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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's the benefit of using cheap external USB drives - it's easy to keep one out of the house, eg at work, or at a friend's house. More convenient than "cloud" storage if you have a lot of data (at least it is if you use ADSL, which has a very slow "upstream" data rate). I use two drives, and keep one at home, and one at work, swapping them weekly, so the very most I'd lose would be a week's data updates.
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Yes, I would agree, but that's not possible for me. Due to extreme paranoia, external USB drives are
BANNED at work (US Dept of Defense). It seems that someone brought in an infected thumb drive a couple of years ago, and shut down an entire region.
The knee jerk reaction was to ban all USB external media throughout the DoD, and enforcing it with a GPO. The smart thing would have been to install a GPO to scan everything as part of the mounting process, but whoever accused bureaucrats of being smart.
The hardest hit folks were people who do a lot of photography. Imagine trying to get your photos into the network when you can't mount your camera as a hdd. You have to have a stand alone computer to mount your camera to, and burn your pics to CD/DVD!