Rugged USB flash stick

[Felicity Meakins]

I have a Lacie Rugged Hard Drive - 250GB. It has mostly only received office
use so far and I have to say that I¹m not impressed. It never ejects which
means you have to pull out the Firewire cable. It also freezes often which
means that it is a nightmare to use as a backup or to play something off it
directly e.g. audio or video. I might just have a faulty one but I have had
problems with Lacie in the past.


On 15/5/09 2:32 AM, "Piers Kelly" <piers.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:

> I looked into the rugged usb market a while back and learnt the following
> things:
> * My impression is that flash drives are already fairly rugged just as they
> are. I've had one that became faulty through water damage but since then I've
> just dried them out with a cloth they've worked fine. Likewise mobile phones:
> remove the batteries when it starts raining to prevent a short circuit and
> then dry them with a cloth when you can. I've done this a dozen times with my
> cheap nokia. The only thing that eventually killed it was total immersion.
> * 
> * The biggest risk (for me) is loss rather than damage. I purchased a usb that
> advertised itself as rugged but the chain attaching it to my keyring was weak
> and I lost it on a bumpy uphill journey.
> Backing up to an external server such as Jungle Disk or dot mac is an option
> if you have occasional access to the internet. That way you know that even if
> all your equipment is completely pulverised, the last back-up will still be
> sitting happily on a server somewhere in California. Jungle Disk is really
> quite cheap especially if you think of it in terms of data insurance.
> 
> Having said that, the 'survivor' looks great if other forms of backup are not
> available. It also appeals to my inner boy scout - any product that can make
> data storage look edgy and dangerous is cool by me!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM, William J Poser <wjposer at ldc.upenn.edu>
> wrote:
>>> >Perhaps you could tuck one or two emergency matches into the case as well..
>> Real field linguists can make fire with a fire drill...
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
> 
> 


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