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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. 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. 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.
  4. 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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  5. 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!

  6. 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.