My Traveling File Cabinet
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Situation 1: I hated carrying 3.5 'floppies' from my home computer, to my office, the library and the academic help room for the tutors. I can't tell you how often the floppies degraded before I could get them to the next computer. The ones I made available for the students - I always got complaints that the students couldn't open the files or there were too many disks to keep up with. With the "Store 'n' Go", I can easily transfer my files from home to the office and student computers without the fear of degradation. Though I have had another flash drive, which degraded losing all the files, I have never had a hint of trouble with my little red storage compartment. It's always ready 'on-the-spot'.
Situation 2: I teach on three tech school campuses, two high school campuses, and I have a job at the university in the winter. One particularly busy day, I arrived for class only to find that I had left my lecture notes on my desk 60 miles away. I went spastic. Luckily, I had my "Store 'n' Go" and was able to use the administrator's computer/printer. My notes were in my hands within seconds. I'm just a teacher. Imagine if I had been in business, had a meeting in on the other side of the country and had left my presentation. I would have "pixilated"! (broken into a thousand little squares) I love my flash drive!Situation 3. Through a Google search, I found a Navy friend of mine, from 30 years ago, living just 2 hours down the road. The last time I saw her, my eldest son was an infant, and my farm was no more than a bunch of trees. We had 7 kids between us to catch up on. For the visit, she had a computer, and I had my "Store 'n' Go". I brought to her e-mails from my 'kid' in China, newspaper clips of my son in Iraq and photos of our girls - one in New York and the other still at home. Instead of trying to find and transport papers and photos, all I had to do was plug my flash drive into her computer's USB port, and my friend, who is now confined to her home due to a stroke, was able to see my family, farm and even scanned photos from long ago, so we could laugh over old times when we were young, thin and silly.
Four different lesson plans with peripherals, 546 photos, personal files -- I have only used 379MB (61%) of the 982MB available. Music files, video files and mixed content - I don't store these, but I could if I wanted to. The "Store 'n' Go" is my readily accessible traveling file cabinet, and it only takes up the same amount of space as my car key. And get this - according to the marketing descriptor, it has a security feature to protect sensitive data, it is projected to operate more than 450 years without failure and it can go through over 1 million write/erase cycles! Is that unbelievably fantastic, or what?JMCA c.June08
Last edited on Jul 11, 2008
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