Well worth the cost. This flash is worth $100-150 or more used.

A little basic instruction on file management....moving files, copying files, creating folders to organize etc.....would do you well. Getting files from a CD is no different than getting them from a camera, flash drive, external hard drive or other storage. Moving/copying files from computer to another medium is how you SAVE and BACKUP data.

If you don't know how to do this simple stuff, you are missing the whole idea of a computer. Find someone to show you this.

Look it up on eBay to see if any of these are selling and have actually sold. "Sold" prices give an idea what it's worth.

A little confused.
If your motherboard has onboard graphics or the CPU has graphics built-in, and you ADD a graphics card for better graphics capability, you would disable the ONBOARD graphics. You would do that in the BIOS configuration. If, that is, adding a graphics card doesn't automatically disable/override the onboard graphics.

You presumably would have no reason to use onboard graphics if you are adding a card.

No.

If I had any idea what you are talking about I could give it more thought.

Could it have been a viewer for Minox film?

Begging your pardon, but your "opinion" is confused or lacking in awareness. Do some damned research in the Internet, will you?

1. A RAID array is setup by a controller, either in hardware (on the motherboard) or a software controller. A RAID drive could be read by an IDENTICAL controller on another computer. The controller is what formats the drives in a RAID array, ANY RAID array. Whether it is RAID 0, 1, 2, 3, whatever. Most often the drives are a PROPRIETARY format of that RAID controller, and ARE JUST NOT READABLE BY A DIFFERENT CONTROLLER.

2. What do you mean "If the RAID is set up as redundant or backup"? ALL RAID IS REDUNDANT. That's what the "R" stands for. Do you know what that means?
It means that multiple drives are being used to hold the data, in different ways on different RAID methods, with all of them appearing as one drive to the computer operating system.
If one drive fails in a RAID array, it can be replaced, and the controller reconstructs the drive to take its place in the array.

The drives in all RAIDS except 1 are not identical. No single drive contains all the data. Mirroring (RAID 1) makes all the drives identical, with all the data on each one.
But these identical mirrors should not be thought of as "backups" in the sense that they cannot be individually read out of the array they were created in.

On that note, I am done banging my head against the wall with folks who don't understand and don't want to. "Opinions" are irrelevant. We are talking about how it all FUNCTIONS, not what you WANT it to be.

Over and out!

So do I. Sync programs MAINTAIN a backup by adding new files, updating changed files and deleting files on the backup.

I guess knowledge and common sense win out. Bye.

That's not MY line. You're talking to someone else.

Your "difference" is exactly what I said. Give up the argument, please.

So what's the difference? Short-time backup, long-term backup (archiving), it's still a backup.

I agreed with everything you said until recommending a sync program for backup. A sync program will replicate a virus, accidental erasure, etc to the targeted drive. A proper backup is done with a backup program such as the Windows 7 built into Windows 10, Acronis, EaseUS To Do Backup, etc. These allow you to keep multiple backups and an image of a drive.[/quote]

A sync program is just a way of automating doing a backup. Any of those backup programs will backup a defective drive as nicely as a good drive.

Making an image of a drive that is defective will produce a defective new drive.

By "the Windows 7 built into Windows 10", I presume you mean using "Backup & Restore (Windows 7)" utility to create a system image. Same idea as using EaseUS, Acronis, Ghost, AOMEI Backup or others to create a restorable image.

At the risk of opening a can of worms again on UHH.....

RAID is not backup. Mirror drives are not the same as making copies of a drive.

Reasons:
1. A RAID drive is most commonly NOT readable outside its RAID array. The RAID controller typically creates proprietary-format drives that are only readable in the RAID array they were
created by. There ARE exceptions to this, but you cannot know unless you take a drive from your RAID array and connect it via USB to a computer and (try to) read it. Please don't argue with ME. A little cursory research on the Web will find many discussions of this. I thought RAID mirroring was the way to go with my NAS, until I had to read one of the mirrors separately and could not, in Windows, Linux, Mac operating systems. The drive was NOT a recognizable format.

2. If there is a drive error (it's starting to fail for example), accidental/mistaken deletion, a virus or other data-related issue, the effects/problems are instantly replicated to the second (third, fourth...) drive instantly. So you have defective mirrors. Not exactly what you want, is it?

BACKING UP means making a copy of a drive's contents onto another drive with a sync program, or manually. This way, you decide when to do the backing-up, knowing FIRST that the data drive is good.

What you are doing is NOT protecting your critical data.

Flash drive and thumb drive are two names for the same thing. There are others.....USB stick is one.