Laurie Solomon wrote: > From my perspective, the small 536 MB one would not be sufficiently large > enough to be a reasonable alternative to hard drives in terms of > cost-benefits; those that are 1.5 GB and larger do show some promise. How > many makes and models over 1.5 GB are on the market? They do not appear, at > present, to be advertised in the places that I see on a regular basis. ======================= I have not been checking on availability and sizes but it sounds very promising to use a larger one as a swap disk. I also expect their sizes to grow as RAM prices gets lower. I do not know why they are so poorly advertised in the common channels. Bertho - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.