Sorry, I chopped off the best part when I sent that!!! The other major advantages of PRAM is that erase/write time lapses may be up to seven times as fast though no one seems to have mentioned that this should work well with the new USB 3.0, which is now officialy 1.5 years out of the gate, but I haven't seen any such devices. Footnote: while the smallest portions can rewrite the data over 10 times faster, the overall speed increases are expected to be only 7 times faster when scaled up. However, this brings us to another major point in that scalability has potential to put even more gigbytes in the current USB flash form factors. I don't expect to see any of these for TWO more years, which would be at the end of 2011 at the earliest, and I am not betting heavily on that, though, as always, a pizza lunch will be given to anyone bringing me such a gizmo that I can buy at competitive prices. I am hoping others will bring their own predictions to bear on this and that we can have a little contest.