I use flash drives quite a bit to give files to other people or move them from one machine to another. I also store some things on them. I know I can use Google Drive, but sometimes a flash drive is better. It seems like I'm always needing a larger drive than what I have on hand. In the old days, I had a 250MB drive. Now I have several 32GB drives. I see a Samsung 128GB flash drive on Amazon for $25, and I'm tempted.
What are your thoughts on uses and sizes of flash drives?
My thinking is you can never go too big. I keep a 128gb on my keychain. It's come in handy so many times. Especially so, since I use a Surface for travel, and it's storage is pretty limited.
I use Dropbox for transfers
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jerryc41 wrote:
I use flash drives quite a bit to give files to other people or move them from one machine to another. I also store some things on them. I know I can use Google Drive, but sometimes a flash drive is better. It seems like I'm always needing a larger drive than what I have on hand. In the old days, I had a 250MB drive. Now I have several 32GB drives. I see a Samsung 128GB flash drive on Amazon for $25, and I'm tempted.
What are your thoughts on uses and sizes of flash drives?
I buy cheaper smaller drives when passing a file to someone. Usually I never see the drive again!
I usually don't transfer a LARGE amount of info between systems.
Images are copied to two computers using the card(s).
If I have to use sneaker-net I have an 8Gb USB card, but normally transfer one or three files by WIFI.
If I have to transfer a TON between the desktop to the laptop, I use a cable and turn off WIFI on the laptop.
"All your eggs in one basket" comes to mind.
DirtFarmer
Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
Times have changed.
One of my first flash drives held 16 MBytes. I gave it away with some data. It wasn't worth holding on to.
16 and 32GByte flash drives are fairly cheap so I generally use them these days.
Flash drives are small and hard (for me) to keep track of so I don't want to invest in a large one and keep a lot of stuff on it. They get left in pockets and go through the wash so I don't view them as archival media.
Doddy
Loc: Barnard Castle-England
Yes jerry, they are handy devices, I have quite a few, with videos of family, downloaded films and my cd collections on them. They are cheap enough to hand out to friends and family, and not fretting too much if you never see them again..the flash drives that is!
I bought a 256GB flash drive at Costco last year for $39. That's a larger capacity than my laptop harddrive!
I'm actually disappointed that I cannot find flash drives in the 2GB size because I too like to give photos away and it's usually not that many in the set.
Longshadow wrote:
In what respect?
Think in terms of dropping your basket. Or loosing/damaging your one large usb drive with your only copy of your data.
I buy several when Staples or some similar store has them on sale for under $10.00. At those prices, they're only around 16 gigabytes but that's more than enough to send a bunch of photos to a friend and at that price, I really don't care if I don't get the drive back. I don't use them as backups; I have an external 1 terabyte hard drive for that.
Interesting lesson: I have an iMac and when I first formatted the flash drive to clean it, my friend couldn't open it on his PC. Turns out my iMac has the option to format a drive in Apple or PC format and I have to choose the PC format unless the receiver has an Apple product.
nimbushopper wrote:
I bought a 256GB flash drive at Costco last year for $39. That's a larger capacity than my laptop harddrive!
I'm actually disappointed that I cannot find flash drives in the 2GB size because I too like to give photos away and it's usually not that many in the set.
Amazon... I buy in bulk for my wife, her sewing machines use only 1gb or 2gb usb drives. The members of her quilt guild swap designs using these drives all the time.
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