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Portable Storage Guide

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-bits-and-bytes dept.

Elite 4CE writes "If you're like me, you are always transporting data from home to work, and back. I was surprized at how many options there were to facilitate this. Hardcoreware.net have posted their Portable Storage Guide for 2005, covering everything from flash based devices that fit into your pocket, to huge FireWire drives with a capacity of 400GB."

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  1. Surprizing? Hardly... by ggambett · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd say it's more like "amasing"... really, typos are not that "amuzing".

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  2. Re:New Category by Rei · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why use a 100gb device to haul your files around? You can mod an iPod Nano to 200GB.

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  3. Slashdotted by mysqlrocks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdotted already. Maybe they can put the article on one of these devices and send one to each of us?

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  4. Re:Beware Large Externals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unfortunately, the "Remeve Drive" option is right below the "Format Drive" in the pull down menu. Oops!

  5. Huge? Pah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    huge FireWire drives with a capacity of 400GB
    Well that might be enough to store the thumbnails of my porn collection, but I'll wait for the portable TB storage, thanks.
  6. Re:New Category by geomon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why use a 100gb device to haul your files around? You can mod an iPod Nano [uncyclopedia.org] to 200GB.

    Holy crap! that was good.

    You had me all set for some elegant looking finished product. This is more like Frankenstein's monster!

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  7. This is all BS.. Everyone quit lying.. by brxndxn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I swear.. we're all guilty here. Please stop lying. We all use the floppy disk. I don't care who you are (but more likely so if you're a government employee), you have a green floppy disk in your briefcase that has a masking-tape label on it written with pencil..

    I see this all the time.. people thinking they're cool on campus with their laptop and 1GB USB thumb drive.. plugging in a floppy to get at the 1.44mb of data they really need.

    LONG LIVE THE FLOPPY! *salute*

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    1. Re:This is all BS.. Everyone quit lying.. by Rhoon · · Score: 2, Funny

      *pets his floppy*

      My precious...

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  8. iPod Nano by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to suggest the iPod Nano as a good portable storage device, but now I am having second thoughts. Better scratch that idea!

  9. email by slackerboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you're like me, you are always transporting data from home to work, and back.

    And if you're a cheap, lazy bastard like me, you just email everything back and forth. (I mean, sure I can use my 512MB MuVo TX FM as a flash drive, but that's so much effort...)

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  10. They forgot by OverlordQ · · Score: 3, Funny

    I see they missed the most important device of all, the mega-uber-1337-6.7GHz, eleventy-billion TB laptop

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  11. My 4GB thumb drive by Fen14 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Very useful. Have it in my wallet. Anybody have any problems with premature removal? Hope it doesn't blow out all the rest of my data if I have to run quick and disconnect while ul/dl.

  12. Re:New Category by goodbadorugly · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously their next add-on should be to attach a gas generator to make up for the 6 minute battery life.

  13. Re:I used to ... but thumb drives kick butt. by Minwee · · Score: 2, Funny
    Plus if you ever felt like stealing a few hundred megs of software, documents or source code from your employer, it can be a real pain to transfer it over the Internet.

    Having a portable device small enough to hide in a body cavity makes like so much easier.

  14. Re:um... I have a life away from work by Paul+Slocum · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't work on work at home, but I need a way to transport my home projects to work!

  15. Re:New Category by Random_Goblin · · Score: 3, Funny

    dumbshit, it was uncyclopedia.org not wikipedia

    you see this just demonstrates the futility of wiki when random people can just change log in and change the domain name as and when they feel like!

  16. Re:Beware Large Externals by whiteranger99x · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately, the "Remeve Drive" option is right below the "Format Drive" in the pull down menu. Oops!

    You think that's bad, instead of selecting Remove Drive, I inadvertently selected Mail To All...and I still need to figure out how I'm going to explain to my grandma and my aunts why they got my midget porn...

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