[Discussion] "Big" USB flash memory

[Joseph Hansen]

May 22, 2007

Does ECS support booting to an external hard drive, such as a  
firewire drive?  If so, that might be a good option since, even if  
the internal drive were to melt down, one could boot to the backup  
drive and be up and running instantly.   (This is what I do with my  
Mac.)

Joe


On May 22, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Harry Travis wrote:

> 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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