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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3037388" data-attributes="member: 39593">I have an 8GB Memorex traveldrive.  Now it's not flash it's basically a really little USB external hardrive and it cost quite a bit.  But it means I can download my entire non-music file archive into a single backup and then carry it around with me wherever I go just in case.  But I got it just over a year ago so better deals exist, just saying the ability to pull everything personal off your harddrives and put them onto something the size of a thick matchbook you can keep on you just in case is very handy.  For the rest I have half a dozen little .5GB wal-mart special flashdrives on a linked series of keyrings.  They were cheap as dirt comparitively and I don't really care if they work forever just that I can keep particular things on each one and mark them by what's on them for quick reference.EDIT:  Oh yeah encryption, don't use what comes with the drive it's just not much protection.  Get a commercial cryptographic program if you actually want protection.  Depending on how intensive they can go from reasonable commercial prices of around $50 for low volume all the way up to simply unreasonable for an ordinary person.</blockquote>