I bought a sweet new 32 gig flash drive

[gorcorps]

My USB drive is attached to my car keys. Can't leave without it

 

[DrPizza]

My favorite flash card is in the shape of a credit card, and only slightly thicker. Looking at it, you wouldn't know it was a flash drive; the drive part unfolds from the card. Not a ton of memory (2GB?), but is very convenient, since I usually have my wallet with me.

 

[rudeguy]

How could anyone ever need 32 GB of storage?!

Nerds. That's who

 

[irishScott]

Flash drives are PITA. They don't even have to be the tiny ones. Any drive has a 50:50 chance of dropping into a wormhole, and landing somewhere you didn't put it. Early engineers recognized this, and provided a handy lanyard so you could tether it to your body. The trend in minimalism has omitted the the tether, so more drives are getting lost; probably behind the washing machine.

Keychains.

 

[Pardus]

And do you know how that SSD stores its data? It uses flash memory. So what you've done is swapped flash drives for a flash drive.

Want to try a laptop HDD instead?

I attach my flash drives to my keychain. I had a tiny 32GB drive, but the loop that hooked it on broke. So I'm back to my ruggedized 8GB drive that basically stores my backups and nothing else.

An external 128GB 1.8" USB 3.0 Portable Solid State Drive is a lot faster and reliable than a flash drive of the same size. I have some large Lexar and Sandisk flash drives that failed after a few months. To each his own.

 

[rudeguy]

Woohooooo I found it!

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have all sorts of USB sticks all over the place. I don't really use any for permanent stuff. I tend to use it to move stuff around via sneakernet or if I need to make a boot disk or something I can use that.

Whenever I order something from the internet I sometimes throw in a couple USB sticks too since they're so cheap and handy to have around. The lower end ones I tend to just give away if I need to give someone some large files. If they give it back, great, if not, I wont really run after it.

 

[88keys]

And do you know how that SSD stores its data? It uses flash memory. So what you've done is swapped flash drives for a flash drive.

Want to try a laptop HDD instead?

I attach my flash drives to my keychain. I had a tiny 32GB drive, but the loop that hooked it on broke. So I'm back to my ruggedized 8GB drive that basically stores my backups and nothing else.

Flash memory yes. But the difference is how it's configured that makes SSDS much faster and more reliable.

 

[uhohs]

on my keychain

only wish the write speeds were better.

 

[Imp]

... Does ANYONE here have USB 3.0 ports?

I'm seeing comments about speed -- thought I was the only one too lazy and too much a dinosaur to switch over to USB 3.

 

[Murloc]

too big, I don't like wasting money on stuff so easy to lose. I don't carry big stuff anyway, just documents.

 

[Leros]

I've been using the same 256MB flash drive for about 10 years. I paid $180 for it.

 

[Carson Dyle]

My USB drive is attached to my car keys. Can't leave without it

This. I have one main flash drive. On my one key ring with my house and car keys. All I really keep on the drive these days are backups of my Dropbox folder.

The only other flash drives I own are a box of 4GB drives that have operating system installers such as Windows 7, 8 and Server and various flavors of Linux on them.

 

[Koing]

My favorite flash card is in the shape of a credit card, and only slightly thicker. Looking at it, you wouldn't know it was a flash drive; the drive part unfolds from the card. Not a ton of memory (2GB?), but is very convenient, since I usually have my wallet with me.

I leave a 16GB usb stick in my jacket pocket and a pen.

Koing

 

[shortylickens]

... Does ANYONE here have USB 3.0 ports?

I'm seeing comments about speed -- thought I was the only one too lazy and too much a dinosaur to switch over to USB 3.

I do. my external DVD writer uses it. And I have a couple memory cards in a USB 3 card reader that benefit.

 

[highland145]

It was a really cool looking stainless steel one. It was super small.


Haven't seen it since I took it out of the package

Lost your pecker again....sad.

Might have loaded it in your spare mag.

 

[rudeguy]

Lost your pecker again....sad.

Might have loaded it in your spare mag.

It was under my desk leg. I'm going to tie a massive rubber band onto it tomorrow.