Hereʻs another USB drive to consider, especially if youʻve security
concerns. Itʻs pricey, but consider the specs:
"IronKey uses only the highest quality components, delivering 10 to
20 times the average memory lifespan of a traditional flash drive."
hereʻs the spec sheet on their site: https://www.ironkey.com/personal
Joe.
On Aug 12, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Brian Hancock wrote:
Hi Rich,
I use the USB all the time for booting different operating systems
and demonstrating web servers and applications, especially with 8Gb
and large being so inexpensive these days…but the PortableApps.com
thing is something I did not know about but will soon be doing..
There is just one thing about a USB Flash disk is that they have a
finite life of about 100,000 writes and also that to reuse a bit of
data it has to first erase a block http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Flash_memory#Limitations . So if you are using it in a task which
has significant write operations (such as the example the article
quotes of an extra disk cache) then you can expect it to go belly
up at some stage. But for most things 100,000 writes is a damn
long time.
Bye
Brian
From: [email protected] [mailto:dataperf-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Bragonje
Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2009 3:09 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Web query connection to DP.
Hi Ed,
Found this in an article in a Tech Republic newsletter.
10 cool things you can do with a USB flash drive
http://downloads.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?
docid=1110169&tag=nl.e101
If you are not a subscriber, you won't be able to get to the
article, but sign up is easy and free.
Perhaps this might be a way you can experiment with a web application.
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9: Run a Web site from it
If you are a Web developer, you may be interested to know that with
Server2Go, you can easily run a Web server that supports Apache,
PHP, MySQL, and Perl right from a USB flash drive. You can use
Server2Go right out of the box without any installation. It runs on
all versions of Windows, supports most common browsers, and is
completely free. To a developer, the benefits of having a portable
Web server on a USB drive are numerous. For example, imagine being
able to carry a live Web site demo into a sales pitch meeting. For
more information about this package, visit the Server2Go site.
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Rich
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