small, yet there are a few options . . .

I want to get a portable storage device, as CD's are slowly fading out, but DVDs still take to long to burn, so i was looking at either a memory stick (512MB, or 1GB) or a protable Hard Drive like the small ones just recently reviewed here.

which, in terms of price, speed of copying and transfering, and overall effectiveness would be the best to get, or are there other options to go for? Or are CD-R or CD-RW still the way to go?

thanks

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CDs offer low cost. You chould buy maybe 100CD-RW disk for the price of 1 1GB memory stick. That's over 50x the capacity for your money.

Or you could get a 100+GB hard drive and make it portable. This would be faster, costing far less than 100GB of memory sticks.

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Don't forget that the transfer speed of most USB keys is pretty low... a couple of Mb/s is normal. Unless you get an USB 2.0 key... but at old USB 1.1 PCs those will run slow.

But the same goes for external USB HDs.

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If your just transfering bits and pieces then a CDRW is your best bet.

Good capacity, reusable, reasonably fast and Dirt cheap...both for a CDRW drive and the media itself.

If you are taking documents too and from work and plan on doing lots of saves then a flash memory stick is probably the better option.
Capacity costs though.

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thank you very much all for you responses, i now have a pretty good Idea of what to do :-) (looks like a few CD-RW will be heading my way, along with a portable Hard Drive for backup purposes :-D)

thanks again

cya

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