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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. New Category by geomon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How long until there is a category for embedded DRM as described in this article?

    It will probably start out with a few devices with DRM, but slowly everyone of the storage vendors will have a DRM solution. It will only be a matter of time, really.

    That said, the Seagate 100GB unit looks sweet.

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    1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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.

      Kids these days don't know nothing...

    2. 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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  4. Large RAID at home by Mad-Mage1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With the ability to push to my house from work at over 8 Mbps, I rarely worry about this

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  5. um... I have a life away from work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

    No, I'm not like you. I like to keep work at work, and out of my home, where I have better things to do than work.

  6. 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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  7. 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.
  8. I used to ... but thumb drives kick butt. by everphilski · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I used to. It worked well. But after having a thumb drive for a month I wouldn't switch back. I have my entire "my documents" and development tree stored on my thumb drive. It is always the latest and most updated version. When I arrive at work, I copy it over. When I leave work, i copy from the computer to the thumb drive. Same as home. The internet worked ... unless internet was out at home. Or if internet was out at work. And the data was too preicous not to have even for a few hours. And when you are in an environment where internet traffic is heavily monitored (and pushing upwards of 100M) the thumb drive reigns supreme.

    -everphilski-

  9. 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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  10. 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!

  11. 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.

  12. 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.