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[Egluntyne]

In yesterday's **Sheffield Star**

[Olly]

[Guest]

Don't start me on USB pen drives...

 

You wouldn't BELEIVE how bad they are, they die, they corrupt and sometimes the just fall apart. I've lost stuff on them a few times and students who ONLY KEEP THEIR WORK ON THEIR USB DRIVE actually make me tear my hair out.

[rachel19]

Yeah I agree with the USB pen drive comment - I don't trust them at all!!! I keep all my work saved in about 3 different places as well as having a hard copy because I just don't trust any of it!! Having said that there is a USB stick on amazon that you can drive a car over and it still works so I wonder if that is dog chew proof............

[susanbb]

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[Ain't Nobody Here]

What a twerp only having his work on that .

[Geoid]

He took it to PC world! The guys in KFC have more knowledge about computers than them! (Sorry if I have offended anyone!)

[Guest]

Having said that there is a USB stick on amazon that you can drive a car over and it still works so I wonder if that is dog chew proof............

 

Do you mean this one?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-Rugged-Water-Resistant-CMFUSB2-0-1GB/dp/B000CH3IIW/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1219604011&sr=8-13

 

I knew the one you meant because I have one!

 

It's dead

 

Well it died completely but there seemed to be a loose connection in it as if you wiggled it about you could get it to come back to life. That worked for a couple of weeks. Now its back to DEAD. Was an 8GB one too.

 

Casing is still intact though, except of course I lost the lid after a couple of weeks.

 

I threw it around the classroom a lot too - throwing it to whichever kid needed it at the time etc.

 

Actually I do need another one and I do have an amazon voucher - won't get a huge one though as it's just not worth it for the time they last. I just use the unclaimed ones left in my classroom (those where NONE of the work has a name in the header/footer!!!)

[The Dogmother]

How galling, but what a 'nana! I always back mine up.. onto my secure section on the server at work, which is then backed up onto tapes in a fire-proof safe.

 

I have a friend in forensic IT who could probably retrieve it for him; perhaps someone has come forward after seeing the article in the paper.

 

Fred's right, it's like asking Bob the Builder to service your car.

[Geoid]

Do you mean this one?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-Rugged-Water-Resistant-CMFUSB2-0-1GB/dp/B000CH3IIW/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1219604011&sr=8-13

 

I knew the one you meant because I have one!

 

Its not that one , its this one:

[Guest]

I was thinking of trying that one next - would be good not to lose the lid. You can't tell from the pictures though if the hole is big enough to get a keyring through - I like to carry it on a stronger lanyard.