35 bux is not a horrible price, if you look around at Newegg or Fry's you can find em under 30 with free shipping. I bought a couple of 8 gig microsdhc cards I use with my phone, they were ten bux a peice.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Tony B <ton...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, flash drives - or hard drives of any type - can and do fail > suddenly and without warning. That's not a problem if you're just > using them to transport files. And it shouldn't be a problem if you're > doing regular backups to them, since you should be warned of failure > when writing data. But do not under any circumstances save data to a > drive and expect it to be there sometime in the future! > > My current C drive images are about 10gb, so I guess I could keep ONE > on a flash drive. Darned inconvenient to have to leave one plugged in, > or to plug/unplug every day to do a daily backup. Also, you really > need multiple daily backups, since you can never quite be sure how far > back you'll need to go to restore. > > PS On this specific drive you didn't mention price. Currently, 16gb > flash drives run about $35. > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Jeff Miles <jmile...@charter.net> wrote: > > I haven't really been paying attention to this thread, but now I > > think I should have. My son, for his birthday, wants a flash drive. I was > > looking at the 16gig one they have at Costco.com and here are the specs > from > > that page. > > > > Capacity: 16GB > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
