I'm pretty computer illiterate (though getting better). I'm looking into getting a thumb drive to be able to take documents back and forth from home and school. I've done a little research online, but thought I'd try to get some opinions from people here.
I'd need it to transfer things like powerpoint presentations, papers, etc- you know, school stuff. What would be a good size, brand, type to get? Oh, and I'm not looking to spend a fortune, either.
First of all, how about that game last night? It looks like the Tigers own the Twins this year.
I think you're describing one of those mini drives that go in the USB port, right? I have two. Buy the cheapest one available. I don't think price is an issue. I have a 128 MB Cruzer that works fine for me.
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more space is better than less. 128MB would probibly be fine (in honesty), 512 would give a little more flexibility. best thing you can do is put some example things into a file (at home) and see how big it is, then double it.
I'm looking at amazon right now and you can pick up 2GB for under a hundred bucks. My first computer had a 6GB dirve I think.
I've purchased the following and love it. It's 512MB, costs about $20.00 and it's waterproof and shockproof. If you're like me you will leave it in your pocket and wash it. That was the fate of the last two thumb drives I had.
If there's a small price difference to step up to the next level, go for it. Don't splurge to get the biggest (since the newest carry a premium). But, if it's big enough, you can carry your MP3s and playlists with you and listen on your office PC right from the drive.
Get one that either hooks to your keys or has something noticable left behind on your keychain. I had one that did neither, and I would forget it in my work PC and just head home. Now I've got this one.
It's water resistant, since it has a removable rubber cover that stays behind on your keychain (if desired). If you scroll down to the bottom, there's a picture of the cover coming off.
Last tip. Some thumbdrives can be MP3 players, too. Also, many thumbdrive-esq MP3 players act as thumbdrives. Something to consider if you don't already have an MP3 player.
My first computer had only a cassette tape for data storage and 16k or RAM.
Not even a floppy drive. And the "monitor" was the tv.
I can beat that.
Only cause of the RAM though.
Commdore VIC 20.
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Og.
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Haha, while we're at it, I remember when I could call floppies 'hard disks' because 'floppies' were the 5.25" discs that were really floppy
Can't control myself....
The disk in both of these are floppy...
Such a geek...
It's just the case on the 3.5" that is hard.
Calling them 'hard disks' has never been right and just causes confusion since we actually have hard disks that have hard disks...
Ok sorry, I had to say it. It's one of my nerdy pet peeves.
Og.
__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
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If there's a small price difference to step up to the next level, go for it. Don't splurge to get the biggest (since the newest carry a premium). But, if it's big enough, you can carry your MP3s and playlists with you and listen on your office PC right from the drive.
Get one that either hooks to your keys or has something noticable left behind on your keychain. I had one that did neither, and I would forget it in my work PC and just head home. Now I've got this one.
It's water resistant, since it has a removable rubber cover that stays behind on your keychain (if desired). If you scroll down to the bottom, there's a picture of the cover coming off.
Last tip. Some thumbdrives can be MP3 players, too. Also, many thumbdrive-esq MP3 players act as thumbdrives. Something to consider if you don't already have an MP3 player.
I think pretty much all MP3 players have some data storage capacity. Most non-ipods work just like thumb drives in this regard.
I believe you can set up iPods to store data as well and I know you can do it with Shuffles.
Og.
__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
Calling them 'hard disks' has never been right and just causes confusion since we actually have hard disks that have hard disks...
Ok sorry, I had to say it. It's one of my nerdy pet peeves.
Og.
Yes, I'm well aware of this fact; however, this was in 5th grade, and it was a practical way of differntiating them. Also, I was a CS/Math major and am currently a .NET developer, so I have plenty of nerdy pet peeves as well, and also get annoyed with terminology
Working in the low end of things, ie in a computer store, to this day I STILL get people calling them that.
3 months till school..
Breathe...3 months...
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Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
I recently upgraded from a 128MB to a 256MB Memorex flash drive, $30 at Staples. But I highly highly recommend doing a complete backup of the flash drive regularly - every couple days, maybe more frequently if you're working on a big project. I've been saved from near-disaster through this practice. Just copy-paste all your files and folders from the flash drive to a special folder on your hard drive.
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First of all, how about that game last night? It looks like the Tigers own the Twins this year.
Ugh. You got that right.
Eveyone, thanks. I'm going to go with a 512 at the lowest price I can find.
I have an ipod nano and thought I read somewhere that I could use it as a flash drive but haven't really checked back into that. Besides its filled up with music.
Oh, FWIW, my family did have one of those Radio Shack/ Tandy things that you had to plug into the TV when I was younger.
For an on-topic post (yet in the Off-Topic forum still), I have a 1GB flash drive, and though I don't remember who made it, you never know when you have to carry basically the contents of a CD somewhere (really hand for transferring large things between computers as well).
After just checking out online, I found my flash drive for $33
There are a bunch of other ones on there as well. Generally, I recommend buying this kind of stuff online because you can get the best prices, as tech stuff tends to be updated fairly often, and retail stores can't move their stock so easily, so will have older stuff for the same price as newer, better stuff.
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