What is Active Disk as pertains to thumb drives?

[m***@privacy.net]

Im in market for a flash memory thumb drive.

Came across IOMega's thumb drives and they tout something called
"Active Disk" that will allow me to run apps right off the thumb drive
itself.

How is this different or better than other brand flash thumb drives
that don't use Active Disk?

Can't I run some apps off any thumb drive anyway without the need for
Active Disk?

Advice?

[Rick]

Post by m***@privacy.net
Im in market for a flash memory thumb drive.
Came across IOMega's thumb drives and they tout something called
"Active Disk" that will allow me to run apps right off the thumb drive
itself.
How is this different or better than other brand flash thumb drives
that don't use Active Disk?
Can't I run some apps off any thumb drive anyway without the need for
Active Disk?
Advice?

AFAIK "Active Disk" is a subsitute, of sorts, for the AUTORUN
command for starting programs off a CD ROM as soon as the disk is
inserted. And as such it has had a somewhat bad reputation for
conflicting with the MS variation for the CD ROM once it's
installed.

It accomplishes little, can screw up your system, and for what it
does is best to just avoid it. Just point to the thumb drive and
start the application instead.

[m***@privacy.net]

Post by Rick
It accomplishes little, can screw up your system, and for what it
does is best to just avoid it. Just point to the thumb drive and
start the application instead.

OK Thanks Rick!!

That's what my gut feeling was telling me also... to just use a plain
ole thumb drive and skip active disk