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The Joy of the Flash Drive
An anonymous reader writes "A post to the C|Net site covers the numerous benefits of flash drives, such as speed, temperature, and battery consumption. The perk author Michael Kanellos is most fond of? The distinct lack of noise. 'The notebook I'm testing--a Dell Latitude D830 with a 64GB flash hard drive from Samsung--hasn't emitted a sound in three days. Flash drives, which store data in NAND flash memory, don't require motors or spinning platters. Thus, there are no whirring mechanical noises. Compare that with my T42 ThinkPad. It sounds like a guinea pig got trapped inside, particularly during the start-up phase. Vzoooot. Cronk, cronk, cronk. Zip, zip. (Pause.) Gurlagurlagurla...zweeee. '"
You must have loved that Iomega Zip drive. *rolls eyes*
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
Yep, that solved it. I'm ashamed that I missed this simple option, thanks a lot for pointing that out.
The other poster's solutions won't work on Windows and that's what my clients use, unfortunately.