(meteorobs) OT -FlashDrive is an active storage ADVANTAGE.

[stange]

A 2 Gb. (storage) flash drive had Sentinel's Python25 program copied unto 
it.

When Sentinel was "STARTED FROM" this flash drive, ALL DATA FILES WERE 
WRITTEN TO THE FLASH DRIVE! and none were written to the normal Sentinel 
program on the computers hard drive. There was no change in the meteor 
detection & re-arming delay time noted however on false detections I 
initiated.

--This suggests programs like Sentinel, likely Handyavi, and possibly other 
video camera programs that consume huge drive space during recording hours 
should be able to have their data accumulate on a storage flash drive 
attached to the computer. A large flash drive probably costs far less than a 
large hard drive.

A nice fireball just occured here in the North-West at 20081117_0720:25 UT. 
About 1.5 seconds in duration. I did not get to check the re-arm time as I 
was on this computer when it happened. Those files, the composite picture, 
and the Q-time video, are on the flash drive only now.

So there is some gain here.  -YCSentinel