[Ham-Computers] USB memory stick - cruzer question

[Fr. Johnny]

Hi I am new to the list but not new to ham radio or computers....My name 
is Johnny Shepherd KD5LWU Cortez, Colorado Local Ham club president 2 
years, General class operator. I alkso have a question along with Ko6BB 
Phillip.....I have a SanDisk cruzer micro 2.0 GB stick and I am 
wondering if there are any programs specific to the cruzer that have 
been written? What is the best way to use this for ham radio where I can 
go to someones house and plug it in to say use Echolink or CQ100 or use 
it to control my HF remote base? Thanks for allowing me to be part of 
the great group here  and for the forthcoming answers...73 Johnny KD5LWU

Philip, KO6BB wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a question about how memory sticks use/allocate memory.  
> Yesterday I bought a Memorex USB 2GB stick and loaded a couple 
> directories that I wanted to load into another computer.
>
> One directory (spoken Bible with background music) contains 1255 mp3 
> files, total size of 840MB, SIZE ON DISK 861MB.  OK, that's 
> reasonable. Another folder, containing sheet music in text format 
> consists of 1209 text files, total size of 1.75MB, SIZE ON DISK 
> 37.7MB.  That seems like an excessive overhead!
>
> I 'think' I know what's happening here, something to do with "sector 
> size", it looks like a hard disk in "My Computer".  But the same 1209 
> files on my "D" drive only occupies 4.9 MB, roughly 1/7th of what it 
> does on the memory stick.  Is it normal for USB memory sticks to waste 
> storage space like this?
>
> 73 de Phil,  KO6BB
> http://www.ko6bb.com
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