I think it's normal for these thumb drives to show less space than they say they have. The player I use for audible.com, which is basically just a memory stick, is supposed to be 128 ram, but in reality it only has about 124. My guess is that it has to use some of that memory to operate in some way.
Sherry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Aldrich Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 9:58 AM To: braillenote List Subject: [Braillenote] flash cards, thumb drives etc Hello list. Yesterday I went to Costco and purchased two SanDisk CruzerLock 2 Thumb Drives. The BN M-power tells me I have 954.16 MB free, disk size is 976.13 MB for what it is worth to anyone. I did put some audio files on it and it appears I only scratched the surface (grin smile)! I'm told this is suppose to be a one gig thumb drive. I'm not complaining! My two very small 31 meg flash cards show up as either 30.43 MB or 30.47 MB. My 128 meg card is showing up as 122 mb or so disk space so may need to reformat it one of these days on a PC. Not certain if I formatted that one with the M20 or what happened for sure! Just something more to add to the discussion! The Thumb drive worked right out of the blister pack (yuck for blister packs)! It came with a long rist strap or something that looks like one. It has little caps which fit over the ends to protect the USB plug I guess. When I plug it into the M-power, the unit speaks hard disk ready. When I take the drive out, the M-power voices hard disk removed. I'll probably read or listen to some files from this drive but I think it will be used mainly as a transfer drive. It was 20 dollars cheaper than a 1 gig compact flash card. I tried a half gig thumb drive which belonged to a friend and that worked well. It too was Sandisk. I'd say SanDisk is a safe bet for those kind of drives. I have had problems with one of my ambicom network cards so I'll see how the Sandisk Wy fi card works. This should be interesting! Take care all! Jim Aldrich ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
