read/write option: If I put files on a flash drive....is it just for storage...or can I open up room on my harddrive and write to it also???
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I don't entirely understand the question, but I'll give you my scenario. I have an old computer that was built in 2002, it has a 40 Gb hard drive that is partitioned, and it runs USB 1.1. I also have a new Dell Vista machine where my main iTunes library is stored, that is at a different location so networking isn't an option. I wanted to back up my music, and I wanted to play it on the old machine, so I bought one of these drives for that. Now I don't have to use 16 (or so, I think the actual capacity is 15.something Gb) Gb of space on that tiny hard drive, I can use the USB drive for all my music. It opened up the space on the old hard drive so I don't have to duplicate the music files there. ITunes reads just fine from the flash drive over USB 1.1; it took some work to copy all the files into iTunes from the flash drive though and get it all set up. As long as the drive letter stays the same, iTunes can find the music any time that flash drive is plugged in and play directly from it. I hope this helps.
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It's flash memory, not a hard drive. Flash is far more expensive for compact sizes. I would do a few searches on "NAND Flash" and "High Capacity Flash" and you will see that the price makes sense for the low amount of space.
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As yet, I've not needed tech support. I installed a 1TB drive and as I mentioned in my review, the documentation leaves some to be desired. You _have_ to format the drive before the device will make it visible to computers plugged into the USB port. I verified that I can read 32GB CF and SD cards and that I can get the files off the drive over the USB port. Those are the main functions I'm counting on.
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In short, your answer is yes. While formatting the drive, the console may display a statement about perfomance issues. Most probably pertaining to the USB drive's read/write speeds. In my personal experience, writing to the drive is average, albeit a little slow. Reading from the drive, I have yet to see any issues in using this exact USB drive.
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You just plug it and open the file explorer. In there you can access the flash drive.
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It should work either way. I even used a 64gb flash usb drive for a little while when my hard drive burnt up.
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I don't have this device, but as a retired IT geek I thought I'd chime in and mention that many of these tablets can't read flash drives that have been formatted to NTFS on a pc. They tend to prefer FAT32 over NTFS. Most flash drives are formatted FAT32 by default, but if you reformatted it on a pc it would likely have defaulted to NTFS. Hope that helps.
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Read/Write speed, how fast you can transmit your files from/to the flash drive
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Edward, if you format the drive as NTFS, you would only be able to view its contents on a Mac. Writing to the drive would not be possible.
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The flash drive should be able to copy all files, regardless of size, as long as they don't exceed 128 GB. If it copies smaller files, but not your big ones, you may have a defective flash drive.I suggest you contact Kingston for more information.
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Usually you don't need to back up your entire HDD, just the data and usually just the My Documents folder. And perhaps some other areas that you save data to. You can either use a backup program or just plug it in and copy/paste like you would any other location on your PC, you can also keep the flash drive plugged in and share it on your network as network storage.
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Hi, Pamela:This is exactly what I want to do, putting movies on a USB flash drive. Can you please tell me exactly how you did it? Thanks very much.My email is : syang1@cox.net
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It is not a file thing. I checked that. Certain flash drives don't work for my car. Kingston ones used to work but not anymore.
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Actually it depends on which filesystem you use. The USB stick came formatted in the FAT32 file system which, from what I can tell from online searching, is limited to individual files of 4 GB in size. If you format it to NTFS is should be able to hold much larger files, but not all devices may be able to read the stick.
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Here is what I have looked up for you. I, personally, never had the problem. Be careful about formatting these things. I don't. My personal advice to you. Here are more tips that I found: Ed_P Posts: 1,677 Registered: &#8206;07-23-2010 0 Re: HOW TO REMOVE WRITE PROTECTION FROM USB FLASH-DRIVE??? Options &#8206;12-09-2012 07:56 PM R e t u r n i t !! 1st copy the files on it to your hard drive. Then contact SanDisk for an RMA. Then RETURN IT. They will send you a new one that will work, copy the flash drive files you backed up to your hard drive to the new replacement flash drive. Voila, fixed. Here's another link: http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5232/~/return-material-authorization-(rma)-process
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Yes, it works like a regular USB drive. So recorded files can be deleted like regular files to free up space.
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I THINK the way to do it is to take some of your photos, put them in a folder, and right click it to see the "properties" and how much space it is taking up in the folder and then calculate how many GB that is. I am not that knowledgeable about computers and USB flash storage, but that is what someone told me who seems to know a lot.