash drive for customers that need something with a bit more memory than a floppy, but not as expensive as a flash disk (Does anyone find flash disks expensive by the way? I don’t…).
These will come in two sizes: 16mb and 32mb. The price however is still TBA, but unless they sell them really cheap I don’t see how these can actually find room in the market. And even so, I still have my doubts due to it’s exaggerated size.
Sitting at work looking at the USB on the fron of my Optiplex GX270, which is a fairly common corporate issue PC. There is no way this thing would plug into the ports inside my IO port door. Good idea but too bulky.
You definitely couldn’t plug two in side by side, which is unfortunate. But I think they are on to the right idea, flash drives as they are now are not a floppy replacement. They make great personal storage, but at current prices you aren’t likely to copy something on to five flash drives and give them out to your friends/coworkers like you could with floppies. 8MB or 16MB gum stick USB sticks produced very cheaply sound like a better solution.
I dont think these will catch on… In the times of cloud storage, email and file hosting sites, who would want these? And if u want to give something to ur friends/coworkers, u have dvds and cds.