I remember a few years ago when I was at uni, flash drives were all the rage, but then people kept leaving the drive plugged into the computer and walking away causing them to lose their work, they used to be notoriously reliable back then and would die suddenly for some reason.
My brother works for a pharmaceutical company, and he represents many different brands and his car is always full of these cheap 2GB flash drives that they give him to hand over to clients in the medical profession. It seems that companies have moves away from giving out branded station to give out branded computer equipment, mousepads, screenwipes and USB drives.
I've had too many incidences of flash drives getting corrupt and dying on me, I have a habit of never disconnceting drives the way I should, going to taskbbar and ejecting the drive. I have played around with transferring files using Windows homegroup straight from my desktop computer to laptop, without needing a USB
I read this article on pcmech recently here http://www.pcmech.com/article/death-of-the-thumb-drive/
Which raises some interesting questions, and provides some valid points, has anyone played around with "NAS" drives, are they as good as they claim to be?
With the homegroup file transfer it requires both my computers to be turned on and connected to the LAN, I think a Nas setup might be more useful for me as it will be always on, and perhaps at some later stage I could get a HTPC which will enables movies to be played from the NAS onto tv.
My brother works for a pharmaceutical company, and he represents many different brands and his car is always full of these cheap 2GB flash drives that they give him to hand over to clients in the medical profession. It seems that companies have moves away from giving out branded station to give out branded computer equipment, mousepads, screenwipes and USB drives.
I've had too many incidences of flash drives getting corrupt and dying on me, I have a habit of never disconnceting drives the way I should, going to taskbbar and ejecting the drive. I have played around with transferring files using Windows homegroup straight from my desktop computer to laptop, without needing a USB
I read this article on pcmech recently here http://www.pcmech.com/article/death-of-the-thumb-drive/
Which raises some interesting questions, and provides some valid points, has anyone played around with "NAS" drives, are they as good as they claim to be?
With the homegroup file transfer it requires both my computers to be turned on and connected to the LAN, I think a Nas setup might be more useful for me as it will be always on, and perhaps at some later stage I could get a HTPC which will enables movies to be played from the NAS onto tv.
