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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
USB sticks are awesome for moving files back and forth between the home and office.
Cloud storage isn't an option for a lot of my research data as the IRB rules don't allow for data with unique personal identifiers etc. And I just trust it more.
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Personally, I think that for secure data, USB-sticks are worst inventions ever. How many times would these be lost and all your data lies there in the open, waiting for someone to pick up and post it online.
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Originally Posted by CyGuy
I sure hope you meant that as a joke. USB thumb drives are one of the best inventions ever. I use mine daily, I mean every day without fail. I have several GB worth of Portable Apps, music, movies, pictures, ebooks, etc. I just could not imagine going back to having everything on the HDD of each computer, keeping apps and content portable is a must!
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Nope, not a joke. I've received several USB-sticks as a gift, but never used them besides updating bios, putting some os on them. Never practical.
All my data are stored on a NAS, so I can get to them on every computer in the house. Even the ipad could get music, video or literature from the nas if needed, although I never do (no comics as there's no comicapp yet which supports webdav)
As for office data. I don't move them around. Unless you mean some dvd-iso of that latest a coworker has lying around. Well... it's faster for me to just remotely give the order to my NAS to download it myself than transfer it through USB-stick.
If it's some docs or not too large files (<2GB), I could just drop them into my dropbox. When I'm at home or wherever, I can get to the files.