Conclusion
As the ratio between price and capacity (price per MB) has been decreasing tremendously over the years, many people tend to forget that hard drives and recordable CDs are not always suitable for all applications and situations. This is exactly the niche that Pockey and the ThumbDrive want to target.
Furthermore, any computer that you buy today will have at least one USB port, whether it's a notebook, desktop or server system. In addition, the new USB 2.0 will still function with USB-1 devices because the standard is based on the same connectors (and cables). Porting this standard to other operating systems should only be a matter of time, since USB also works with most types of Linux and BeOS. Even connectivity with Macs could easily be achieved.
Trek's ThumbDrive is one of the smartest mobile storage systems available today, provided that you can live with a maximum capacity of 256 MB. This little device is as big as a key, so you can take it with you everywhere, storing it in your pocket or even in a box of cigarettes, just in case you want to hide it. Compare this to a CD or a hard drive - usually it's quite difficult to take a CD or a hard drive with you without anybody noticing, while it is easy to do with a ThumbDrive.
The Pockey is a much better choice if you have to move larger amounts of data. The our sample had a 6 GB capacity; as you can imagine, this can also be easily upgraded merely by exchanging the hard drive. You just can't expect this type of flexibility from a Flash solution. On the other hand, due to the mechanics of a hard drive (a rotating disk that is accessed by read and write heads), the Pockey will always remain sensitive to physical shocks.
