A way to store all your USB Memory Sticks.

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tsupersonic

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Affordable enough .

How about their usage [ in time ] ?

Which will gave me more fidelitty ?

Depends. I have a flash drive from 2005, it's 512 MB, but it still works to this day. Fingers crossed - I only have had 1 HDD failure in my entire life. I would definitely trust a flash drive more than an external HDD - simply because there are no moving parts in flash storage. If you take good care of your equipment, it will last. My use case doesn't require external HDD's anymore - I have a NAS that is accessible anywhere from the world w/ an internet connection. For temporary storage, I use my SanDisk Extreme 64GB flash drive, which will blow the pants of any external HDD's in terms of transfer speeds. It has a lifetime warranty - what external HDD offers that? In this day and age, I'd forgo anything with HDD - I'd rather have an external SSD. 

 

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Everyone has different uses for different devices - just because you personally don't see a use case for flash drives doesn't mean they are useless for the rest of humanity. 

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Obi-Wan Kenobi

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USB sticks are obsolete now? Don't tell that to my free 200 gb stick. She's sensitive, and made me lots of money. So shhhh! (Plus, she was free)

Grand Master

TAZMINATOR

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USB sticks are obsolete now? Don't tell that to my free 200 gb stick. She's sensitive, and made me lots of money. So shhhh! (Plus, she was free)

 

"Hey girl, Obi talked about you behind your back!"  

 

Oh I am sorry, Obi.. I missed your "shhh" part.. 

 

My bad.

 

 

:p

Grand Master

Rohdekill

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Or maybe more . :laugh:

I can't get it ... Why would someone use a storage device [ I assume , with a capacity until 32 GB ] when a portable HDD has already came up with at least 10x more GB ?

My classmates are still acomplished with their 500 GB - 1 TB external HDD's ...

Why would anyone WANT to carry an external HDD, weighing 100x as much and consuming 100x more pocket space when all they want to do is transport a few files that easily fits on a thumb drive?

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goretsky Supervisor

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Hello,

 

Keychain-sized hook or peg rack on wall + box of paper keychain tags (with metal rims).  Write things like OS or application on one side of the tag in ink, and the build number, date or whatever on the other side in pencil.

 

Makes it easy to store USB flash drives and access them at a glance without having to dig around for the "right" one.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky

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MikeM97

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Everyone has different uses for different devices - just because you personally don't see a use case for flash drives doesn't mean they are useless for the rest of humanity. 

 

Why would anyone WANT to carry an external HDD, weighing 100x as much and consuming 100x more pocket space when all they want to do is transport a few files that easily fits on a thumb drive?

 

You guys take a joke too personally .

P.S : A completely functional OS + main utilitties + games and occasionally apps aren't just '' a few files '' . [ over 500 GB at least ]

P.S.S : HDDs aren't so weighful ... I could carry  it on in a workbag [ exactly like the stick's port as weight and shapes ] ....

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tsupersonic

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You guys take a joke too personally .

P.S : A completely functional OS + main utilitties + games and occasionally apps aren't just '' a few files '' . [ over 500 GB at least ]

P.S.S : HDDs aren't so weighful ... I could carry  it on in a workbag [ exactly like the stick's port as weight and shapes ] ....

Reread your replies to me - none of them were phrased as jokes. You came off serious. :p

Again, personal preference. I would much rather have one high capacity flash drive that is fast, and portable. Or carry multiple flash drives, because it's still way more portable compared to an external drive. Or use cloud storage. I'd use my NAS if I needed to access content (videos, pictures, etc.)

 

Also external drives come in two different flavors - ones that require power (heavy/more stuff to carry) or ones that don't require power (or power from USB), but may be slower. If you have to have an external drive, I'd definitely want USB 3 w/ SSD.

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MikeM97

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Reread your replies to me - none of them were phrased as jokes. You came off serious. :p

 

My sense of humor is...weird...

Apart from Linux/Unix discussions,all of my posts were freaking jokes...meant to be that kind of phrases which will start a more intensive rumor=in fact:'' Is he[me] a newbie or not?''...

Why do you think I've never got any of ''you're pointless'' replies as hugely serious...?

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GotBored

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P.S : A completely functional OS + main utilitties + games and occasionally apps aren't just '' a few files '' . [ over 500 GB at least ].

 

You can get USB thumb drives that are 1TB (They are currently very expensive though).

 

Most people don't need to carry around with them over 500gb of data to transfer over to another device. 128GB (Which you can pickup for like $30) is more than enough for most.

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MikeM97

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get lost troll, everybody uses usb sticks still

It depends on what that '' everyone '' must to do .

 

You can get USB thumb drives that are 1TB (They are currently very expensive though).

 

Most people don't need to carry around with them over 500gb of data to transfer over to another device. 128GB (Which you can pickup for like $30) is more than enough for most.

 

USB Thumb Drives [ Sticks ] that are 1 TB can't be afforded by everyone .

If we talk about 100 + GB data , some of us will think isn't enough .

A mate from another forum consider even 1 TB is '' not enough '' .

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