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There are entire sites dedicated to everyday carry (EDC) with some sites focused on flashlights, knives, Atwood tools, etc. You can spend a lot of time and money on EDC "research" :-)

Front pocket (in approx. order of use)

• Cell phone with $20 behind cover
• ---
• Burt's Bees lip balm with a keyring cap
• Victorinox Swiss Army Manager Pocket Knife w/ toothpick on a McGizmo Nano clip (20mm #1)
• Olight i3S EOS LED flaslight with lithium AAA battery
• some inch-wide Gorilla Tape and elecrical tape wrapped around a black Sharpie Mini
• 64 GB USB 3.0 flash drive (Kanguru for write-protect switch; FlashBlu30 but considering SS3) on split ring and metal #0 Nite Ize S-biner
• silicon ear plugs and half a Q-tip in a key fob (approx. same diamater as lip balm, slightly shorter)
• $20 bill wrapped around BIC Mini lighter on a Keeep-It holder
• all connected with other split rings and clips on an older Munroe Mega Dangler
• -

Other front pocket (in approx order of use)

• white LED Photon freedom with car keys on the snap ring
• True Utility TU245 key shackle with 3 keys, #2 Phillips key, grocery card, and Uncle Bill's Sliver Gripper Tweezer
• house key cut on green KeyLights on clip that came with True Utility key shackle
• $20 wrapped around a 0.5 oz (15 mL) Purell hand sanitizer in jelly wrap holder
• all connected with a split ring
• ---
• leather billfold with slots for six cards; cash $1s/5s/10s/20s, bandaids, a hair pin, and Plop Boot Manager on a credit-card sized CD-R
• -

Shirt pocket--you *always* have a shirt pocket, right?

• Zebra Clip-On four-color pen + 0.5 mm pencil
• Monteverde Stylus Tool Pen with ruler, level, and screwdriver
• a handkercheif wrapped around a small (2.5" x 4") Moleskine book

Kanguru SS3â with Physical Write Protect Switch
High-Performance USB3.0 Flash Drive

http://kanguru.com/storage-acc...

I agree with you. WP should but the standard, not the esoteric.

If someone wants to do business with memory products, here's another idea: Produce USB drives with a physical write-enable switch so the drives can be malware immune when only read access is needed.

Done.

https://www.kanguru.com/index.php/kanguru-defender-elite

:-)

Well if IronKey Dave is going to plug his wares, above, then why not..

If you're interested in additional secure flash drive options check out Kanguru Solution's Defender Elite products. We use on-chip password matching and 256bit AES(CBC) hardware encryption. The drive can be remotely administered and deleted per my other post via our KRMC web-based administration console. Please don't let the Sandisk products give our industry a bad name

http://shop.kanguru.com/index.php/flash-drives/secure-storage/kanguru-defender-elite http://shop.kanguru.com/index.php/krmc

Well if IronKey Dave is going to plug his wares, above, then why not..

If you're interested in additional secure flash drive options check out Kanguru Solution's Defender Elite products. We use on-chip password matching and 256bit AES(CBC) hardware encryption. The drive can be remotely administered and deleted per my other post via our KRMC web-based administration console. Please don't let the Sandisk products give our industry a bad name

http://shop.kanguru.com/index.php/flash-drives/secure-storage/kanguru-defender-elite http://shop.kanguru.com/index.php/krmc

It should come with an eSATA adapter on the other end of the stick. Like this one.

http://www.kanguru.com/eflash.html

Can you RAID eSATA?

http://www.kanguru.com/eflash.html

Powered esata is here. It came later in the spec, but its here. This 32gb drive supports it:

http://www.kanguru.com/eflash.html

29mb/s in USB2 and 80mb/s in esata.

For Mac users (whose machines can boot from firewire devices) I can recommend the http://www.kanguru.com/fireflash.html.

My 4gig unit is tough as a brick: hasn't failed me once (i.e. dataloss) and it has helped resurrect machines several times.

(somewhere, sometime, I'd read that that Firewire (400) is faster than USB2 (480) because there's less 'overhead' in the data packets. can anyone verify this?)

tigerdirect has it wrong. According to the manufacturer's page ( http://www.kanguru.com/flashdrive_max.html ) it will do the USB 2.0 speed of 480 mb/s or 60 MB/s.

Well, lets hope the Toshiba one costs a hell of a lot less then $749.95!!

Have I missed something or is this device already holding 4x what TFA describes?

http://www.kanguru.com/flashdrive_max.html

Of course it's $2800 US from TigerDirect.

Kanguru has had a 16GB drive out for over 3 months. Why is this interesting new news? http://www.kanguru.com/flashdrive_max.html

Here's one FireWire flash drive. Although the speeds might be faster, I like USB better just because *everything* has a USB port nowadays, but many computers (like my Dell desktop and Dell work laptop) lack FireWire ports.

The idea of a home server that doesn't need any computer per se is in its infancy: 160 GB HD, iTunes sharing, BitTorrent client, all self-contained so you can set it and take your laptop with you while your home connection continues to download all your favorite Creative Commons licensed Ogg Tarkin video files. I like it!

