Files on a USB flash Drive??

[Just Fun]

Has anyone placed their Project and Resource Pool Files (Linked together)
onto a USB flash drive without corruption? If each computer uses the same
drive letter do you think I can take them with me to various locations???
I want to take the files to a field construction office or to my Home Office
to work on them while I am away from the main office.
I don't have a laptop or I would simply keep it in one place on a laptop
hard drive.
Any thoughts?

John Hansen

 

[Rick Roszko]

As far as the PC is concerned, USB drive is like any drive, so it would work
fine, as long as you keep the same drive lett as you have indicated;
HOWEVER...

However, Flash RAM, depending on the technology you got, has a read/write
cycle as low as 10,000 or as high as 1,000,000 per block of memory.

If you are using it to transfer files, no big deal; however, you will be
read/writing on the flash itself, so it will use up life really quick!
Remember, each autosave creates a dupe file. Each change you make flips
bits/bytes.

So, my recommendation is to get a USB hard drive. If that's just to clucky
to move around, then I recommend a microdrive card (which has less HD
capacity, but at lease it will fit in your pocket.)

Hope that helped...

 

[Benson Liu]

Hi John,

It's no problem to read it else where, even if the drive has a different
letter.

Regards,

Benson