Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 01:42 pm
the wonderful world of escalating technology
...so no one really needs a 16G USB Flash drive, right?
No. Of course not.
*sighs*
But
One one hand, progress is awesome. On the other--okay, how many of us need:
A.) A Bullet Proof Flash Drive (for all those international spies on my flist?)
B.) A Survivor Flash Drive (for all those survivalists with robust broadband connections in the wilderness?)
*squints at the first one* When I say "You will take my internet porn over my dead body", I am seriously not being literal.
Also, ordered a Passport External hard drive. I have no idea what to do with my other external if I can't get it to connect up. Theoretically, one can get the disc out for recovery, but that sounds disturbingly expensive.
OTOH--it will take me a really long time to replace what I have on there.
No. Of course not.
*sighs*
But
One one hand, progress is awesome. On the other--okay, how many of us need:
A.) A Bullet Proof Flash Drive (for all those international spies on my flist?)
B.) A Survivor Flash Drive (for all those survivalists with robust broadband connections in the wilderness?)
*squints at the first one* When I say "You will take my internet porn over my dead body", I am seriously not being literal.
Also, ordered a Passport External hard drive. I have no idea what to do with my other external if I can't get it to connect up. Theoretically, one can get the disc out for recovery, but that sounds disturbingly expensive.
OTOH--it will take me a really long time to replace what I have on there.
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From:First impulse: wave hands wildly, shouting, "I do! I do!"
Second impulse: what I *really* need is a 16 GB flash card for my camera.
Third impulse: realize that there's really nothing I could carry around on a 16 GB flash drive that I couldn't be carrying around on my 80GB iPod. (I *knew* I should have gotten the 160 gig one.)
Clearly, I need to be medicated.
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From:FOOL. OF COURSE I DO. My 2GB is already too full all the time, and the 40GB gigabeat portable HD I keep forgetting to put in my purse.
I could actually fit all of SJA, new DW, and TW on one drive I could carry IN MY PURSE. With, like, room left over.
O_O
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From:Still don't know why it has to be waterproof to 200 meters. Just make it squirrel-proof. With a homing beacon.
(Really, I think I'm onto something with the homing beacon. What's the point of being able to toss it into some whitewater if you can't find it afterwards?)
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From:This completely explains that drive.
(I kind of want a homing beacon too. Or like, if you whistle, it beeps or something.)
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From:I did resist temptation, though. Of course, it helped that it was so bloody expensive. In a couple of years, maybe? I really don't need it. Then again 8 years ago I never a PC with 2 GB hard drive memory seemed so huge and unnecessary.
*wish look with the external hard drive*
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From:I'm pretty sure I do. Where "need" is defined by "wants shiny technology I don't have." That works, right?
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From:[The first time was the ocean, I was chasing my shoes. Don't ask. The second time was a huge rain storm, and a lot of wind and it actually came out of bag and into a freaking lakes worth of water. I'm a moron.]
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From:If there's something wrong with your actual disk, yeah, it could be expensive. But if it's the connection, something in the plug, etc that's wrong, and nothing with the disk itself, then it's way easy. You can get some tiny screwdrivers and open up your external and take out the important parts, and then you get a "make your own external" kit which costs under twenty dollars, and follow the directions to put the important parts in that instead and then hook it up, and voila, new external. I actually did it with my old laptop's hard drive because the hard drive itself wasn't broken, just everything else, and it works fine and I was able to recover everything.
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From:Depending on where you go, it can be expensive.
But if your only problem is getting it to connect to your laptop, you can always go out and buy an external hard drive case (if you live near a Best Buy, go in and pick up one of the Dynex kits, they're reasonably priced and if this doesn't work, completely returnable as long as everything comes back with the receipt).
All you have to do is open the current hard drive case and unplug the hard drive from it's internal connections. Put it into the new case and viola! You now have a new power source for your hard drive as well as a new connection line as well.
If that doesn't work - and again, you live near a best buy - go in and ask one of the techs to do a backup of the drive. It's fairly inexpensive here in Canada (about $50), and I don't think the prices vary too much in the US. Besides that, if they can't get the information off the drive for you, most typically they'll refund all or part of the labour fee you paid.
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From:I have a small one (512MB, it sez), but it's loaded with Portable FireFox, AbiPortable (open source word processor), PidginPortable (multi-platform IM client), and Trillian. If it were useful, I'd stuff VLC on there along with movies and music and multimedia stuff like that.
Oh baby.
Re the drives you pointed out, how abou tthe IronKey (http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/99f1/) for the truly paranoid international spy? :D
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From:Also this conversation reminds me that I need to do round #2 of tinkering with my newish external hard drive, since I slacked off last weekend on the whole USB key file transfer thing and with no changed files on the desktop didn't bother updating the backup. And still haven't worked out what hoops I have to jump through to be able to use it with my laptop as a method of portable easy-update access to all my desktop's files, as being the second reason for the purchase last month.
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