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I hate thumb drives!
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Zero_Hour on February 21, 2007, 02:38:36 pm ---It was always the dreaded "Click of Death" with Zip disk problems I encountered. The drive heads would actually crash into the platter and physically damage the disk, and then, in a worst case scenario, that damaged disk would be put into a functional drive and damage it. Wonderful stuff, and ultimately why I stopped buying Iomega products.
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Yep. After so much lost Grad work, I eventually got a $20 check from Iomega and a bunch of coupons towards future purchases as part of their class action lawsuit. Yeah, that made up for all the stuff I lost because of their products. :banghead:
boykster:
--- Quote from: Zero_Hour on February 21, 2007, 02:38:36 pm ---Maybe I should have suggested that they throw them in the laundry like boykster. :P
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Just a note....the laundry machine is NOT the recommended method of cleaning the USB connector ;D
Pretty much any portable data solution is going to have a risk of failure. When I was at university I lost numerous reports / papers due to floppy drive failure. At the UW computer labs we were not allowed to save data on teh hard drive and had to rely on floppies. We all know how reliable floppies are, right? :laugh2:
Iomega zip drives, yep, lost tons of work data to the click of death
Removable hard drives are great, but I've had one of those go south on me from being lugged around all the time. The smaller ones like Zero_Hour has are better, because you can keep em in your pocket or somewhere more safe than just in the bottom of your briefcase.
whoknowswho:
You mean things like this?
http://www.instructables.com/id/EH0Q7NYIG4EY95SU9L/
Tailgunner:
I've a 512 meg and a 1 gig I've used for a couple of years now, never had a problem with them. I see them as a transit solution, not a storage solution, and wouldn't lose anything if either of them died as I always leave a copy of whatever on the computer I'm copying from.
delta88:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on February 20, 2007, 08:49:27 pm ---I've had once thumb drive for the last 6 years or more...
...of course i've probably written/read from it less than 100 times total.
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......Isn't that about how old these drives are at the long end of the spectrum!!???............... :-\
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