Bigger and Bigger
December 15th 2008 09:09
My other Orble blog, Workreport.net, has been getting the lion’s share of posts lately, mainly because I’ve been writing a good deal about my prostate situation, the biopsy and subsequent interesting times I’ve been living through.
This blog has been feeling neglected, so I’m going to have to up the ante on here a little.
I’ve just been reading about a flash drive that has a capacity of 64gb. Seems only a few months ago that I was using one that was still in the megabyte range. I bought a new flash drive for one of my colleagues recently and was surprised to find that you could get ones with around 32gb. My biggest one is only a lowly 4gb.
Plainly flash drives, (or zip drives, as I tend to call them – or pen drives, as they’ve also been called at some time in their brief history) are on the up and up. Yet, they’re still much smaller in physical size than my first ‘real’ computer, which had something like 64 bytes!
I probably won’t be bothering to get one of these large capacity flash drives just yet, even though they’re all pretty well priced. In fact it’s hardly even worth waiting for them to come on sale. It’s just that I’m not sure I need all that extra storage space.
Yet my daughter, who has a lap-top, is finding that the piles of photos she has on it are blocking up the system. So she’s going for an external hard drive. Makes you wonder if it’s worth it.
This blog has been feeling neglected, so I’m going to have to up the ante on here a little.
I’ve just been reading about a flash drive that has a capacity of 64gb. Seems only a few months ago that I was using one that was still in the megabyte range. I bought a new flash drive for one of my colleagues recently and was surprised to find that you could get ones with around 32gb. My biggest one is only a lowly 4gb.
Plainly flash drives, (or zip drives, as I tend to call them – or pen drives, as they’ve also been called at some time in their brief history) are on the up and up. Yet, they’re still much smaller in physical size than my first ‘real’ computer, which had something like 64 bytes!
I probably won’t be bothering to get one of these large capacity flash drives just yet, even though they’re all pretty well priced. In fact it’s hardly even worth waiting for them to come on sale. It’s just that I’m not sure I need all that extra storage space.
Yet my daughter, who has a lap-top, is finding that the piles of photos she has on it are blocking up the system. So she’s going for an external hard drive. Makes you wonder if it’s worth it.
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