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billmaine2001

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Hi,

My first post ever. I've jumped on numerous things here and find it to be a great passer by working at night. :) I saw a 32MB pen drive here a few days ago and found this, x4 the memory, only x2 the price. Pretty slick looking too.

CHow,
Bill from Maine!:p

Linky LinkyLinky Linky http://www.usbkeydrive.com/order.html
 
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c627627

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Hm... what to do, what to do... wait for USB 2.0 with larger capacities in a few months or this...

Old thread hee-a where they warn us to make sure to get the ones that don't require drivers to work so we don't have to carry around the extra driver floppy.
 
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matsuhisa

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i would wait for the usb 2.0 flash pen drives... there is a huge difference in terms of speed there.
 
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bsobel

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Uh....they're out already.....
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These are NOT USB 2.0 drives, since 2.0 is backward compatible every sleazy marketer is now claiming their devices are USB 2. compatible. If you look the max transfer speed is listed at 12mb (USB 1 high speed)

Bill
 
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c627627

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Hahaha,
What's a USB 1.1 drive?
"It's the one that's USB 1.1 compliant & 2.0 compatable"
-- sneaky marketing bastards.:disgust:

We catch them every time and still they try to funk with us.
 
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c627627

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"Only" speed?
2.0 is fourty (40) times faster than 1.1 -- it's enough to shake your head wandering whether to buy this or wait, see what I mean?
 
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billmaine2001

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ah..I See. Here's my thought. I do tech support for mainly small office networks, app servers, etc. Pretty simple stuff, but not simple enough where these folks can do it themselves. Anyway, if I had a laptop, I'd probably use it 99% of the time for updating text documents for customer information....aka....time spent, what i did, new equipment serial #'s, contact info, ip address's, etc. This would be a handy tool for that and I could keep it on my key chain. Just need to find out how to make them secure if i loose it. That would be bad if anyone with the slightest bit of networking knowledge got ahold of it.

Thanks:cool::frown::confused:
 
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GermyBoy

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I will wait it out until there is a 10GB for about $200. I suppose I could spent another 100 and get the ipod, but I just need the space, and 10GB is enough for what I'd want to do.
 
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bsobel

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Originally posted by: GermyBoy
I will wait it out until there is a 10GB for about $200. I suppose I could spent another 100 and get the ipod, but I just need the space, and 10GB is enough for what I'd want to do.
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Thanks for sharing, it added alot to the discussion ;)

Bill
 
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Originally posted by: billmaine2001
Hi,

My first post ever. I've jumped on numerous things here and find it to be a great passer by working at night. :) I saw a 32MB pen drive here a few days ago and found this, x4 the memory, only x2 the price. Pretty slick looking too.

CHow,
Bill from Maine!:p

Linky LinkyLinky Linky http://www.usbkeydrive.com/order.html
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Okay, I dont crap on too many deals, but these usb plug and pen deals that people keep touting are NOT HOT. My local electronics place sells compact flash usb "plug" adapters for about $10. Combine that with one of those 128MB compact flash cards (Amazon $30 AR) and you have a 128MB usb plug memory. Screw $65 for 32mb when $40 for 128mb in a similar form factor is available. NOT HOT.
 
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rdh

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Originally posted by: c627627
"Only" speed?
2.0 is fourty (40) times faster than 1.1 -- ?
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In theory. Look at the extremetech comparison of USB2.0 and Firewire drives. Heck, look at my own mini comparison in the CompUSA USB2.0 Firewire hot deal. In both comparisons, Firewire kicks USB2.0 all over the place (even though USB2.0, in theory, should be faster). In practice, USB 2.0 drives are about 12x faster than USB1.0. Since the drive is not the bottleneck, I seriously doubt that USB2.0 flash adapters will be 40x fasters than USB1.0 flash adapters. Expect 10x faster and be thankful if they manage 20x faster.


 
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Woodie

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I have to disagree w/ rdh re the CompactFlash as a cheaper alternative.

Since I deal w/ W2K & XP machines most of the time, the USB is much more convenient: just plug it in. No drivers (they're built-in for those OSes), and no extra cable to carry around.

It'd be nice too have USB 2.0 speed, but I haven't seen any drives out yet, and the performance of the USB1 has been fine so far.

For the security piece, I tried their security software, but it means loading the security driver on every machine that you use the drive on. :( I've opted to not use the security, but to format the drive as NTFS, and encrypt certain files on it. If you really want to do it right, load a PGPDisk program to the drive, and then create a PGP disk on the flashdrive.
 
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taoofbean

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Is there anyone out there that manufatures firewire pen drives? It seems that would solve all the problems related to hemming and hawing over these piddly USB 1.1 drives. I have used one of the 1.1 drives in the past and found the performance to be abysmally slow. I wasn't expecting zippy but a freaking floppy was about as fast. As with everything, I am sure it depends on which brand you use.

I can only find firewire HD's, not pen drives so far...

Ishmael
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: billmaine2001
ah..I See. Here's my thought. I do tech support for mainly small office networks, app servers, etc. Pretty simple stuff, but not simple enough where these folks can do it themselves. Anyway, if I had a laptop, I'd probably use it 99% of the time for updating text documents for customer information....aka....time spent, what i did, new equipment serial #'s, contact info, ip address's, etc. This would be a handy tool for that and I could keep it on my key chain. Just need to find out how to make them secure if i loose it. That would be bad if anyone with the slightest bit of networking knowledge got ahold of it.

Thanks:cool::frown::confused:
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I think Lexar makes an adapter similar to a pen drive that uses a removeable Secure Digital card. You could use that.
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: rdh
Originally posted by: billmaine2001
Hi,

My first post ever. I've jumped on numerous things here and find it to be a great passer by working at night. :) I saw a 32MB pen drive here a few days ago and found this, x4 the memory, only x2 the price. Pretty slick looking too.

CHow,
Bill from Maine!:p

Linky LinkyLinky Linky http://www.usbkeydrive.com/order.html
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Okay, I dont crap on too many deals, but these usb plug and pen deals that people keep touting are NOT HOT. My local electronics place sells compact flash usb "plug" adapters for about $10. Combine that with one of those 128MB compact flash cards (Amazon $30 AR) and you have a 128MB usb plug memory. Screw $65 for 32mb when $40 for 128mb in a similar form factor is available. NOT HOT.
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Your opinion. Those adapters are usually 2x as large, and most of them require drivers. My SONY is the size of my car key, has a cover to protect it, is waterproof, and doesn't require drivers to use.
 
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Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
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Originally posted by: rdh
Originally posted by: c627627
"Only" speed?
2.0 is fourty (40) times faster than 1.1 -- ?
Click to expand...

In theory. Look at the extremetech comparison of USB2.0 and Firewire drives. Heck, look at my own mini comparison in the CompUSA USB2.0 Firewire hot deal. In both comparisons, Firewire kicks USB2.0 all over the place (even though USB2.0, in theory, should be faster). In practice, USB 2.0 drives are about 12x faster than USB1.0. Since the drive is not the bottleneck, I seriously doubt that USB2.0 flash adapters will be 40x fasters than USB1.0 flash adapters. Expect 10x faster and be thankful if they manage 20x faster.
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I think a lot of this is due to signal bleed from the USB cable. I bet the performance increases the shorter the distance the data has to travel. I know Firewire uses some heavy duty insulation on their cables (which is why they're so darned expensive), while USB cables are pretty much just glorified CAT5 cables. I bet if they make a heavy duty USB cable, it'll perform a lot better.
 
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