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To: Bruno Cipolla who wrote (25768)	5/4/2004 1:18:36 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Archival Flash Storage Someone on the digital photography site posted this article... news.independent.co.uk An informed IT patient of mine thinks this is overblown, although there are theoretical risks. Given the latest news on the new Titanium USB drive, I wonder if we will see archival flash USB storage that is intelligent. Imagine a USB product of several gigabyte capacity that could serve as a vault for images and when connected to a PC would be refreshed automatically. I would be interested in such a device. On it I would not store a complete digital photo library, but perhaps several hundred or several thousand of my favorite photos. I would use this in addition to CD or DVD media. Just a thought. Seems like the USB drives are becoming more intelligent. biz.yahoo.com SanDisk also expanding on free software content delivered on the flash product as I thought might happen several years ago. Now they just need a killer software app. Aus