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  • Large capacity flash drive – all a much of a muchness?
  • letmetalktomark
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    Afternoon All,

    I appreciate you reading this most exiting of posts 🙂

    I currently back up my computer stuff to an external hard drive (Time Machine). To be honest I only really have music and pictures.

    Whilst this may seem like expecting the worst I wanted to back up my pictures to a third medium ….. just in case.

    Looking at getting a 8gb plus drive.

    Any suggestions/recommendations?

    Cheers,

    MArk

    jeffl
    Full Member

    Some are slightly slower/faster at reading and writing data. But I’ve always just got them when I’ve seen a good. Deal Not too worried about the speed of a thumb drive as it’s not normally huge files just an assortment of smaller files that you access now and again. Well for me it is anyway.

    derp
    Free Member
    breatheeasy
    Free Member

    Write to DVD maybe as the ‘third way’?

    brassneck
    Full Member

    I’ve had a few cheap ones as freebies that have corrupted for no good reason, so if you want another backup I’d pay a couple of quid more for something branded.

    derp
    Free Member

    Write to DVD maybe as the ‘third way’?

    Physical media? Pffft….go back to the noughties granddad!

    letmetalktomark
    Full Member

    Cheers for the comments folks.

    Had thought about the DVD way but would prefer flash drive.

    Will look into the branded ones now 🙂

    cp
    Full Member

    plenty of them here. unless you regularly transfer huge (Gb’s worth) of data, it’s not worth worrying about speeds.

    lots here:-

    http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/default.php?cat=6&type=6070&man=0&filterwords=8gb&go=SEARCH&comp=&page=1&sort=3a

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Avoid random brands, they will fail. Stick to Sandisk etc.

    Avoid excessively cheap bargains, especially from Chinese eBay types. Counterfeit cards are very common, as are cards that have been hacked to report a higher capacity than they actually are (so your 16Gb card works fine until you go past 64Mb, then it craps out).

    nickjb
    Free Member

    Just bought 16Gb sandisk flash drive for £13 on Play.com, seems OK.

    kimbers
    Full Member

    i have one of these put it thru the washing machine twice now 😳

    still works fine!

    CountZero
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