I do most of my designwork at home and bring it with me next morning and load it onto my work computers some seven miles away. Down through the years I have used every imaginable removable device for this purpose, floppies, cd's etc. This weekend however I bought a 512 meg flash drive and I'm thrilled with its ease of use, speed and size for portability. I am one of the last to discover these gadgets or are any of you using them for similar uses. Curious to knoe your feelings
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
I recently posted about my newest jump drive. I had been using a 256MB but bought an 1.5gig one two weeks ago. Wonderful device!
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
I'm pretty happy with my remote access via PCanywhere because I can not only send my completed work ahead of me to the office, but when working at home, I often think up other work I could move forward on, & need to go get the files from the office machine. Based on how much I feel like working when I finally drag myself out of the shop, If I had to plan ahead what I will work on, I would not bring any work home.
Those drives sound great though & I expect I will have to have one someday. I have a few Sony Vaio desktop computers & thought I'd get some memory stix, since I have the drives already, but they are too expensive, & not nearly as compatible (with other computers) as the USB flash drives.
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
i just got a USB key flash drive, 256 K man its nice, FAST too. I use FTP to do most of my work but this key makes it easy to tote around to other computers too. nice
Posted by Arthur Vanson (Member # 2855) on :
Where's Pat when you need him? He's developed this revolutionary pinhole-pounce idea. Who knows, If he and OP were to get together on this, they might come up with punch-card technology?
It could happen! Posted by Raymond Quick (Member # 2649) on :
I use a Lexar JumpDrive Trio. It is a USB device simular to a thumb drive but excepts SD cards and Sony Memory Sticks. It is also great as I use a Pocket PC that uses a SD card, and hope to get a camera that also uses the SD card.
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
I just bought a SanDisk jump drive. Very cool. I can pop it into my Mac, then take the files to my PC. My Mac doesn't have a CD burner in it. I prefer burning CD's on the PC anyway because those jpg, eps, tiff, & AI files can be read on a MAc or a PC when I burn the CD on a PC.
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
Have had a 256 mb flash stick for about 3 or 4 months....awesome. It's like the size of a lipstick case (not that I use lipstick ) and you can save your files to it, stuff it in your pocket and take it anywhere.
Zip drives are history! Not everybody has a zip drive...but every computer has USB! Plus...no moving parts!
Enjoy it from day 1.
Posted by Scott Pagan (Member # 2507) on :
i have the Creative Labs MUVO 128mb. it's a flash drive, mp3 player with display screen, and a recorder (records *.wav files). the size is close to a BiC lighter.
i also try to keep a few blank CDs in the truck in case i need to save something larger.
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) and you can save your files to it, stuff it in your pocket and take it anywhere.