Comments on: Difference Between A Portable Hard Drive And A Flash Drive http://www.askageek.com/2006/10/08/difference-between-a-portable-hard-drive-and-a-flash-drive/ Where Geeks Answer Your Computer and Tech Questions! Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:41:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: matt http://www.askageek.com/2006/10/08/difference-between-a-portable-hard-drive-and-a-flash-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-7601 matt Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:45:18 +0000 http://www.askageek.com/2006/10/08/difference-between-a-portable-hard-drive-and-a-flash-drive/#comment-7601 Actually neither of the solutions you provided would be adequate. If you are talking thousands of pictures you will not want anything smaller than 200GB but probably want to lean towards 500GB. So your only real option is an external hard drive. Actually neither of the solutions you provided would be adequate. If you are talking thousands of pictures you will not want anything smaller than 200GB but probably want to lean towards 500GB.

So your only real option is an external hard drive.

]]> By: KRISTI http://www.askageek.com/2006/10/08/difference-between-a-portable-hard-drive-and-a-flash-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-7600 KRISTI Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:29:00 +0000 http://www.askageek.com/2006/10/08/difference-between-a-portable-hard-drive-and-a-flash-drive/#comment-7600 i need to back up alot of pictures (thousands) from my computer plus my husbands buisiness files. which would be better. a 4gb external hard drive or a flash drive? i need to back up alot of pictures (thousands) from my computer plus my husbands buisiness files. which would be better. a 4gb external hard drive or a flash drive?

]]> By: matt http://www.askageek.com/2006/10/08/difference-between-a-portable-hard-drive-and-a-flash-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-6359 matt Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:37:26 +0000 http://www.askageek.com/2006/10/08/difference-between-a-portable-hard-drive-and-a-flash-drive/#comment-6359 Azeez, the obvious difference between a flash drive and a floppy drive is that a floppy drive is big and can usually only hold a max of about 2 Megs of data (depending on the type of floppy etc). A USB Flash Drive can hold gigs of data. The most important difference is that a floppy drive has moving parts in it. When you put it in your computer it turns like a hard drive would and therefore putting it in your pocket could lead to causing damage to the data on the floppy. A Flash Drive, USB Thumb Drive, or whatever you would like to call it has no moving parts and stores the data on chips so unless you run it over with a truck, even then your data would probably be pretty safe, then you should be fine in terms of your data. The next obvious issue is that the floppy has to go into a floppy drive, which most computers do not come with anymore. The Flash Drive, USB Drive, Thumb Drive, or whatever you like to call it, connects to your USB port and all computers come with these now. Azeez, the obvious difference between a flash drive and a floppy drive is that a floppy drive is big and can usually only hold a max of about 2 Megs of data (depending on the type of floppy etc). A USB Flash Drive can hold gigs of data.

The most important difference is that a floppy drive has moving parts in it. When you put it in your computer it turns like a hard drive would and therefore putting it in your pocket could lead to causing damage to the data on the floppy.

A Flash Drive, USB Thumb Drive, or whatever you would like to call it has no moving parts and stores the data on chips so unless you run it over with a truck, even then your data would probably be pretty safe, then you should be fine in terms of your data.

The next obvious issue is that the floppy has to go into a floppy drive, which most computers do not come with anymore. The Flash Drive, USB Drive, Thumb Drive, or whatever you like to call it, connects to your USB port and all computers come with these now.

]]> By: Azeez http://www.askageek.com/2006/10/08/difference-between-a-portable-hard-drive-and-a-flash-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-6355 Azeez Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:47:16 +0000 http://www.askageek.com/2006/10/08/difference-between-a-portable-hard-drive-and-a-flash-drive/#comment-6355 I WANT TO KNOW DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FLASH DRIVE AND FLOPPY DRIVE I WANT TO KNOW DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FLASH DRIVE AND FLOPPY DRIVE

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