Excellent!

" have my root folder to my web site on there..." I like that! I could have my favourites ready to go elsewhere too?


Now, if only I could work out HOW to import "live" stills from my XM2 to this drive .. .hmmm... guess I would need a pc/laptop to do the "hosting"?

I could work elsewhere and just upload . . . hmmm . .

. .any more uses? I think these things are remarkable.

Grazie

Well they have been around for a while. I thought many times about buying one, well actually I've got one except it also plays mp3 files.
I thought they'd be really cool to keep all the software I develop on, you know just rock into the hospital, plug it in and copy the files and presto, system update.
But then I saw some other IT guy do it and it looked way uncool!
Does anyone have a PC with a USB port on the front, not likely. And where is the PC you need to get to, under the receptionist desk of course. So you gotta get under her desk, pull the box out a bit, try to find a spare USB port in the dark while dodging all the dead bugs etc and then you roll over and find yourself staring up somewhere gentlemen shouldn't cause she's decided to sit down. At least the CD drives are always on the front of every PC.
And what has any of this got to do with video?
Well most of these hospitals take videos with cameras that go into places you don't want them going without anaesthetic and bending over with my butt in the air in these hospitals doesn't make me feel very comfortable at all.

Aside from that, what might be quite useful are those data vault gizmos with a built in card reader, they let you download from most memory cards such as CF and MS into the internal HDD and they're pretty small.

Bob.

"And what has any of this got to do with video?" - well . .. I can take small snippets, even .. mpeg1 samplers to a client OR have a small version of my latest "swinging" on my Gold Medallion covering my chest hair!

What an image Bob - you with your bottom in the air in a hospital! Priceless! AND with bugs and insects too . . . . this has a LOT to do with video . . LOL!

I just sent something to Peter, it pulled it "off" my editing machine, which is NOT connected to my Internet PC - yeah?

In terms of video/stills for my camera - wanted to see if there could be a link.

Grazie

Does anyone have a PC with a USB port on the front, not likely.

I have a Dell Dimension 3000 tower that has a USB port on the front. Many of the newer systems are starting to incorporate at least one port on the front. It has four more on the back.

My flash drive came with an extension cable.

What do we use 'em for? Well....

Every weekend, I record a couple of 3-hour radio shows to mp3 files, but don't have time to listen while recording. So I drag them into work on my USB drive during the week and listen as-time-permits.

I also have a selection of freeware security tools -- AVG Antivirus, Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad-Aware, BHO Demon, CWS Shredder, Bazooka Scanner -- on there because people frequently mention having virus/trojan/spyware issues, and this lets me help 'em out in a hurry.

Usage/Opton list is getting longer!

Anybody using them for any video projects? Graphics? Drawings? Photos? Scans? All transportable . ..

Like the radio thing. Is there a cheap small device that can link a camera to these drives - to take stills?

I've got 2 USBs on front of this PC. 4 on the n=back. On my ediot machine, on the other emnd pf my worktable, I have the same - 2 front, 4 rear.

Grazie

I dunno about attaching one to a camera. However, most memory cards have available USB adaptors rather cheaply. I keep an adaptor plugged into a port on my computer, then use the camera's memory cartridge for carrying data around. It even works for transferring pictures to/from the camera.

The downside is that it's not quite as portable as you need to have the adapter available when you travel to another PC.

I have something similar -- a Sony Memory Stick adaptor that looks and acts like a 1.4MB floppy disk. This lets me transfer small files from my computer at work (Windows NT4, no USB support) to my Sony VAIO laptop.

While pretty cool, this adaptor would be super-cool if it just worked in any floppy drive slot right out of the box. Unfortunately, you have to install drivers first.

I also use the Memory Stick in my camera to call up NTSC color bars on location to adjust the LCD screen.

My personal HP workstation has two USB 2.0 ports on the front, 6 in the back, and a cable for connecting things to them from the front to the back. Not a problem.
We just bought 63 Dell Work stations, they have two on front and 4 in back. No spare cable, though. Have to buy your own.

I use both the USB flash drive and a Sony Memory stick (same thing, really) and have had no trouble. However, students seem to have ONE problem. They leave the plug end unprotected and slop them into their pockets or purses. The units DIE that way. Static or shorting, or something, but they are really DEAD when it happens.

So, if you carry them around with important junk on them, at least protect them.

Hi Grazie, my car stereo has a USB socket and I can play my music on it.,

you can remove horses from hooves, lions from thorns, throw at people from a distance, paper weight, small comb, give as a gift a xmas, stand on it to gain that little extra height, you get the idea