USB Flash Drives-Part II
It's been over six months since I started writing the Patron Tips blog. My first post was about the benefits of using USB Flash drives over floppy disks, but no ones seems to have read it!!! :-)
We still get patrons coming in with bad floppies and losing their data. So in this post, I will reiterate what I said before - - Throw away those disks and invest $15 in getting yourself a USB Flash drive! And do it NOW!
USB Flash dirves are more reliabe and can store so much more data than those antiquated and soon to be obsolete floppies. In case you didn't know, most computer manufacturers no longer include floppy drives with their computers. There are lots of reasons for this. Most importantly, they are not reliable. Floppy disks go bad without warning, and occassionally it happens here. It's disappointing when our staff have to tell patrons that there is nothing we can do to get their research paper or resume off their corrupted floppy disk. We really don't like doing it. If you would stop using them, we would stop being sad. Do you want to keep making us sad? If it hasn't happened to you yet, consider yourself one of the lucky ones... and a timebomb waiting to go off!
If you missed the post, you can find it here.
If you still don't believe me, keep reading...
USB Benefits
Buzz of Death
USB Flass Drive Alliance
Comments
You can also use most mp3 players as a portable storage drive. XP will see most, when plugged in, as a drive with its own letter. (e.g. I: or E:)
You should be able to just open the drive and view, and save files just like you would on a floppy disk or CD-Rom.
However, be sure to check your players documentation as certain mp3 players require proprietary software in order to interact with them and therefore wont work as storage drives on the library's computers.
Posted by: William | September 12, 2006 03:22 PM