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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. Beware Large Externals by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Informative

    We have used some of the 250GB Western Digitals here and a known fault is that, if you remove the drive improperly, it will corrupt the entire drive. Rendering useless all 200+ gigs of info on there. But yeah, other than that, they work great! So be careful how you unplug and always use the "Remove Drive" feature.

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    1. Re:Beware Large Externals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      This has nothing to do with the specific model of drive. Not telling the OS you intend to remove the drive will corrupt the file system for the exact same reason as if you shut down your computer by pulling the plug out of the wall. The OS does write caching. It must be given the opportunity to flush that cache.

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  2. Security Risks? by MandoSKippy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not saying Poster is security risk. But as someone who does security audits for banks, "taking data home" ie becoming more and more of a Security risk. It is easy for an employee to copy, burn, etc information with customer data with it. Another issue is smaller banks don't have the dedicated resources to devote to proper DRM and OEMS like Dell often include CD-Rs and make USB flash drives so cheap that it gets more and more troublesom to block it.

  3. Software for your portable deviced by leftyfb · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those of you who have USB flash drives or just about any other type of portable media, check out http://www.no-install.com/ Tons of applications that you can run from your portable media and not have to worry about losing your settings betweeb different machines.