[Discussion] "Big" USB flash memory

[Harry Travis]

said Harry, stirred by:
     "Brian Grawburg" <grawburg at bbnp.com>'s message of:
     Tuesday 22 May 07 at 05:39 PM,
     On: [Discussion] "Big" USB flash memory
     [echoed below, in part<=1]
                      -oOo-

I'm going to get rid of my desktp computer and use only my laptop.  I
want to transfer all the data from the desktop (about 30 GB) to several
USB flash drives.  Both the X Digital Hyper Drive and the Sony Micro
Vault have 8 GB units that look like they will fit the bill.  I know I
could use an actual USB 100 GB hard drive but I don't want to have
everything on one drive and I believe they require 2 USB ports (only
have 1). Also, one of the flash drives will be used on my company WinXP
Dell laptop.

Any one have any comments?

>From traffic here and my experience, I'd guess the relative risk of
losing ALL data on a flash drive to be a thousand times that of losing
it all on a a spinning disk. Even if both devices were dsiconnected from
your computer. 

External USB spinning drives in large sizes are readily available for
<$100.

HPT
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