I keep buying USB Flash Thumb drives

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:50 am

I keep buying USB Flash Thumb drives..
It because of all of those gift card that I got over the holidays...
Just bought a 2 GB one from Walmart for $17.00

MetalHead324 · Post by **MetalHead324** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:10 pm

want to send one my way? i only got a 1 GB kodak one lol... preferable pre loaded with a few programs

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:17 pm

How many do you have? What do you do with them. 1 is enough for me.

JiM_WEST · Post by **JiM_WEST** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:28 pm

1 is more than enough for me as well...

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:43 pm

I found a 2gb one a few months ago.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:54 pm

1- 128MB
1- 1GB
2- 4GB

got them all on sale

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:39 pm

1 - 8GB Corsair Survivor (the mac daddy)
2 - 4GB
2 - 1GB

MetalHead324 · Post by **MetalHead324** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:35 pm

yeah see man, i wanna be like them, have more crap than i need

. but no really, a new 2 GB+ would be nice

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:35 pm

I have a 2GB but I wish I would have bought a 4GB. That would be my limit.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:41 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:How many do you have? What do you do with them. 1 is enough for me.

Let's see

Three 16 MB memorex drives, they are old USB 1.1 type, they look like Old 9 Track Data Tapes. Cool but small capacity. Good for text files.

One 32 MB Lexar Jump drive, also old USB 1.1

One Super talent 512 MB USB 2.0 drive.

One Memorex 1 GB USB 2.0 drive that does U3 apps, I low level formatted that.

One Sandisk 1GB Cruser USB 2.0 with the retractable end. This also has those U3 apps, which I am keeping on this one.
Then my new one from Walmart Impact 2 GB 2.0 USB drive, which is actually labeled as "LEXAR" for the drive name.

Almost all of these I have encrypted them to keep some back up baby / family pics and small avi files, and some documents that I keep for redunency, in case something happens to my backup hard drive and the dvd back ups that I make.
I use this for encryption: http://www.truecrypt.org/ its for Windows XP, Vista and Linux... pretty good.

On one of the drives that I do not have encrypted, I use the free apps from http://www.portableapps.com Really nice free apps there.... even nice tech apps.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:39 am

got two 512's.. plenty for me

Comtrad · Post by **Comtrad** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:09 am

Got a 4gb Sandisk, and that's plenty enough. Picked it up on sale from Best Buy for $25

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:47 pm

Comtrad wrote:Got a 4gb Sandisk, and that's plenty enough. Picked it up on sale from Best Buy for $25

that's a nice price.. I bet that is like my 1 gb one with capless design, retractable plug

Comtrad · Post by **Comtrad** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:17 pm

Shinobi wrote:that's a nice price.. I bet that is like my 1 gb one with capless design, retractable plug

The Dude · Post by **The Dude** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:55 am

I've got 4 now, just bought a 4G, 2G, and a 1G Kingston Data Traveler with a $50 Future Shop Gift Card.
The 2G is bootable with NTFS Dos Pro, a copy of my XP Pro CD and all my drivers for my PC. At some point I plan on trying to install XP from this drive.
The 4G has IE7, MP11, Plus XP, Plus DME, Resource Kit, Dot Net and other assorted updates and extras for windows XP. For some reason I can't seem to make this drive bootable or I would install from it instead of the 2G.
The 1G has programs I use on it like anti-virus.
My old 2G has games on it.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:58 am

I think I have a 128 mb 1 as well.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:46 am

The Dude wrote:I've got 4 now, just bought a 4G, 2G, and a 1G Kingston Data Traveler with a $50 Future Shop Gift Card.
The 2G is bootable with NTFS Dos Pro, a copy of my XP Pro CD and all my drivers for my PC. At some point I plan on trying to install XP from this drive.
The 4G has IE7, MP11, Plus XP, Plus DME, Resource Kit, Dot Net and other assorted updates and extras for windows XP. For some reason I can't seem to make this drive bootable or I would install from it instead of the 2G.
The 1G has programs I use on it like anti-virus.
My old 2G has games on it.

I never thought of that.. putting all my hardware drivers on on stick..
Great idea

The Dude · Post by **The Dude** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:34 pm

Plugging in 1 thumbdrive sure beats swapping out a dozen or so Cd's after a clean install.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:21 pm

geeze...

I have
3 4gig
3 2gig
1 4gig minisd
2 2gig minisd
etc

I use them for movies and such. (Philips DVD player plays divx and has a usb slot)