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[Jaskoonline]

Do you use A USB Pen Drive or Thumb Drive you know what I mean. And don't forget to say the size.

[guangdian]

i just have one move usb disk it's netac 128mb.it's very good using.

[Dawid]

I just recently bought a 512MB mp3 one off ebay. It's so awesome, really worth it, get about 9 hours of playing time from it and it has this awesome neat little LCD screen that actually displays the lyrics of the song as well as all the other information. I got it for pretty cheap, definately look into it. It's just slightly bigger than a normal flash memory stick. Another thing that's really awesome about it is that you can change the backlight of the LCD screen to seven, yes seven different colours. Highly recommended, I absolutely love it! Oh yes, I almost forgot, it's also a voice recorder and FM radio- you can also record the radio music. Off e-bay it's really not that expensive, in fact it's probably less than what you'd pay for a normal 512mb one in a retial store.

[hayri]

I own a Maxfield G-Flash. It has a size of 1 Gigabyte, and the best is, that it is handled as a USB-MP3-Player-Stick.

Take a look at it on www.maxfield.com

[shigajet]

Well, I have 4, and all of them were bought in Japan. Here's the list, if memory serves:

DiskOnKey (64MB)
IODATA ClipDrive (128MB)
Hagiwara USB (256MB)
Sony Pocket Bit (64MB)

[rvalkass]

I have one USB pen drive that holds 128MB, made by Crucial Memory. I paid £18 for it, but the prices have dropped alarmingly since then, now to about £10. I am thinking of upgrading to a 512MB / 1GB with MP3 player built in.

[melkonianarg]

i just have a zen touch which i have no trouble putting anything on, until one day my friend tried to put loads on that partition, and the information partition completely f*ck8d
up and therefore i do not want to use warranty incase they bugger up everything, including the music....and hopefully there willl come a time when i can format that partition so no more badness can be done on it (pardon the terrible english, i ahve just finished some GCSE's and I am not in the mood to string sentences together...)

[serverph]

you mean something like this?


that exists, by the way, and is not a hoax. forgot where i got it, but it's a novelty thumbdrive they are selling. still saving up some dough for one though. but i won't get that one above, it's just too freakish, like i have 6 fingers on one hand if i am caught holding it.

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Jaskoonline, on Jun 23 2005, 07:44 PM, said:

Do you use A USB Pen Drive or Thumb Drive you know what I mean. And don't forget to say the size.

yes i do...stick....512 mb

[ashiezai]

yes i do have a thumb drive .. it's also my mp3 player .. so essentially my mp3 player act like my thumb drive too .. it's a creative muvo 256mb .. i think thumb drive is not a new thing already .. and i think that it's a must ... as data can be stored more safely .. we do not have to worry about losing our data in the floppy disk age ... my floppy disk always got problem ...

[jerrylili]

hi man
thanks for asking.

HELL yeah i do. who doesn't these days!????? i have 2 of them. one is 128mb stick by kinston and teh other a dell one only 64mb - got for free though. they both very good and cheap.

advice: u knwo these ones we talk about are all FLASH drives, that are a soft mempry chip different from a Hard drive (HD), these flash ones can get really really really expenisve as u get biger, liek a 4Gb one can cost u around $400-$500. But they are very fast and are nto like HD where u have phiscal wrting in the stick. a HD mini drive a kangeroo one is about 4Gb and is only $200 i want one of those for masive file transer, note though, its a mini HD so if u drop on the floor bye bye to all ur data for ever, unlike flash... like i said its not phisycal storage so its in chip and drop no matter, but if u have a power surge in ur home like thinderstorm with the key in the usb there is change ur usb get electricutied and geuss wat? bye bye to all ur data, btu if u had a HD one in when THE electic stormed happend it my fry it but your data is still al written on teh mini HD so its nice and safe. Those are teh major differences and advantage and disadvatage of a HD anf flash USB drives so buy what ever you want but please, i say buy the mini HD they are not to much bigger and relative speaking better and safer. u know. Kangeroo ones are very good quality and they are realativly expansive but teh best in mini HD. you say... why not just get a small formfacto 20gb hardrive, btu they are pockt rippers so you woundn't want have thouse around i your pocket would you. kangeroo teh bets in quallity;)