Or even better, use a firewire flash drive (up to 4GB) like this one: http://www.kanguru.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryI D=39. Why do you need 60GB to boot Knoppix, unless you are doing disaster recovery. Also, the constant spin of an iPod's platters will significantly decrease the life of the drive. The iPod is meant to move chunks of data (music files) over to flash memory to reduce HD spin and increase battery life. Not to run an OS. Target/Firewire boots have been a life-saver in the Mac world and I often wonder why PC manufacturers don't incorperate this functionality.

There's a company called Kanguru that makes a USB-pluggable device holding up to eight 400GB removable drives. That's 3.2 terabytes without changing media.

(Geez, my porn collection is nowhere near that size)

http://www.kanguru.com/fireflash.html

Well, color me uninformed. Oops. /me flogs himself with a Google stick.

It seems there is a Firewire flash drive. Available in 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB. FYI, the 128MB one is about $55, the 4GB one is about $650.

If you are looking for a portable device only for Photo Storage, and can do without "bells & whistles" like a viewing screen, then check out the:

Kanguru Media X-Change 2.0 .

I've been using one for several years now, and it's enabled me to get, what some refer to as "the money shot", on several occasions.

Supports Compact Flash, Smart Media, Secure Digital, Multimedia Card, IBM Microdrive, Sony Memory Stick

Available is several sizes, and reasonably priced as well:

• Media X-change 2.0 20G
• • $179.95
• Media X-change 2.0 80G
• • $299.95

I don't have any connections to the company, other than being a very satisfied user of their product, and customer service.

http://www.kanguru.com/micromp3pro.htmlKanguru Solutions has one. Actually several. You can scroll through the song list (and actually see the names and length of the tunes). And you can replace the batteries. My only issue with them is that the largest size storage you can get is 1 GB.

• High Quality MP3 & WMA Playback
• Up To 1GB of internal storage
• High Speed USB2.0 Transfer Rate
• Skip Proof Playback
• Built in Digital Voice Recorder
• Back-lit LCD with ID3 Tag display
• 5 Mode Equalizer
• (Rock/Pop/Jazz/Classic/Normal)
• 17 Hour Battery Life
• Just over three inches long
• Withstands up to 1000Gs of shock
• Driverless on most Operating Systems

(fstab entry: /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat defaults,noauto,user 0 0)

Only *.mp3 and *.wma files are played when you unplug it. The others remain there for your temporary storage needs.

Last time I checked you can't write to a CD-ROM, so you'd need a USB key anyway to store your settings. Otherwise you're starting from scratch every time you boot up. Assuming this MP3 thing is writable, it's more like MandrakeMove where you can take your settings and your entire OS from one computer to another. It's not just meant to be a rescue disk. It's more like Knoppix plus a USB key. Those of us who need rescue disks can build them ourselves.

Obviously this device isn't meant for you. That doesn't mean it has no purpose or shouldn't be marketed at all. Don't like it? Don't buy it. Hurray, capitalistic freedom of choice. I'll never understand why it is that when people don't see a need for something in their personal life, they consistently take the attitude that the object or technology in question is pointless and shouldn't even exist. THAT, is what I don't "get". Seems like these kind of posts are all over the place every time a new technology or piece of hardware or software comes out. It's a big world, why can't you just let people do what they want as long as it doesn't hurt you? Why tell the rest of us that there's a "limit" just because you can't see the point? Why does there need to be a point? I'm sure you'd be similarly annoyed by people saying they don't see the point of rescue disks and why should anyone bother, blah blah blah, etc.

More on-topic, I can't wait to see more FireWire flash drives and keys. Imagine a FireWire compactflash card reader with an 8GB microdrive in it... You could partition it and install Mac OS X, Linux, Linux PPC, and Windows and be able to boot at least one of those on any modern desktop computer. Of course Windows is the least portable of the bunch, and the least compatible with the other filesystems. Might as well not even bother. But you would probably need a FAT32 partition to exchange data between HFS+ and your chosen filesystem on the Linux partition(s). I don't know that for a fact though, maybe Mac OS X can read Ext2/3 and others.

Damn, that would be interesting. Anybody know if it's actually possible to boot multiple operating systems from one FireWire drive? You could boot to a boot manager but can the boot manager then load the OS, or will a special boot manager need to be created for FireWire drives? And then of course there's the mixing of Mac and PC operating systems on the same disk. The file systems can coexist fine, but can they all be booted from the same drive? I think the boot mechanisms are vastly different between the Mac and PC platforms. Are the differences insurmountable?

Of course with the easy daisy-chainability of FireWire (without any massive performance penalty) you could always have one Mac drive and another PC drive and just hook them together after you boot up the main one. Seems like that would work rather well. And if you get a portable jobber it will even be powered by the FireWire bus. Damn, Lacie has portable combo FireWire/USB drives now up to 100GB, with a 60GB version at 7200RPM...

Whelp, looks like I just talked my bad self into a new pet project. Goodbye paycheck!

http://www.kanguru.com/fireflash.html

Here.

It's a shame they didn't review Kanguru's MicroDrive+. I don't know about speed, but it includes a SD slot (or CF slot on another model), so it doubles as a USB SD card reader.

Located here. Got good reviews from PC Magazine a few weeks back. I'd definitely trust this company...a good long history of good products

I haven't tried one myself, but how about this? Reads SmartMedia, Secure Digital, Microdrive, Compact Flash, MuiltiMedia Card, Memory Stick, or Memory Stick Pro and writes to CD-R or CD-RW.