USB pen drives

[Freelance Superhero]

friend of mine recently got a laptop without a floppy drive, so he was thinking about just getting one of them USB drives to transport little files like word documents and the like.

any advice/warnings/praises on this device? i've never had any experience with them, so i was a bit curious myself.

and (at the risk of having this moved into the got|deals forum) if they're worth getting, could any recommend a good place to get them?

thanks bunches... :)

[GilbertsGrape]

what os does your friend use on both PC's most of those if you have XP you dont need any drivers but if you have 98 or 95 it will require drivers and none that i know of will work with dos so you could not make one a bood disk

[Bires]

check out www.tigerdirect.com for good deals. The PNY they had had a rebate..the 128MB ended up being $35 shipped.

Also, get the biggest one you can afford. I LOVE mine, and use it all the time. Unfortunately, it's only 64MB, so I need to replace it with a larger one.

[coleslaw]

My girlie got me one of the Creative Nomad Muvo MP3 players, which stores data on a USB stick. It's 128 MB, so I can store at least 2 full albums of good quality and some other documents etc. Very cool. :thumb:

[bachviet]

I got a 64MB USB pen drive from Fry's for $14.99. I could have waited and gotten it for cheaper..

[gear02]

I got one when they were very new. Got a 16Mb one for like $50...yes...it was back then.

I find them to be great, as long as you get one that's a good size. They're automatically detected on Win2K and XP and with 98 I believe mine came with a driver disk that you had to load before running.

The MuVo is pretty neat. It's both a MP3 player and a flash hard drive. It's a tad pricey for the size, but it's worth it if you're into such things. Try newegg.com as they have good prices. I tend to avoid tigerdirect for its past sketchiness, but that's just me.

If you need larger drives (512Mb sticks are very expensive), you can consider a portable hard drives like this:

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=290176&pfp=BROWSE

[Freelance Superhero]

ooh thanks for all the feedback!

yeah he's running win xp, and someone showed him the tigerdirect deals, but the most recent rebate ended o march 31st! JUST missed it...

i'll let him know what yall have told me so far...

:)

[mcs328]

I just bought a Lexar 256 Jumpdrive USB2.0 from CompUSA for like 70 bucks plus tax and after rebate. Works very well. I believe another site (amazon?) or Microcenter is selling it for 80 after rebate. the rebate is 20 bucks off but I notice the websites use the same rebate and either add or photoshop their logo on to it.

[GilbertsGrape]

why not just get a cheap CF card and reader.

[speedracer120]

I second checking out newegg.com. My dad travels constantly and wanted me to get him one of those and he uses that thing for everything.

Just remember to use the "safely remove hardware" option from the taskbar because I have seen him lose some of the data he was working on when he hurriedly try to transfer data from notebook to desktop. It wasn't a complete wipe of the drive but things that were changed during the session that he should have closed.

[GilbertsGrape]

my mission critical syatem at work is running Win 95 rev b

the most stable os according to our software / hardware vendor

[Bires]

Originally posted by GilbertsGrape
Win 95 rev b [is] the most stable os according to our software / hardware vendor

WHA?!?! :confused: I feel you are being misled by your vendor. If he/she SERIOUSLY feels Win95 to be the most stable, I would look for another vendor.

[Bires]

Originally posted by GilbertsGrape
why not just get a cheap CF card and reader.

This does make a lot of sense, I have considered doing exactly this with my CF reader and CF cards. The nifty thing about the pen drives is how small and robust they are. Many are advertised as *keychains*


((Funny...memory as a keychain...remember when we used to use SIMMS as keychains?)) ;)

[GilbertsGrape]

here is the update to make it Y2k complient

http://www.swupdate.vtel.com/LC/1-10-19.htm

lol
anyways if you buy a new LC model the only os u can get on get is win 95. the Vgate was just upgraded from Win 3.11 to win 95 just a few mo. ago

[GilbertsGrape]

http://www.ktln.com/vtel/products.htm

we have several of the LC5000 's

and some of the Desktop systems but we wher able to make tehm run on Win 98 systems.. http://www.ktln.com/vtel/sstation.htm

if we converted the other system to anyhting above 95 we cant keep our service contract. actualy it will not even work on 98 on the LC5000 system.... well anyways.....

[sbp]

Originally posted by GilbertsGrape
my mission critical syatem at work is running Win 95 rev b

the most stable os according to our software / hardware vendor C'mon man April 1st was 3 days ago. :heh:

[Joshua]

:eek: :nono: :bonk: :puke:


Originally posted by GilbertsGrape
my mission critical syatem at work is running Win 95 rev b

the most stable os according to our software / hardware vendor