Pen Drive vs Portable Drive

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    Now a days Pen drive with 8GB,32GB,64GB comes with very affordable price.Here also Portable HDD drive with 320GB,500Gb are also available .Do you think that portable HDD are more secure than Pen drive.
    I inserted one working pen drive in the front panel usb port and its burnt out.Whereas in the same front usb port when i inserted portable HDD its not worked but its also not burnt out.You actually don't know when pen drive stops working.
     
    raja0179, Oct 31, 2009 IP
  2. Kerosene

    Kerosene Alpha & Omega™ Staff

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    You can't put a 1TB drive in your pocket. And you can't store your entire porn collection on a 64GB thumb drive.

    The decision is yours.
     
    Kerosene, Nov 1, 2009 IP
  3. robyries

    robyries Notable Member

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    nice dude,,.. :D but for me if you have a huge collection like movie[let say that way] I would buy Portable drive,... other wise pen drive
     
    robyries, Nov 1, 2009 IP
  4. Padalda

    Padalda Banned

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    Many people look to buy pen drives instead of HDD because they are very compact & stylish.
     
    Padalda, Nov 10, 2009 IP
  5. mak1751986

    mak1751986 Peon

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    pen drive no other then that ok.
     
    mak1751986, Nov 14, 2009 IP
  6. Digital_shubhi

    Digital_shubhi Illustrious Member

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    I also prefer Pen drives only. :)
    They are good to use and also not much complicated.
    And its my habit now to carry them everywhere along with me.

    - Digital -
     
    Digital_shubhi, Nov 14, 2009 IP
  7. 1ddv

    1ddv Peon

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    Pen drives are good for moving files from computer to computer, portablr hdds are more just for extra storage space, i have a few of both and they are great.
     
    1ddv, Nov 21, 2009 IP
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    seo_submission Peon

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    My view is Portable HDD. Well I had purchased the 32Gb pen drive there where very problem in it. Pendrive cant be repaired.
     
    seo_submission, Dec 3, 2009 IP
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    I prefer keeping 2 x 8GB pen drives with me all the time,
    and I empty them as soon as I get home to free the space.

    I didn't had to transfer more than 16GB of data in one go..
     
    Kim_Miller, Dec 5, 2009 IP
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    Moruz Peon

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    I like to keep my 500 Gb portable transcend HDD handy.
     
    Moruz, Dec 5, 2009 IP
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    shivshan Active Member

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    I would prefer pen drive because they are compact and easy to carry.
     
    shivshan, Dec 6, 2009 IP
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    I would prefer Pendrives, but Portable hard disk are the way to store HUGE data i feel (at least as of now)

    Regards,
     
    toughguy, Dec 6, 2009 IP
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    pen drives are less expience then portable drives whereas , portal drives are much better but expience!
     
    devilking, Dec 9, 2009 IP
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    pen drive can absorb shock better while portable drives are more fragile, once you drop it, oops
    there your HD goes
     
    flasheswoman, Dec 9, 2009 IP
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    rajesh.ejob Well-Known Member

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    I prefer Pen drives than Portable HDD, the simple reason is portability and secured don't need much care, i can put my pendrive in my pocket and can play soccer, but can't do it with portable HDD,
    Okay why your pendrive burnt is due to the reason that when you are connecting your front panel usb port with your mother, if you reverse the polarity that is inversely connecting it mother board makes this adverse and why the Portable HDD doesn't burnt is, flash drives are made of ic to store data, whereas HDD are not like that, ics couldn't withstand the entire polarity change, wheres hdd have specific circuits to check up the incoming power or signal then only it reaches the data cylinder or disc.
     
    rajesh.ejob, Dec 12, 2009 IP
  16. CountryBoy

    CountryBoy Prominent Member

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    I have experience of this.
    Dropped my portable hard drive on the ground and it was ker-fucked. Irreplaceable data lost (I wasn't going to spend a fortune on data recovery) and CountryBoy extremely pissed off for several days afterwards.
    USB flash drives are definitely the way to go.
     
    CountryBoy, Dec 22, 2009 IP