Thoughts on mini USB storage

From general questions to the harder advanced user topics you will find them here!
Post Reply
BrightSide
Legit Enthusiast
Legit Enthusiast
Posts: 26
Joined: Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:19 am

Thoughts on mini USB storage

Post by BrightSide »

Can anyone suggest a good reason to not just get a few TB (Kingston makes them, and they aren't cheap) Flash drives to make all my backup EXTREMELY portable?
User avatar
Neptune24
Legit Fanatic
Legit Fanatic
Posts: 190
Joined: Mon May 17, 2010 10:28 am
Location: Hampshire, UK

Re: Thoughts on mini USB storage

Post by Neptune24 »

The only thing I would say is to still have a proper external drive. Flash drives are easy enough to drown or drop or even loose all together.

Neptune24

Sent from my KFTT using Tapatalk
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600)
Mother Board: Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD PhenomII X4 965 Processor, 3.4GHz(Stock)
Memory: 16GB RAM
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 550 Ti Memory: 1024 MB
GPU Driver:
8.17.12.7061
Direct X 11
User avatar
bubba
Staff Writer
Staff Writer
Posts: 4765
Joined: Sun May 01, 2005 10:24 am
Location: STL

Re: Thoughts on mini USB storage

Post by bubba »

BrightSide wrote:Can anyone suggest a good reason to not just get a few TB (Kingston makes them, and they aren't cheap) Flash drives to make all my backup EXTREMELY portable?
Price for one, but if that isn't an issue for you, I want your disposable income. A TB flash drive is over $1,000, and you want a few of them... :shock:
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
-Thomas Jefferson
User avatar
bmaverick
Legit Extremist
Legit Extremist
Posts: 255
Joined: Fri Apr 04, 2008 2:32 pm
Location: Nashville, TN

Re: Thoughts on mini USB storage

Post by bmaverick »

Other than SanDisk and Corsair, I've not had the best of luck with USB jump drives. Some just go bad randomly and it's rare to retrieve the data from them.
My heatware!

Support Your Local Sheriff - At high noon

Jason: "How much does it pay?"
Citizen: "Well, none of our other sheriffs ever lived long enough to find out."
Post Reply