I have to hand over a load of data to someone in the next few weeks, so I bought one of these.
It is a bit over an inch long, and my one is 16 Gigabytes, but they make them the same size as this at over 100 GBs.
To give you an idea of what my little 16 GB will take, it is over four full-length feature films, with sound.
It cost about £12. The data is transferred in about one or two seconds simply with a drag and drop.
It lives on my keyring, and I don't notice the extra volume in my pocket. Charlton Heston or Brian Blessed isn't screaming to be let out of my trousers.
I am so impressed but - there again - I am impressed with anything that is bigger than me.
I've bought two of these portable drives with the intention of uploading hundreds of photographs to free up space on my hard drive. I'm so afraid of losing the data I've yet to use them. Chances are my computer will crash and burn and I'll lose the lot first.
ReplyDelete~Jo
Don't worry, all you are doing when loading up the little things is copying. The original will stay on your machine for as long as it stays working. It's quite hard to completely delete stuff - as many convicted child-pornographers will testify.
DeleteI have a few of these. I remember once retrieving my oldest from the airport, and putting a very heavy suitcase into the Compact Royce. When I asked him what was in it, he replied "I've brought my entire record collection with me"; he then showed me a similar object. Oh how we laughed.
ReplyDeleteHere in Blighty, many people are reverting to vinyl as the preferred method of listening to music. Personally, I haven't got the space.
DeleteAren't they amazing? Eight years ago I bought a state of the art 'mini 2gb' for about two hundred AU$ and for me that was a major investment.
ReplyDeleteThat said when it comes to media, I still work from CD's, records (not tapes no more) and archives - scrawlings on bits of paper are still better than digital for fusty historians it seems.