MSI and Sony head to head with brushed metal mini-drives
By Ryan Block 
posted Jun 23rd 2004 6:31AM
posted Jun 23rd 2004 6:31AM
Hot off the heels of MSI's very stylish and compact 1.5GB brushed aluminum Mega Cache comes the Sony USD-G2 drive (what deja-vu?), which features 500MB more storage and a considerably larger MSRP of $315 (vs. the MSI, expected at about $125). Decisions, decisions.
I have the tiny, 20GB competing product from Archos (ARCDisk20), which you can find for less than $200 and only lacks an integrated USB port. For the extra memory, I'm more than happy to have a short USB mini cord around.
While the website certainly leaves much to be desired, I love my DataStor (http://www.pocketec.net) .. The 20gig USB2 is $179, while the 80gig is $349 ..
sony and msi hv come too late with this usb mini disk, freecomm (FHD-XS 20 & FHD-XS 40) has launched it well in advance and somehow looks similar.