A few things regarding USB flash-drives

A few things regarding USB flash-drives

Not so long ago I got my first-ever USB flash-drive. It was given to me by my mother, while she got it as a gift and since she doesn't have a computer at home (only at the job), she don't actually need it. In particular, it's a so-called USB2.

0 flash-drive with an official name JetFlash, TS256MJF2B, sn: 126465-0608 with capacity of 256 MBs. On the envelopment it also says that it has the following properties: 'Ultra-Speed function', 'Boot-Up function', 'PC-Lock function', 'Recovery function', 'Security function' (password-protection), and 'Data retention: up to 10 years', 'Erase cycles: >100.000 times'.

Well, and because of those last two specifications mentioned above (the one anout '10 years', and on the other hand only '100.000 erase-cycles'), I've started to wonder the folowing. Do people in general use it for backing-up things; meaning for back-ups of more or less small things, which are too big for a 3.5 floppy, and too small for a common 700 MB CD-ROM, or for more or less 'static' storing of collection of programs and stuff things on it, for instance for a so-called 'malware-cleaning/removal toolkit' etc. You see, it's that I would l

ike for this device to work as long as possible. So in my case, non-stop backing-up of things somehow doesn't 'fit into the picture', since this is in my opinion much too stressful for the USB drive itself (because in that case, it would be constantly used/written-to); so again, I was curious back then, how do folks in general use it etc., but after a few comments in one of my blogs and in a thread that I've opened on Ars Technica forums, I now know all about it. But of course, any additional comments are always welcomed.

P.S. -- For more info about this, please see the '6.5.2006' entry on my website's 'events7.html' page: http://tadej-ivan.50webs.com/other/events/events7.html.

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About the author: Tadej (Ivan) is a free-lance writer and web-developer from Slovenia, Europe, while his main hobbies for the past few years are computing in general and web-development.

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