That is pretty slick.

I recently picked up a drive enclosure which does something similar.

It is a Zalman VE200 and it will allow you to choose which ISO is loaded into the cdrom emulator (via a hardware rocker switch). It is a usb or esata device and the emulated cd/dvd shows up as a device and is bootable.

A pretty slick device but not as 'convenient' as a usb stick that takes care of the bootloader/choice issue.

Sean (mobile)

On 2011-07-29, at 11:22 AM, "Adam Thompson" <athompso@athompso.net> wrote:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elegantinvention/isostick-the-optical-drive-in-a-usb-stick

The concept is definitely viable, since Sandisk did something very similar in their Cruzer line of products, except you can’t update the contents of the fake CD-ROM drive yourself on a Cruzer.

I’m buying one!

-Adam Thompson
athompso@athompso.net
(204) 291-7950 - direct
(204) 489-6515 - fax

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