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[Ralphie]

yea ive got one too. its a PNY but its only 128mb, but ive had it for a long time. so until i start putting large image files (especially photoshop files) or music on it, i wont have to upgrade for awhile.
these things are soo much more reliable than the old floppy disks. it used to be so bad when you are working on something and all of the sudden the floppy is corrupted and you cant open the stuff you saved. ive tried to take some of my old files off of my floppy disks but i cant becuase many are messed up. i am yet to have any problems whatsoever with my flash drive. its also nice to be able to have all of you files in one place, instead of forgetting which floppy you saved your project on.

and another good thing about them is that the price is pretty cheap also. especially if you find ones with rebates or whatever you can get a really good deal.

[Saint_Michael]

ueah i have one got it from a friend when i was IRAQ use it when i need to thing is tweaking out on me though but as i see it going i preditc that the floppy drive will bea memory in the future

[Hamtaro]

I have a Creative Nomad MuVo. It's only 64 MB, but that's almost all I need for now. It can also play mp3 and wma files. Since I can't get on the internet at my house, I use it so that I can use Firefox and some other programs anywhere. It was only $30, but it's still very useful. Much better and reliable than floppies, that's for sure.

[WeLoveFord]

i had to get one for school, it's a 128mb and i've never needed more.

[iwuvcookies]

no . i wish i had one. So i can work on my website or whatever anywhere so i don't get bored. It wouldbe useful for me. I could install programs on it and use it through tehre without having to install it on someones computer to use it.

[philltopia]

Yeah, they're the best way of moving data for me. CDs? Too big, too scratchable. Floppies? Don't even go there. Zip Drives? Easy to damage, declining. Internet? A close second, but not always availible.

I hope to boot Linux off mine soon.

[sonyguy]

I have an Integral 1GB USB flash drive. I think they are really good, once when I put it in though, it froze my computer. No problems other than that. It's quicker than burning my stuff to a CD anyway

[Ledd]

Yeah I got one its just a 32mb disgo one yet despite the small storage capacity
it has turned out to be one of my most loved accessories for my computer

[ruckusbag]

Verbatim 128mb thumbdrive. Feel ripped off because I got it 2 years ago for about 40 dollars except now they cost somewhere around 10-20...

[LeAnn Rimes My Angel]

I have two USB sticks. They are made by Crusial, and are called Flash Voyager. The sizes are both 1GB (1000 MB). They're great to have - reliable, fast, bigger and cheaper that floppies, and with a 10 year warranty, why not? 19 MB/s read, and 13 MB/s write. It's one of the fastest USB 2.0 devices out there, but NOT THE fastest.

[Noonster22]

Originally, I have thought a USB Pen drive was useless. Now, I beg to differ.

It is very versatille. You can interchange data between two operating systems (MAC + PC), and even give your friends some of your files.

It is a simple way to keep the information that you need, and that matters with you at all times. It is very handy.

Imagine this:

1) Carrying photos your mom wants to see on a "stick"
2) Carrying Homework for school on a "disk"
3) Transfering data, music from one computer to another via a "disk"

It has many other usage, but that can be a whole different topic.

Steer Clear.

[strawberrie]

Yup! I have a 32MB USB pen drive from Apacer. One of my friends' dad got a FREE 2GB USB drive from a meeting/convention thing for his business >_> I wish I had one with so much capacity, not that I'd need all the space or anything, still......

[arcanistherogue]

I have a little SD/MMC Card reader. I have both an MMC and an SD card, sizes 64 MB and 128 MB. I use them both in my digital camera but also for transporting files and moving things between Windows and Linux, as the removable media drive apears in both.

[lotrfan]

I have a Dell 256 MB thumb drive that I use to transport larger files from home to school or from home to a friends house. I also use it to keep copies of important things that I don't want to have lost. Keeping a backup is really easy with the thumb drive. It is dependable and very portable.