[RndTbl] isostick - the optical drive in a usb stick

Adam Thompson athompso at athompso.net
Fri Jul 29 12:12:28 CDT 2011


Convenience & weight.  I don’t want to carry even a 2.5” HDD-based device with me when travelling, if I can avoid it.  The Zalman device needs more power than many USB ports will happily provide.  And an external CD-ROM drive means (usually) dual cables, an bringing a bunch of blank CDs with me, and the time it takes to burn them, and… etc.

 

For my purposes, the 16Gb stick is *more* than worth the $185 it’ll cost to get it to Canada.

 

-Adam Thompson

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From: roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca] On Behalf Of Kevin McGregor
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 12:07
To: athompso at athompso.net; Continuation of Round Table discussion
Subject: Re: [RndTbl] isostick - the optical drive in a usb stick

 

Nice idea, but... $125 for a 8 GB device?

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Adam Thompson <athompso at athompso.net> wrote:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elegantinvention/isostick-the-optical-drive-in-a-usb-stick

 

The concept is definitely viable, since Sandisk did something very similar in their Cruzer line of products, except you can’t update the contents of the fake CD-ROM drive yourself on a Cruzer.

 

I’m buying one!

 

 

-Adam Thompson

athompso at athompso.net

(204) 291-7950 <tel:%28204%29%20291-7950>  - direct

(204) 489-6515 <tel:%28204%29%20489-6515>  - fax

 


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