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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Hardware News => Topic started by: CyberViking2000 on August 23, 2002, 12:15:25 AM

Title: Mini megabytes: USB flash drives
Post by: CyberViking2000 on August 23, 2002, 12:15:25 AM

These pint-sized portable drives make it a cinch to carry precious data wherever you go.

Read more about it here. (http://clickthru.online.com/Click?q=de-7tpkQMWAg-wcvoTtTK5vNHmrxElR)

Title: Re: Mini megabytes: USB flash drives
Post by: System on August 23, 2002, 05:16:49 AM

These have been out for quite a while now.  I like these things, but they are WAY too expensive!  Cheaper to buy a Compact Flash card and a USB reader.

Title: Re: Mini megabytes: USB flash drives
Post by: odin on August 23, 2002, 05:51:52 AM

Do these devices need drivers? I mean, can you just plug it into any PC (or Amiga for that matter with a Highway card) and it'll work? I can hardly believe that.

Title: Re: Mini megabytes: USB flash drives
Post by: Hattig on August 23, 2002, 08:25:14 AM

USB Storage is a requirement of a fully featured USB stack.

Hence these devices will work automatically on any OS with a fully featured USB stack: Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, AmigaOS (with stack) and presumably many others.