Buffalo Makes Industry's Smallest 16GB USB Drive Comments

At that price this is a niche product for sure.

And who cares how small it is? As long as it works, right? ;)

Once the price comes down a bit these will be good for all those Blu-Ray players that need plug in storage, as they will be un-noticable

I can imagine someone forking out £82 for this, and losing it down the back of the sofa soon after :)

Mm mm mmm. I'll take the black thank you. Actually the red's a bit vulgar, but it really doesn't matter if it's black or white.

It's not about the size. It's how you use it.

Mine's five times the size of that and I still lose it!

Lovely Michael Jackson reference there, GoldenGuy.

That would be useful in a netbook, or any laptop come to think of it, no extraneous dongles to knock or damage.

@GoldenGuy: Nice tribute there. :)

GoldenGuy, that's so unnecessary!

I completely missed the MJ call, I don't deserve to be on this forum.

@Bluepork

XD - Couldn't resist. Too soon? (Good.)

Relax haim, it's people like you that keep me from going off track too often!

In a world, where I could spend 82 quid at the drop of a hat, I would definitely get one of these. And if Apple are gonna be so unforgiving with the spacing of their ports, I wouldn't mind more companies adopting this form.

That will be perfect for my Sony CD player in my car. I could leave it plugged in all the time and still fit the face in it's case. Hopefully the 4GB or 8GB are well priced.

Not sure why anyone would get one of those in preference to the EagleTec nanoSac microSD card reader, which has been out for a while. Available from your local auction website for prices in the region of £10-15 (or at least it was).

http://eagletec.com/eshop/product_info.php?products_id=219

So this thing has double the storage space and is much smaller. Whereas the super talent is about a quarter of the price and designed as a fashion accessory... Since when did substance cost more than style?

@Hamer

1. I want it in black.
2. Didn't know it existed.
3. Cheers.

@Gavin Hamer: Not sure why anyone would get one of those in preference to the EagleTec nanoSac microSD card reader,

I suppose you need the microSD card too that will then stick out, also not sure of the speed of micro SD I assume this would be a factor too.

Did you see the price of there version of this -> $620 , So Buffalo's is a bargain.

Surely some1 somewhere must be developing a commercially viable solid state usb drive? the ultimate combination of size and performance!

@ Superfly - We'll probably have to wait for the USB 3.0 standard to settle in before we see those. USB 2.0 transfer speeds are painfully slow, even with a regular external HDD.

Sys Admins out there beware. All your data is mine...

@Keith - I've got the EagleTec nanoSac microSD card reader, it cost me £12 (in white unfortunately). I put a microSD card in (which I had spare) and it doesn't stick out because it sits flat along the USB. The speed will obviously be dependent the class of the microSD card that you put in it. Works nicely. To be fair, it's not a whole lot smaller than the ubiquitous SanDisk microSD reader.