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    What to do with these big pendrives?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by conejeitor, Aug 15, 2009.

  1. conejeitor

    conejeitor Notebook Evangelist

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    Nowadays pendrives have much more capacity than we usually really use. So I wonder if you guys could give me ideas of how to get the most of my pendrive (4 gb). I mean, OS's? Games? Backups? Just want to know what you guys do with your pendrives, besides just storing/transporting info.
     
    conejeitor, Aug 15, 2009
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  2. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    my pendrive is a vista setup disk. and i hope to be able to create one pen drive which is a vista and a win7 setup disk + a home server recovery boot disk.

    and besides that, it stores portable data, some often used drivers (network, wireless drivers) and wlan keys and such.
     
    davepermen, Aug 15, 2009
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  3. N4n45h1

    N4n45h1 Notebook Consultant

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    You could put music on them to plug into your car's usb, if your car has that option.
     
    N4n45h1, Aug 15, 2009
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  4. conejeitor

    conejeitor Notebook Evangelist

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    Alright, I guess nothing so new.
     
    conejeitor, Aug 15, 2009
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  5. TwiztidKidd

    TwiztidKidd Notebook Evangelist

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    Sell them. Unless you have more than one computer and you transfer data in between them on a regular basis.
     
    TwiztidKidd, Aug 15, 2009
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  6. kisetsu17

    kisetsu17 Took me long enough

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    Actually, you haven't seen pendrives with ~16GB capacity. Shows up as a separate hard drive already lol

    Anyway, if I'd use it on my computer, and it's capable, I'd set up about 2GB of it for ReadyBoost, if I'm in Vista. It might help especially if you have just 2GB RAM.
     
    kisetsu17, Aug 15, 2009
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  7. jackluo923

    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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    What? I have two 32GB flashdrives and they show up as removable storage.

    Anyways... they're almost all full :<
    What I have on both of them:
    Portable Windows 7 or windows vista built by myself using WAIK (2GB~)
    Portable Microsoft office 2010 tech preview with word, excel, powerpoint, access, publisher (1GB)
    Portable photoshop (built using my own copy of adobe phtoshop license)
    portable visual studio
    portable sql server
    vmware player
    MS access database
    left4dead portable
    backtrack3 portable
    ubuntu portable

    That pretty much fills all 30GB~ of storage space on the flash drive.
     
    jackluo923, Aug 15, 2009
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  8. fred2028

    fred2028 Sexy member

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    I have a 16 GB SD card I use to transfer files and it shows up as a removable drive, however I see a capacity meter on it.
     
    fred2028, Aug 15, 2009
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    Maybe get a job and use them to store work data?
     
    iGrim, Aug 15, 2009
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  10. jackluo923

    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Maybe all removable storage has capacity meter? :D

    I wonder if floppy disk has capacity meter on it. I haven't used a floppy disk in at least half a decade.
     
    jackluo923, Aug 15, 2009
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  11. kisetsu17

    kisetsu17 Took me long enough

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    Don't know...perhaps it's because my mom's 16gb one is a generic drive? Haha.

    Whoa, dude. How. Do. You. Put. Portable. Programs. There. lol
     
    kisetsu17, Aug 15, 2009
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  12. avanish11

    avanish11 Panda! ^_^

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    I keep games, music, and movies on my 8GB drive. I get bored easily :p
     
    avanish11, Aug 15, 2009
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