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[Denthúl]

Which for a brief period replaced the good old floppy disks.
I just bought an 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive for 18 bucks. Heck I can backup my entire OS on it and still have room to spare!

8GB is tiny.

I still have a Zip drive. I also still put floppy drives in all my computers

Wakey wakey: the 21st century is here!

8GB is pretty big in my book, especially at that price. I don't even know what the max size is at the moment. Anybody have a 64GB or bigger? And what did you pay for it?

Yes. And floppy disks have saved 90% of the computers that my colleagues have brought in for me to fix

I actually have a 64GB Kingston DataTraveller. And a 32GB Corsair Flash Voyager. And a 16GB Corsair Flash Voyager. And I did not pay a penny for any of them

So, there ARE 64GB monster jump drives available, eh? They are still of a small form factor, right? How much is the going rate for those, do you know?

Yep. And it's fairly small. Three inches in length, maybe? This one in particular is listed at £90 at various places, but I think that the school paid less for them (if I can dig one out, I'll check an invoice). Whilst I wouldn't go out and buy one myself, it's very handy to have lying around. I store basic disk images for all three of my computers on this one and still haven't reached half-capacity

For the sake of comparison, I opened this one up and (very carefully) peeled the rubber casing off of the Flash Voyager. The PCBs are pretty much the same size, it's just different types of enclosures that are used. If you were actually considering getting one, I'd stay away from the Corsairs unless they're significantly cheaper. When I first got the 16GB one, it lasted for about three days and then I plugged it in to my work PC, got nothing from it and then when I went to unplug it ended up burning my hand because it had gotten so hot >.<

[7UpJordan]

My dad used to have one for the old office PC. It's probably still lying around somewhere in the office with all sorts of other spare bits and bobs.

[myownalias]

I've never personally have a zip drive but the office I worked in backed up their vital files onto the 100MB disks right upto 2002. At the time I still had a Commodore Amiga A1200 which had a massive 340MB of HD space so 100MB on a portable disk seemed like voodoo compared to the 720k formatted Amiga disks.

[bud]

yeah the title is about Zip drives but then went on to talk about usb flash drives. so what are you trying to say about Zip drives? but i have a portable hard drive that fits fine in my pocket thats 160gb! I use it for my timemachine as well as for my work. but its not 18 USD.

The implied conclusion is that an 8GB jump drive replaces up to 80 Zip disks (depending on the capacity of the disks you use) and over 6000 floppy disks in a very transportable small form factor at a fraction of the cost.

evolution baby.

[darwin dali]

yeah the title is about Zip drives but then went on to talk about usb flash drives. so what are you trying to say about Zip drives? but i have a portable hard drive that fits fine in my pocket thats 160gb! I use it for my timemachine as well as for my work. but its not 18 USD.

The implied conclusion is that an 8GB jump drive replaces up to 80 Zip disks (depending on the capacity of the disks you use) and over 6000 floppy disks in a very transportable small form factor at a fraction of the cost.

evolution baby.

In this case probably more Intelligent Design, baby

[myownalias]

Of course the next evolution will be a chip implanted in your body that connects to a wireless network to transfer files back and forth between your computer and body!

You'll never forget or lose your memory stick again!

[Gaz]

for backups at my company we use 400gb tapes.

and we usualy go though about 10 a weekend.

[bud]

for backups at my company we use 400gb tapes.

and we usualy go though about 10 a weekend.

why not use TB hd?

[Jensonb]

for backups at my company we use 400gb tapes.

and we usualy go though about 10 a weekend.

why not use TB hd?

Expense.

[Gaz]

for backups at my company we use 400gb tapes.

and we usualy go though about 10 a weekend.

why not use TB hd?

expensive for one since the tapes like £15 and a server grade disks are just silly money for that size.

and we can backup the data ourself and move it to an off site store you can't really move discs about.

[Denthúl]

for backups at my company we use 400gb tapes.

and we usualy go though about 10 a weekend.

why not use TB hd?

Bad practice, man.

It's much, much easier to damage a hard drive by moving it around (unless it's solid-state, but then you can't get the necessary capacity and what you can get it very, very expensive anyway) than it is to damage a tape. Additionally, they're quite expensive and you use several tapes per server. You'd only get two tapes-worth of stuff on to one 1TB hard drive at four or five times the cost. Then there's storage - you need to be able to store everything safely off-site in a fire- and flood-proof safe.

[bud]

well there ya go