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I hate thumb drives!
FrizzleFried:
Have you looked in to those little tiny-HDs? Not sure if they are any better though.
missioncontrol:
I use one of my thumbdrives daily on multiple PC's and have never had a problem with it. I did lose the data I had on a 256 PNY stick a few semesters ago when I bumped the drive while putting in another one, but was able to reformat it with a program the PNY tech sent me. I carry 3 different drives with me daily... My 2 gig has several portable apps I use at different machines, my 1 gig that carries my System Project, and the good ol' 256K drive which is primarily used on computers I am working on and repairing.
ChadTower:
Heh, so familiar. When I was in college it was Zip drives everyone complained about. Seemed every semester I'd have 2-3 zip disks go dead on me for no reason and complicate getting projects in on time. Some classes required us to save our lab work on zip disk and if we didn't have a PC at home to back up on, or if it corrupted too soon, we'd just lose our project and have to start over. I remember losing a texture mapping project I'd put like 15 hours into and having to recreate it in a 30 hour straight lab session that almost put me in the hospital with a caffeine overdose.
shmokes:
I've never had a problem with a thumb drive and I use them all the time and I treat them terribly -- absolutely never use the safely remove option. I just pull them out when I'm finished. I mean, I don't pull them in the middle of a file transfer, but I don't eject them properly before pulling either. Just lucky so far, I suppose.
Kaytrim:
I have 6 or 7 of these bad boys floating around from 32M to 1G in size. I use them quite a bit for various things including a portable mame system. Never had a speck of trouble except when I had one pluged in while formating a computer. I mistakenly formated the thumb drive instead of the hard drive. Now instead of a 128M thumb drive it holds 120M. ::)
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