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Keeping your USB stick data safe
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| Posted Under Memory Card Guides By Dan at 5:50pm |
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After the demise of floppy discs many were left wondering what the next portable data storage format would be. For a while it seemed that zip discs would take over where the floppy left off but zip discs limited capacity and cost of both discs and drive meant that the takeup was not swift.
Today, USB sticks are the portable data transfer method of choice. You only have to look round a university computer lab to notice that all the students use them to transport data from their home machine to the university network. This is due to the flood of cheap USB sticks onto the memory card market and their durability. A USB stick still holds onto your data after a spin cycle in washing machine (note: we do not recommend testing this). You can drop it and it will not get damaged as there are no moving parts.
But, how do you protect the data on your USB stick? Here at the MemoryCards.co.uk mansion we have noticed a number of biometic USB sticks emerging into the market allowing your data to be protected by a scan of your fingerprint. The cheapest of which is the 1Gb Jet Flash 210, a great buy from Misco at only £12.34. This USB stick was named one of Computer Shoppers top 100 products in their annual survey. A nice feature on the JetFlash 210 is the ability to use the fingerprint scanner to log into websites (aliasing your fingerprint with stored usernames and passwords). A great timesaver if you have a lot of login details to remember.
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