pen drives

[Baz]

what would be a decent one to buy

[Glenn]

How big do you need, and what budget, Baz?

[Baz]

not massively big but a good size to use for everyday stuff really, photos/docs/music etc. Budget? dont really know how much they are now and its ages since I bought one and that was a 512Mb 

[Rik]

Something 4-8GB, Baz?

Take a look here, 20% off...

[Baz]

that sounds good Rik

[Glenn]

Something 4-8GB, Baz?

Take a look here, 20% off...

Where?

[Rik]

Good point. Note to self, remember to paste the link... 

http://www.mymemory.co.uk/USB-Flash-Drives

Code at checkout TAKE2010

[Rik]

Of those, I'd probably go for:

http://www.mymemory.co.uk/USB-Flash-Drives/Kingston/Kingston-8GB-DataTraveler-USB-Flash-Drive-%28Non-Retail-Pack%29

[quandam]

Rik

My Memory are a great little company, good advice.

[Rik]

I like them, Q, we've been doing business for years.

[Baz]

thanks all will take a look.that seems an ok price too 

[Lona]

I use Kingston all the time. You can get it here for a £1 less..............................

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Technology-8GB-Flash-Drive/dp/B0012X5766/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1269557862&sr=8-7

[Ted]

I use Kingston all the time. You can get it here for a £1 less..............................

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Technology-8GB-Flash-Drive/dp/B0012X5766/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1269557862&sr=8-7

IJT Direct also do the G2 version for a few pence less http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001ROVLWO/ref=pd_luc_mri?_encoding=UTF8&m=A1KKPH32R88X7D

Their Ebay outlet is Here

Strangely enough, I bought a Micro SD card from them last Friday, received it on Wednesday morning. They ship from Guernsey \ Jersey, same as Play.com. Almost 83,000 sales on Ebay with 99.9% feedback, so they seem a pretty reliable outfit.

[Baz]

what are the encrypted ones like.is it just software on the drive itself or do you need to install software on any PC you plug the drive into.My wife needs one for work and thought of encrypted ones.Her work should provide them really....but blood out of stone comes to mind 

[Rik]

I'm not sure, Baz, as I tend to delete any software supplied with pen drives. I would have thought that it had to be installed to the PCs that the drive is used with.

[Lance]

It doesn't, Rik.

The software we use at work encrypts the pen drive using software installed on the machine. We can then take the drive from one work machine to another and use it as a normal drive. However, if it is used in a personal computer, you can't access anything on the drive without entering the password set when it was encrypted.

[Rik]

So, presumably, it's loading a decryption driver into memory?

[Lance]

I don't know to be honest. 

[Steve]

I suppose that's in case you leave it on the train

[Rik]

We heard a steam train go past this morning. I thought I'd gone into a time warp...

[Lance]

I suppose that's in case you leave it on the train

Yep, laptop is fully encrypted too! In fact, every single machine on the Essex County Council network is encrypted, laptop or otherwise.

[Glenn]

Is it Pointsec encryption?

[Lance]

Yep I think so.

Checkpoint?

[Glenn]

Yep, it's a pain to fix a pc with it on. Removing it with a decrypt key can take several hours, then several more to re-install and encrypt the drive again.

[Lance]

I see. i thought you were going to say it was a load of rubbish and easily hackable!