Hello Eve,
On Saturday 07 May 2005 1:22 pm, you wrote:
> Is there anything important to know about these? Or can you just go
> for the cheapest? I've looked at ten million reviews and I can't
> for the life of me figure out whether any of it means anything...
>
> Also, how long can you reasonably expect data to stay intact on one
> of those? Do people mostly use them for transfer, or for temporary
> backup too?
>
> Best,
>
> -- Eve
I have and use several of these devices from 64Mb to 1Gb, in various
flavours, USB1, USB2, MP3/MP4 players and different manufactures, on
various flavours of operating systems, without any real issues. I
even have a complete bootable Linux system on one. Its surprising
what you can shoehorn into 64Mb.
Price tends to be whatever the vendor can get away with. Here in the
UK, I paid just under �7.00 for a 64Mb key. Branded "Atmos" It is
my smallest key size. My oldest key, just over two years, is one
that I use most, and that has data on it, that I put on from it
being new, that I use every day !
Although I do keep CD backups of any data that I would not want to
loose, if one packed in, I would just throw it away. Its just not
worth the hassle of returning it under warranty.
HTH
--
Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
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