USB Flash Drives

[dungeon92]

I was thinking about this from a topic on here then I was on Newegg and see so many stupid reviews about USB flash drive speeds, people don't realize that USB flash drives are much slower than any HDD since flash suffers slow speeds since flash just isn't fast if you want it cheap, also this guy didn't realize that FW is faster so that gives you some idea.
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[Bandit Bill]

I use a thumb drive for work. I never considered the speed of them. I know they're not that quick, but it's never been a factor to me. I just remember the days of floppies and I am thankful that thumb drives are so much quicker.

Where I am concerned about the speed of flash memory is the SD cards for my camera. 133X is what I use. There are faster cards out now but my Nikon D50 won't write any faster.

[TyPod]

I have two flash drives, but they hardly get use. All I have on them is a couple dozen word documents, and DOOM Collectors Edition. Sweet game...

[aj]

I have and use a both a USB flash drive and a USB 2.5 inch portable hard drive for exchanging data between systems.

I have to say personally I find the overiding factor which makes me use a USB flash drive is the size of it.

You can carry it with you anywhere. The same can't be said of a portable hard drive unless you don't mind having it in a pocket (and even 2.5 inch drives are a bit large to comfortably do that) or are willing to carry/wear something to contain it...

As others have said, all methods these days are much faster than the floppy/tape drives we used to use for exchanging data.

Whether a 300MB video file I downloaded at work takes 2 seconds or 30 seconds to transfer from my memory stick to computer I'm not too concerned about.

[ghostdawg]

I also have 2 usb thumb drives and usually put some Windows utility programs and store files on them for when someone has a virus or something wrong with their computer.
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[Cypher]

I have several of these and use them daily.

1 has all my uni files on,
1 has a backup of all my personal files on
1 has work related stuff on, mainly for transferring between my work PC (corporate network) and my non networked machines

I also use several of these for backing up control systems at work, and keeping emergency backups on.

I'd be lost without mine.
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[g5g5]

I backup my important documents with a 2GB thumb drive and Mozy every week. I also carry around a bootable 512MB thumb drive for flashing BIOS's at work.
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[JohnnyBoy]

I've just replaced a USB Zip drive (complete with leads and a transformer) and a stack of Zip disks with a storage device that's the size of a packet of chewing gum. I think that's just incredible.
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[robinscruffy]

I have 3 USB flash drives but i don't really use them, i use a RAW HDD (incased in K'Nex) instead, does the job pretty well but it's sluggish when running a iMovie project off it.
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[devo]

I have two 2GB Sony MicroVault Plus drives. I mostly use them for backing up financial stuff, pictures and other super duper secret files. They are stored in our home fire safe.

[dungeon92]

I have a 256MB running portable apps, a 1GB for screwing around, and a 4GB that I use for backing up my files and it has a full backup of my PSP files from a 2GB card. I might consider getting a 16GB one next year if they get cheaper (around $50-$70 like my 4GB) I'll get one since my 256MB and 1GB are showing signs that I had on a 128MB that didn't take formatting and showed as full.
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[Bobaloo]

We use them only to transfer files from home. My daughter uses hers to bring her writings to school. Mainly Word files. I use an old iPod mini that has problems playing, but HD is still good.
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[dungeon92]

Well my 256MB died actually about 2 hours after posting, I was messing around with a portable app and it was slow and wouldn't remove hardware or respond so I unplugged it and it bricked on me anyway my 1GB is now running portable apps and nothing else. My 1GB is faster and has been more reliable than my 256MB was, for some reason any Lexar I use gets an issue with just stopping and bricking on me. My 1GB and 4GB are both SanDisk and have yet to give me issues once.
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[JohnnyBoy]

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