Latest (Feb 07) issue of MacWorld magazine has a letter to the editor with a user praising the wonders of the portable hard drive over the thumb-drive. Now while I admit a portable hard drive may cost less, work faster, and have more space than an equally priced thumb-drive…
You can drop a thumb-drive. Moron. Lets see how long your data lasts after that trusty SeaGate bounces off the linoleum at StarBucks.