by Mark Gibbs

A 64GB Nerd Stick? How Much?!

Opinion

Oct 11, 20061 min

Yep, CDW has a 64GB Flash Drive, the Buslink USB Hi-Speed 64GB Flash Drive BDP2-64G-U2, available for … get this … $5,739.99! Can someone tell me why anyone would want to pay that much? That’s $89.69 per GB compared to $9.00 per GB that you’ll pay for an 8GB drive. Sure, carrying around 8 separate drives is much less convenient than a single 64GB drive but is it worth spending almost 10 times the amount to not do so?

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by Mark Gibbs

Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. His writing for Network World is widely considered to be vastly underpaid. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books about networking, information technology, and the social and political issues surrounding them. His complete bio can be found at http://gibbs.com/mgbio

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