Hi Janet, take a look at this page: Solid State Disk Buyers Guide - April 2006 - article on STORAGE= ...article:- Charting the Rise of the Solid State Disk Market ... have a= reliable operating life which is typically 3 times as high as that of a= hard drive. ... www.storagesearch.com/ssd-buyers-guide.html Yes you can get one to backup 250 gig but you will need a armoured truck to carry enough cash to pay for it<G> 4 gig are the most common large capacity flash drives. 1 or 2 gig the mest economical. I use an 80 gig USB2 21/2 laptop drive to backup on OS and burn everything else to CD/DVD. I use a 180 gig USB2 hard drive to backup 4 computers. Mike ******* Mike's REPLY SEPARATOR ********* On 7/31/2006 at 10:44 PM Janet wrote: Thank you for responding. What is the maximum capacity of them and how is it that technicians use them when formatting is necessary. Is it a hope of saving something, if not all and if so how much can they save? Janet ----- Original Message -----=3D20 From: "Andrew G." <asgillean@xxxxxxxxxx> > If by 'Memory Stick' you mean Thumbdrive aka USBdrive then I think =3D you're > out of luck. > The largest I've seen are in the 4 Gb range. > I wish you luck in your search. > Andy -- -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ http://www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/