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I bought a sweet new 32 gig flash drive

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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.
 
lxskllr said:
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.
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Keychains.
 
Ken g6 said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
Ken g6 said:
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.
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Flash memory yes. But the difference is how it's configured that makes SSDS much faster and more reliable.
 
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on my keychain

only wish the write speeds were better.
 
... 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.
 
too big, I don't like wasting money on stuff so easy to lose. I don't carry big stuff anyway, just documents.
 
gorcorps said:
My USB drive is attached to my car keys. Can't leave without it
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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.
 
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DrPizza said:
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.
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I leave a 16GB usb stick in my jacket pocket and a pen.

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