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Title: Pen Drives.
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 12 September 2008, 19:12:16

I need some Pen Drives maybe a couple of 8GB or maybe bigger.  Just seen this but wondered if any of you know of a better bargain.

TIS.   :y :y


http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/newsletter?productId=30820&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=8GB+Arianet+Silver+Shadow+Pen+Drive&utm_campaign=newsletter120908

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 12 September 2008, 19:17:21

not practical, easy to loose or forget  :(

try 80GB pocket usb disks..much better and hard to loose :y

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 12 September 2008, 19:19:58

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not practical, easy to loose or forget  :(

try 80GB pocket usb disks..much better and hard to loose :y

Pen Drive will be locked in a safe with my Will and personal data on it, hard drive is overkill.

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: Danny on 12 September 2008, 19:22:45

i will be following this thread, would like one myself that can live with my car keys, i dont plan on holding important info on it though

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 12 September 2008, 19:22:57

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not practical, easy to loose or forget  :(

try 80GB pocket usb disks..much better and hard to loose :y

Pen Drive will be locked in a safe with my Will and personal data on it, hard drive is overkill.

not very different costs..hard disk, hard disk, hard disk ;D

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: Danny on 12 September 2008, 19:26:55

you can only buy one 8gb from that website at that price, which is a shame, i tried to get 10 :(

Cem i've not heard of these USB pocket disks  :-/

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 12 September 2008, 19:33:12

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you can only buy one 8gb from that website at that price, which is a shame, i tried to get 10 :(

Cem i've not heard of these USB pocket disks  :-/

They are laptop drives in cases and are powered from the UDB socket as far as I know.

I have 2 or 3 upstiars, down side they are mechaical and cant deal with the odd knock that a Pen Drive can handle.

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 12 September 2008, 19:35:24

it fits inside your pocket..you can carry even big films ..and photo archieves

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13544

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/hard-disk-drives/trekstor-datastation-pocket-t-ub-250-gb/

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/4978195/LaCie-250GB-Mobile-Disk-USB-2-0-External-Hard-Drive/Product.html

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 12 September 2008, 19:36:05

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products?search=2.5%26%2334%3B&p_order=price_asc&p=

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Drive+Bays/External+(For+IDE+Drive)/+AKASA+P2+2.5%27%27+USB+IDE+Enclosure?productId=23390

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/Laptop/60GB+Seagate+Momentus+2.5%22+Hard+Drive+?productId=31994

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 12 September 2008, 19:39:08

actually this is a notebook drive with usb converter in a box ..

mostly faster than normal flash disks

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 12 September 2008, 19:52:04

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you can only buy one 8gb from that website at that price, which is a shame, i tried to get 10 :(

Cem i've not heard of these USB pocket disks  :-/

They are laptop drives in cases and are powered from the UDB socket as far as I know.

I have 2 or 3 upstiars, down side they are mechaical and cant deal with the odd knock that a Pen Drive can handle.

Considerably more reliable data storage than a flash drive though!

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: jereboam on 13 September 2008, 12:25:56

You can easily pick up an 80 or 100Gb 2½" drive on eBay, and the cases to fit them in are very cheap.  I've got a few of them.  One has my music collection on it - used to take it to work, attach it to my workstation and listen through headphones.  Saved carting CDs about.  Of course, it's not as portable as an MP3 player, but you can cram a lot of music onto a 100Gb drive. :)

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: dbug on 13 September 2008, 14:33:27

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I need some Pen Drives maybe a couple of 8GB or maybe bigger.  Just seen this but wondered if any of you know of a better bargain.

TIS.   :y :y


http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/newsletter?productId=30820&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=8GB+Arianet+Silver+Shadow+Pen+Drive&utm_campaign=newsletter120908

Yeah thats a good deal.  Pen drives pretty much indestructable - managed to run over one once, right mess, still works tho :y

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 13 September 2008, 15:01:20

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I need some Pen Drives maybe a couple of 8GB or maybe bigger.  Just seen this but wondered if any of you know of a better bargain.

TIS.   :y :y


http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/newsletter?productId=30820&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=8GB+Arianet+Silver+Shadow+Pen+Drive&utm_campaign=newsletter120908

Yeah thats a good deal.  Pen drives pretty much indestructable - managed to run over one once, right mess, still works tho :y

Rugged yes, reliable storage no....

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: theolodian on 13 September 2008, 18:58:22

Is the safe fire protected really well?  Maybe just DVD-R's if not a risk of high temps?

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: iggy21uk on 13 September 2008, 19:21:22

I use this to Encrypt the pen drive I use and some date on my
hard drive. And its free

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: theolodian on 13 September 2008, 19:26:51

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I use this to Encrypt the pen drive I use and some date on my
hard drive. And its free

http://www.truecrypt.org/

This is another free option;

http://www.gpg4win.org

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 13 September 2008, 19:28:11

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Is the safe fire protected really well?  Maybe just DVD-R's if not a risk of high temps?

The case I have is actually a document case and is fireproof for 30 mins to quite a high temprature etc.

There will be hard copies of documents in relevent places and then word docs, xls and other format docs, on Pen drive, CDR and hard drive back ups.

The thread was only intended to see if Pen Drives could be bought at better prices. :y

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: theolodian on 13 September 2008, 19:33:13

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Is the safe fire protected really well?  Maybe just DVD-R's if not a risk of high temps?

The case I have is actually a document case and is fireproof for 30 mins to quite a high temprature etc.

There will be hard copies of documents in relevent places and then word docs, xls and other format docs, on Pen drive, CDR and hard drive back ups.

The thread was only intended to see if Pen Drives could be bought at better prices. :y

Pen drives are probably your best bet.  Paper is still legible after being singed, most electronic data medums are not.

Title: Re: Pen Drives.
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 13 September 2008, 19:35:51

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Is the safe fire protected really well?  Maybe just DVD-R's if not a risk of high temps?

The case I have is actually a document case and is fireproof for 30 mins to quite a high temprature etc.

There will be hard copies of documents in relevent places and then word docs, xls and other format docs, on Pen drive, CDR and hard drive back ups.

The thread was only intended to see if Pen Drives could be bought at better prices. :y

Pen drives are probably your best bet.  Paper is still legible after being singed, most electronic data medums are not.

Will be trying to cover as many options as possible in some cases.  Also on a couple of documents they will be laminited as well to try to avoid water/damp damage.  :y