Conclusion
For any geek serious about his craft, a bootable pen drive is essential equipment. With the bigger capacity devices you can have stuff on them like ReactOS, complete Linux distros that aren't as limited as St. Petersburg, the installers for tools like ERD Commander and collections of drivers and tools that are too useful to waste on a clumsy CD.The 32MB Bar isn't going back, unless they send me a 256MB version, perfect for all the extra things I'd like a bootable USB key to do.
I can't really say more than that. It's not a removable storage device. It's bootable system recovery nirvana. Christ, with the Bars, you can create things like routers and firewalls with no fans or other moving parts, using VIA's EPIA platform.
Of course you can still get unlucky and find systems that can't boot a USB-ZIP device, but those are few and far between these days.
Highly recommended if you don't have one already. Let the USB-PenDrive.co.uk guys hook you up if you need one, they seem friendly and prices are pretty good.
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Bootable on almost all recent systemsNo moving parts
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