The problem here is that you take your little portable hard drive with you and it
gets dropped or sytolen in the resturant or taken or trashed some other way, or it
just plain "crashes", and then you are out of luck because all of your important
data is lost, and anyone who stole it can now get your important data easily.
No different than if you had taken your laptop with you anyway.
The real answer here is to have one of these little things with an "erase" or
"format" function built in, that required a seperate password or something similar,
or possibly checked for a "Key" fi;e that you would have on any computer that you
owned or used, and which would self destruct, data wise, if you plugged it into
another system.
JaMi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brooks,Bill" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [DC] Warning... when attending events
> Suzy Webb made a good suggestion to me just a minute ago...
> In my class at Palomar College, good ol' Steve Toothacre came to class with
> a pocket size hard drive that he carried around with him to store backups
> on... I believe the link below is similar to what he bought at Fry's
> Electronics for about 200 bucks. They 'plug and play' right through the USB
> port... or with a 'firewire' cable...
>
> http://www.pockeyeurope.com/products/pocketvault.htm
>
> I will definitely purchase one of these for backups and keep it in a
> separate place from the laptop as a backup... I think his would fit in a
> shirt pocket like my pocket calculator size...
>
> Some folks don't need 30 GB of storage and can get away with the keychain
> models like the following one....
> http://www.pockeyeurope.com/products/flashdrive.htm
>
> They can store up to 1Gb
>
> Might be a life saver...
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Bill Brooks - KG6VVP
> PCB Design Engineer , C.I.D.+, C.I.I.
> Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510
> http://www.dtwc.com
> http://pcbwizards.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Sugden [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:09 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [DC] Warning... when attending events
>
> Hi Pete
>
> I bought another computer as soon as I got home. I had the other one (Sony)
> for only 4 months so there wasn't much work on it yet. Just lucky I guess.
> I
> have not contacted my home owner's insurance company yet. Hopefully, they
> will cover some of the loss. I bought a Fujitsu C series Lifebook. It
> should
> do the job.
>
> I sure look forward to seeing everyone in March at PCB West. For PCB
> designers, It is still the "Greatest Show On Earth". No other conference
> has so
> much to offer to PCB designers. And, no one else has the "Porch Dawgs".
> One of
> my friends took a new job with the stipulation that he be allowed to attend
> the PCB conference every year. He convinced his new employer that the
> investment in education would be returned ten fold to the company.
>
> Good to hear from you. I can't wait for my hug.
>
> Love, Mary
>
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