What Storage Media Do You Prefer

[amateurrobotguy]

Originally Posted by Kyle

And you can get them with the FIRST logo on them now to.
http://www.logoloc.com/first/13055.html

Holy God, thats only 32 mb for $40?!? I can get 7x that for the same price on Amazon.com. Thats not near enough memory. Just today, I had to portablelize 100mb(I did it to a Cd-R). Cool though with the FiRST logo.

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by amateurrobotguy

Holy God, thats only 32 mb for $40?!? I can get 7x that for the same price on Amazon.com

But is has FIRST logo on it....

[amateurrobotguy]

HEHE, I forgot to mention in my list the people who just take their whole computer with them

[Joshua May]

I just use my iPod, basically a 20GB USB drive that can play music.

[peaseonearth]

iPod all the way! I mean you just can't beat the cool factor of an iPod. Plus firewire is extremely fast.

[DarkJedi613]

CD-R...its cheap, and fast...almost as fast (for me) as your Flash drives.

Though I use CD-RWs for backups and Floppies for small transfers.

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by amateurrobotguy

HEHE, I forgot to mention in my list the people who just take their whole computer with them

I'm one of those.

I purposely purchased (actually won) an extra laptop off Ebay to carry around. I got it for $412 including the shipping from California. It's a Toshiba Satellite 2805-S201, 650 mhz, 320 mg ram, dvd drive, and now I upgraded it with a 30 gig harddrive after I ran out of space on the original 6 gig. I have Windows 2000 Pro on it.

For a $400 laptop I don't worry about it too much and carry it around with me a lot. Here's an actual photo of it. Elgin took a pic of my laptop while it was on CD showing a pic of Team RUSH's electrical board and a sample of the Panduit wireway I brought in.

[Rombus]

I think i figured out i have over half a terabyte of storage among all my devices.
Personally im a huge fan of USB Hds and USB Flash Drives.
Heres a quick rundon:

Movable Storage
Primary Backup: AKA: BlackHole, a 250 gig HD in a USB Enclosure: Main uses: Backup of all important data, Also movment of rather large files that dont fit on anything else.

iPod: 20 gig 3rd gen, AKA: WhiteNoise, Mainly used for my 18 gig music collection, Spare space is for emergince transport

128meg Iomega FlashDrive, AKA: BagOfHoldin, Used exclusivly for all Work related files (Repair tools, virus scanner dats, etc).

64meg Noname flash drive, Aka: Nameless, Used for personal files i need to transport, such as papers, etc. soon to be replaced with a 512meg Cruizer Micro when radio shack has them on sale next monday.

CD-Rs: Used as backups for data i barely need any more, or used rarely (Laptop and Desktop OS Backups. etc)

Non-Moveable Storage
Main Computer: AKA: Bluefusion, 200 gig capacity, Used as a game system, Storage space used mostly for fileserver at lan partys, holding of data considered "In Use"

Laptop: AKA: Ub3rNote, A TC1100 HP Tablet PC, Used as my work system, Contains all personal data, schedule, appointmnets, current projects. etc.

Xbox: AKA: BlueX, Modded Xbox, Modded with a 120gig harddrive, Mainly used for storage of my xbox game backups and a media center.

WebServer: AKA: OMGHosting, Personal Webserver, 40 gig RAD 5 array, Used for anything im hosting on my websites.

[amateurrobotguy]

Wow Dude. I have to say, you sure do love you storage Now the question is, how much of that staorage do you actually use

Thanks DarkJedi for being on the same page with storage as me

[Andrew Y.]

USB drives all the way

i own a 1 gig stick Awsome for projects!

[Rombus]

lol, i figure im using 50ish% all together. I do some DV editing on the side for my team and my job, so that can eat up alot of the 200 gigs on my desktop. A majorty of my data is backups of programs so i dont have to use the CDroms, Backups of my games, A few gigs of digital pictures, Some Anime, and some of my fav tv series. My housemate is more insane, he has a 300 gig hard drive filled with anime, along with a zipper case with about 150-200 DVDs with various anime he has.

Now dont get me wrong, i have a spindle of 100 cd-rs on my desk, and i do burn stuff, but every computer i access usually has a USB port, so thats much more convientent for transfering papers and whatnot.

[DarkJedi613]

Now a related question - what do you guys use to burn stuff on the CDs?

I use Roxio Drag-to-Disc, fits in great with windows so I just drag and drop. Only thing is other computers flip out sometimes while trying to read it. (It has some auto installer on it that allows them to be read, its just annoying).

[Andy A.]

One thing everyone forgot-

Digital cameras!

Actually, for a long while I resisted getting a 'jump' drive. I figured I had a 256mb SD card and a ittybitty usb reader for it. Why buy something that was just the card and reader in one piece? Since I carry my laptop, camera and assorted gadgets with me everywhere, I always had the card and reader ready for use. It worked well, I found I liked browsing the images directly rather then using the bundled camera browser.

Eventually I saw a cheap 256 PNY drive at bestbuy, and picked it up with some birthday money. It's small, fast and insanely useful. I can't imagine how I got along with out it.

Now, when every computer has bluetooth we can just all have wireless flashcards embedded in our shoes and always be ready to go. Now theres portable data!

-Andy A.

[Mike]

Holographic Versatile Disc
Between 10 TB and 1.5 EB of space
EB = Exabyte... $@#$@#$@#$@# straight, an exabyte.

http://p2pnet.net/story/3855
http://p2pnet.net/story/3769

[amateurrobotguy]

Originally Posted by DarkJedi613

Now a related question - what do you guys use to burn stuff on the CDs?

I use Roxio Drag-to-Disc, fits in great with windows so I just drag and drop. Only thing is other computers flip out sometimes while trying to read it. (It has some auto installer on it that allows them to be read, its just annoying).

I use Roxio as well. I am not sure if it has the drag and drop feature though. I just pop-up the app and burn it from there. I think it is version 5. I'm not really willing to spend the money to get 7(or is it 9?).

When would you ever need terabytes or exabytes of information to be stored. If you need that much, you need some serious counseling. This is probably what the nerd would look like(See Pic)