>Jos,
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>The speed will be OK. What you need to check is the number of writes this thing can handle. I've seen specs as low as 100,000 writes which can be chomped through by a database app very quickly.
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>Juse one other issue: why do you want this one in particular? I'd bet $$$ that this thin thing is like other thin electronic devices: you sit on it, game over. ;-) I use standard USB2 flash drives- cheap as chips, replace 'em every 6 months. I don't know about price in SA but price in NZ is about 35 Euros.

John and Thomas,

I have bought one and run our app from it and it works just great. Performance is very decent and will achieve the desired effect which is to show-off the ability for our app to run without any installation, from any PC or laptop with a USB port, without any special hardware or installation routines, and without modifying the users environment. Gotta love VFP :)

The reason we are looking at this particular flash drive is its flashiness (pardon the pun). We are going to buy 20+ of these cards, copy our application and 1.5Gb database onto them, and brand the card with our company logo. When we do a demo to a corporate client they invariable ask for a trial installation. Now the marketing guy can just pull out his wallet, take out this credit card sized drive and hand it over and say "there you go, knock yourself out!". Its just a marketing gimmick.