What do you keep on your flash drive?

[Carson Dyle]

The USB flash stick that I carry on my keychain contains a mirror of my Dropbox folder, which contains pretty much all of my important documents. If I'm somewhere where I don't have internet access, I'll have access to these files. Can't remember the last time I actually used it, though. With Dropbox on all of my computers, I find little need need to carry files around these days.

At home I have a network, both wired and wireless, and a file server that are very seldom down, so there's virtually no need in the house for using a USB drive to transfer files.

I have a number of 4GB USB sticks with various OS installers that sit in a drawer and get used every once in a blue moon.

 

[KLin]

lol flash drives

 

[Sword-of-Kings]

I have school things on my flash drive. I would have it encrypted so that other people can't access the data if I lose it, but I can't because my school uses Chromebooks.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

OS X Mountain Lion, OS X Mavericks, Linux Mint (16?), etc.

 

[Ichinisan]

If you keep the top on it, can you really call it a "flash drive?"

 

[JBT]

Nothing. I Have a bunch but dont use any of them.

 

[poofyhairguy]

My 128gb one is basically my tablet's external HD. I have a ton of CBR, PDF and mkv files on there.

 

[02ranger]

Lubuntu live install, Windows portable apps, and misc files. It's a 16gb drive, and I keep it in my wallet. I also have a 512mb drive with PartedMagic on it, and use the remaining space for misc files.

Where did you find a drive that small today? Or is it an older one you already had? I remember the first flash drive I ever bought was $40 for 256MB, and I thought it was the greatest thing ever. lol

 

[Jeff7]

Mostly use them for Linux distros and moving secure files around when local networking is being salty. I don't really trust cloud services for obvious reasons.

"Your data is safe with us, at least until we implement a way of profitably mining it."


Corsair 32GB Voyager GT.
The most valuable thing on it is my archive of passwords for everything, stored in a well-encrypted volume. Though with the enormous increase in the capabilities of password cracking tools, I wonder how good of an idea that is anymore. (OpenCL graphics card arrays, >1-billion-password dictionaries thanks to numerous leaks of millions of passwords, etc.)

 

[shortylickens]

Better make sure you have backups of the backups

I think I need a RAID NAS. Or something.

 

[Ken g6]

Compressed, encrypted backups. So even if I lose the drive, nobody else gets my data.

 

[John Connor]

Drivers and shit that I will normally transfer from one computer to the next. Nothing spectacular. One USB drive has XP USB on it.

 

[Crono]

Mostly use them for Linux distros and moving secure files around when local networking is being salty. I don't really trust cloud services for obvious reasons.

I like ownCloud, have it hosted on my own server (which I also use to stream my music/audio collection using Subsonic). Best of both worlds, in my opinion. I still use OneDrive, Drive, and SpiderOak, but not for anything that I haven't stored locally or on my server, as well. The more backups the better.

 

[lxskllr]

Where did you find a drive that small today? Or is it an older one you already had? I remember the first flash drive I ever bought was $40 for 256MB, and I thought it was the greatest thing ever. lol

It's an old drive. I have a few of them I've been slowly getting rid of. My last wallet drive was a 256mb Kingston. I gave that to a coworker for shuttling files around the office. I actually bought it after its heyday was over from 5Below. I liked the physical size size. I also enjoy working with tight constraints. It forces you to pare things down to the essentials, and gives a good outlet for cleverness. I had a bootable TinyCore installatioin, and essential Windows portable apps, with a bit of room for documents.

Amazing how things have changed. My first drive was a 128mb Sandisk I paid $30 for, and I bought that on sale. You can now get a drive as small as your pinkly nail, that holds as much data as the average desktop hd available in 2003(when I got the Sandisk) for less money per GB($1.20 per GB hd vs 50¢ per GB flash)

 

[HeXen]

ha, I don't even remember what's on them. One I use for OS installs, it reads as an optical drive so I don't have to do anything fancy to get any OS to boot from drive.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I have a 32GB usb flash stick filled with music. I need this on my work so i do not have to listen to that awful 538 station that is chosen on my work as the default station.
My phone storage is filled with handy pdf material i might need for electronic stuff or programming.