Those portable USB flash drives

[mangled]

Does anyone use those little portable USB flash/jump drives? They typically come in 128mb, 256mb or more. I've been looking at them and thought it might be good to have one on my keychain...but not really sure just how useful it is to have one...anyone can't live without it and explain how you find it useful?

 

[Sid59]

prolly best for people.

1. in college and want to take their projects with them. papers, photos, music, anything that can't be stored on floppy but don't want to make a cd.

2. people with jobs that require them to take work home.

 

[suklee]

Ive had one for a few months and it's fantastic. First of all, i made it bootable with some rescue utils that come in very handy troubleshooting machines at work and friend's machines (my own as well, since it doesnt have a floppy drive). Also I carry a lot of data with me , ie word / excel documents. It's great to shuffle data between home and work with a device this small. Not to mention USB2 is fast...
I lent it to my gf a few weeks ago so that she can bring a bunch of photos into work. After that she was sold! I've since bought her the exact same usb flash drive and she's been finding it useful as well.

 

[Jumpem]

Use mine all the time. I got a 256mb Lexar for $53 at CompUSA.

 

[vansouza]

What utility did you use to make it bootable? Or how did you do it?

 

[zephyrprime]

What utility did you use to make it bootable? Or how did you do it?

Your bios has to support boot from USB. Then your format it so it's bootable like a bootable floppy.

 

[Ionizer86]

I use mine a lot between home and school on my home pc, school pc's and Pocket PC. Very useful.

 

[tweeve2002]

I use a 1GB CF MicroDrive and a USB 2 reader as my USB flash drive...Dont want to spend more money to get a flash drive when i got a huge CF card for the digital camera.

 

[tkistre]

I have a small computer business and these little flash drives have really come in handy. Like "Kai920" said, you can make them bootable, but I mainly use mine for utilities to work on other computers. I've actually had to work on a few computers that their CDRom was broke and floppies are too small to put a utility programs on, so the flash drive worked great.

 

[labrat25]

great in college... all the computers on campus have WinXP or OS X so everything is easy

and i worry a bit less about forgetting an important paper

 

[grrl]

I just got the $10 64-meg one from Kingston. I always transfer files from my home machine to my office machine and this is much better than using a floppy.

 

[Elcs]

My mobile phone takes MMC's for storing/playing MP3's.

I bought a USB MMC/SD card reader which I use at home and at University. So simple to use.

 

[cockeyed]

Great little device! I leave it plugged into a rear USB port and have my backup software set to do scheduled automatic backups of my data files to it. Works great and I always have a current data backup if my HDD should fail or get corrupted.

 

[zod]

Anyone know of one of these with a removable SD Card? That way i'd be able to pop it into whatever portable device I have as well as a USB slot. I know the old Sandisk Cruzer had this feature, but it's quite big and old.