Comments on: Are There Too Many Cute USB Drives?

By: Diatryma

Diatryma — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:48:53 +0000

I like mine to be identifiable– I will use paint if necessary. But really, cheap storage wins.

Matthew, I’ve had friends go to conferences where, instead of paper programs with abstracts, they got flash drives with a PDF version.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:33:41 +0000

If my memory of credit card-sized 4-function calculators is any guide, there will soon be more, but they’ll be free and pre-loaded with some company’s marketing campaign. Maybe someday they’ll be cheap enough that we’ll all be buying a case of personalized USB keychains to send out our resume or first novel. That’d suit me just fine; I think it will be a long time before I start looking down on a gigabyte as not enough space for free.

By: Pat Cadigan

Pat Cadigan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:10:22 +0000

There aren’t enough cute USB drives. We need more. OK, I need more. With greater capacities.

By: Mary Dell

Mary Dell — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:54:12 +0000

They all suck, because they’re so small, although I enjoy the cuteness. But if I want kawaii thingies that don’t hold any useful data I can just buy more re-ment.

I’d like a cute 1TB USB drive.

By: Lori S.

Lori S. — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:36:19 +0000

Reject the binary. You’re cranky and you’re right (but, hey, *I’m* middle-aged). A small USB drive has its uses (like, um, backing up my writing folder…), but they are totally the new keychain toy of this millennium, and there are sooo many of them that are clearly trading off of “I’m cute! So I can be overpriced and undersized! Hooray for capitalism!”

It would certainly be handy if I could have cute *and* high-capacity. And with a keychain ring :) On the cap end and not the drive end, please, so that I don’t have to plug my entire set of house keys into the back of my computer when I’m doing backups.

By: Nina

Nina — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:17:03 +0000

THAT IS SUPER ADORABLE. I definitely agree, though, that adorableness diminishes quite quickly without useful features.