Flash Drive Nightmare

[Phill Fenton]

I don’t have many flash drives, but if it was a competition for who’s got the most pairs of shoes…….My daughter would surely win 😕

[Robert Lambie]

ahhh USB sticks… I had 3 within 2 weeks, each broke loosing me lots of info and never went back to using them.
So maybe I had most in shortest amount of time? :lol1: 😉

Do you not use any virtual storage facilities Nancy? That’s what I do using the likes of dropbox.com so much easier and I don’t worry about losing or breaking my USB stick.

I am guessing you prefer these or you would already have moved. And possibly quicker for you being mainly involved in printing and the files being huge.

[Chris Wool]

are they yours or left behind by customers. never bought one myself but have a small collection.

[Nancy Wannous]

Hi Rob
I use dropbox and you send it and the big TB DRIVES BUT these still work to transfer filea as well and collected over 7 yrs or so
I even still have zip drive lol
🙂
No Chris they mine 🙂 they still work never dropped them not once they dIe quickly if u have put on your key ring 😉

[David Rogers]

…must have put 3 or 4 through the washing machine…(along with several mobile phones!)…all still worked afterwords.

[Martin Pearson]

They might all still work Nanncy but how many of them do you still use is the question lol. If you have collected them over 7 years then I bet some of them are tiny & not big enough for the sort of work you do today. I have a few lying about that really should go in the bucket, Got 2 or 3 at about 256/512 meg that haven’t been out the draw for years. Don;t think anything I use now is under 8 gig.
Do SD cards that plug into a USB port count cause I’ve got a few of those knocking about as well.

[Gordon Connelly]

Is this conversation really about USB sticks or is it some sort of code for something or a metaphor? If it’s really about USB sticks, over the last 7 years, I’ve probably went through about 40. If by USB sticks you mean illicit affairs with fruity women I met on the Songs of Praise forum, probably about the same.

I should try and put pictures up or something to prove it but I never thought I’d ever be involved in a conversation like this… A lot of them you use for a day or two, they let you down, you dump them and move on. You wouldn’t think to take a picture. Same with the USB’s…

[Ian Stewart-Koster]

Interesting topic…
We’d have 20+ of them here probably.
The smallest is a 128 meg stick from years ago when it cost a fortune (like about the Aussie equivalent of 45 pounds), right up to 8 gig sticks (currently about 4 pounds equivalent cost each)
Touch wood, but none of them has died yet.
I have three biggish external hard drives for backup purposes, and use the sticks for data transfer between PCs for plotting, routing design or whatever.
Sure, we could network them all, or use the wireless router, but copying the file to a stick and transferring it across has been an amazing safeguard at times…
You lose a few, and 3 months later they turn up under a pile of papers!

Maybe we’re ‘old fashioned’ but it works for us!