Wow, de ja vu all over again. I bet we could save everybody a lot of time and effort just by playing the exchanges on this topic on the Real Iomega thread and the SanDisk thread from about a year and a half ago. Nothing has changed at all, except the Iomega product is now a reality. The Iomega product is still about 1/10 the cost of flash memory, after you buy the drive, as it was predicted to be then (flash has gone down in price about 50%, and the Clik! disk is going for the price originally proposed, but its capacity has doubled), there are wild statements about flash becoming really cheap fast, but the guys still can't do the math (down 50% in 18 months (Moore's Law) means a bit over 3 years before a tenfold reduction occurs), the same tired cry about battery life (from the same tired soul, no less). The only thing that is missing is the claim that flash memory is so much faster, I guess because somebody actually looked at the specs on the SanDisk site and found access times about the same as a spinning hard disk.
Give it a rest, folks, or at least look at what has already been said and come up with some new drivel.
Cameron
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