ita,
I might not need quite that much, but I need a larger flash drive than 64 GB. I want to store my itunes library on it.
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le nubian - Jan 09, 2013 3:23:39 pm PST #21801 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2013 3:27:25 pm PST #21802 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I want to store my itunes library on it.
For backup or transport or what?
NoiseDesign - Jan 09, 2013 3:44:13 pm PST #21803 of 25497
Our wings are not tired
My needs are all about transport and handing off large files.
Jessica - Jan 09, 2013 4:05:05 pm PST #21804 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've definitely had times when a 1-2TB flash drive would have come in handy at work. We don't ship drives as much as we used to, but when we need to we generally need over 500GB of storage.
le nubian - Jan 09, 2013 4:20:16 pm PST #21805 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita,
transport. I carry a macbook air around and I would like the itunes library and backup to be a bit more transportable than my current external hd.
tommyrot - Jan 09, 2013 4:44:03 pm PST #21806 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Some company makes a battery powered wifi HD.
Much bigger than a flash drive, of course, but since it's wireless you just need to have it nearby.
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2013 6:06:31 pm PST #21807 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I view flash drives as cheap temporary storage, like floppy disks, not like archives. This is possibly because my last annoying data loss was a flash drive that went tits up.
It has been a long time since I evaluated relative reliability of the drives currently in use. It's been a while since I actually properly evaluated and compared.
sarameg - Jan 09, 2013 6:15:02 pm PST #21808 of 25497
For my work, we have to use TB drives for data transfer for some stuff. Our internet pipe ain't big or reliable enough (which is appalling in itself. But even when we hook into I2, fedexing drives is more reliable.)
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2013 6:24:50 pm PST #21809 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
For my cutover on the 27th, we have to copy maybe 1/2 a TB between servers in the same server room on the same VLAN, and apparently they've been doing at least a two step process involving a trip to the workstation connected via VPN until I started complaining that it can't possibly be the best way to do it.
It's not something that can be fixed by a drive--I was just reminded when transfer came up. But I am still perplexed at what people would settle for--we have 9 hours of allowed downtime a week, and that's 4 hours of watching a progress bar crawl, and all people were going to do was grumble.
IT'S A MOTHERFUCKING NETWORK ACCESSIBLE STORAGE DEVICE. BOTH FOLDERS, SAME NAS.
Jesus.
Jon B. - Jan 10, 2013 4:02:00 am PST #21810 of 25497
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I wish I knew more about the Sprint network where I am -- I know people have issues with AT&T in our building. Any thoughts?
I used to have a Virgin phone and now have an iPhone with AT&T. I've generally been MUCH happier with AT&T than Sprint, and not just because the Virgin phone I had kept freezing up. I would regularly have problems receiving texts, whereas now I always get them quickly.