USB Pocket Storage Device

I'm thinking about buying one of these and would appreciate it if anyone would offer some suggestions and information.

First off .. When you plug them into your computer does the system see it as another hard drive? If so is it just drag and drop transfer from one to the other?

What's a good brand to look at?

Is there anything like speed or compadability I need to watch out for?

Thanks Allot
Rockit

 

Hi Rockit,

Just bought this one: http://shop3.outpost.com/search?sea...MB+2.0+USB+DRIVE&cat=0&submit.x=8&submit.y=12

Have used them and just plug it in, XP is ready for it and will recognize them. Yes, you simply drag and drop and otherwise use it as another drive.

The only compatibility issue is if it's a USB 2.0 device, watch out for backward compatitbilty with 1.1.

Going thru getting the external drive cage, I updated to USB 2.0. If you have to do that, go back to my thread on the external drive cage and look for the reference from alc to get 4 USB 2.0 hubs for 9.99 shipping included.

Regards - Charles

 

With the drive I bought you did not need to install any driver if you use Windows ME or newer. In 98 you needed to install a driver. Windows will give it a drive letter and you can drag & drop files to it. Windows has the drive set so if I right click on the file in the "send to" it shows the drive. Being I do not have a network set up I use it to move files from one computer to another.

 

http://www.metropipe.net/ProductsPVPM.shtml

Carry your entire Internet communication system on a tiny USB drive.

Contains a complete virtual Linux machine with privacy-enabled Open Source Internet applications.

Carry your Internet applications, email, bookmarks, history, web cookies, download files in your pocket.

Perfect for travellers - nothing to be scanned, started, poked, or prodded at the airport.

Get English keyboard support no matter what computer you use.

No installation needed - just plug the drive into any Windows or Linux computer, and click on the Virtual Privacy Machine icon and you're ready to go.

The VPM's network connection will auto configure and run seamlessly on any machine with a working internet connection..

All Internet session data (cookies, history, downloads, etc.) are stored on the VPM, not the host computer.

Runs on any rewriteable media (USB drives, Flash Memory cards, Secure Digital devices, iPods, etc.)

This PR1 release runs on Windows and Linux - final release version will also run on OS X.

Runs in full screen mode (press SHIFT-CTRL-F. SHIFT-CTRL captures and releases focus.)

Includes Mozilla Firefox browser, Mozilla Thunderbird News/Email client (with Enigmail plugins for PGP email encryption), persistent Home directory, a demo version of the MetroPipe Tunneler.

Created from 100% Open Source GPL code and binaries.

 

Hi Rockit,

It all sounds great. Is there a users group or a way to contact users of this product? How about googling on the product, what comes up?

Regards - Charles

 

Rockit--I can't find a screenshot. It seems interesting. Might be excellent for financial communications.

Charles--I got a similar device that's also an MP3 player and voice recorder! It was cheap...about $55 on Pricewatch.

 

Just took a look; it's software you put on your own 'thumbdrive' to carry with you. Sounds like clicking on the icon/file boots a linux program that purports to have the above features. However the web site is crippled today, so can't investigate further (screenshots, price, etc.)

 

The digital audio players are fine for data transfer as well. I bought my son a 128Meg one from Radio Shack for Christmas for only $30 after a $10 rebate. It makes voice recordings with a built in mike, plays mp3's and wma's, and you have the equivalent of 88 floppies in a unit that's half the size of a cigarette pack. I'm impressed. It runs on USB2 and is DMA compliant so playing downloaded music is no problem. No speaker but bud-phones included. It has the full set of player controls, even shuffle.

I think I've played with it more than he has, kinda like that electric train I bought him years ago.

 

Bought this one 2 months ago.

1 Gig
write protection switch
98 driver cd is on a mini cd

Very happy