Then I'd be open to considering it!

About 6 months. Then USB 3 comes out...

Is anyone going to spend £600 on a ageing USB2 device at this late stage in its life?

...but the main problem is the p1sspoor speed of teh DataTraveler. What, it takes 2 1/2 hours just to read the whole thing and way more to write it?! Kingston must have used a stack of flash chips and one advantage this would allow is to use multichannel architecture. They probably used a dual channel architecture (not the best) but it's simply inadequate. It's like having a DVD but only being able to read it at CD data transfer speeds.
It has some uses but far from perfect.
Close but no cigar!

the other day at the jumble sale, only that one was fashioned to look like a Britannia Metal teapot. I reckon the Blue Peter kitsch set would fancy knack-knacks on The Antiques Roadshow, but I'd prefer a more stylish Q Must get them in the stores for Christmas.

Why lolly Gaagle About, perfect Unit for 1 Oz Overnight Mail Crowd W/ Internationale' ins.

Fits Into Jock Like Strap & wiggles about Oui La La. It might be good for something, yet Who Cares?

Ordered Case & Nieghbors Cactus Stole IT. OMG. Ate IT, Thats' Dry. Lucky ME.

O.K.ebay sell 'em for .59 Cents.
drashek

USB pendrives always get lost, nicked, stamped on, washed with your jeans, etc usually within a year.

£600 is too much for a throwaway item. A 2.5" slim external HDD is a much more cost effective solution.

"The VOB files on DVDs are deliberately split into 1Gb chunks to avoid problems with file size."

True, but the author said image, like an .ISO file.

Anyway, I'd rather go for a 250Gb 2.5" USB HDD for around the £50 mark.

You say it is FAT32 and therefore cannot hold a copy of a DVD. Yes it can. The VOB files on DVDs are deliberately split into 1Gb chunks to avoid problems with file size. I cannot comment on Blueray disks though.

"Curiously enough, the drive arrived formatted in just FAT32"

Not really curious - it's the "lowest common denominator" format, so will work out-of-the-box with any OS. Pretty much a no-brainer decision for any vendor...

On the other hand, what I find curious is the article author didn't realise this for themselves...

May be aimed at people who have netbooks, but I would personally rather buy a hard drive upgrade or buy 2 new netbooks for the price of this!

256GB, thats bigger than the hard drive on my webbook (80GB), but costs more than my webbook all together... still none the less. i would soo love this... its my birthday coming up people, any1 wana buy me this? please ☺

How come the Bartender's Report gives 8/10, but there's only seven full glasses?