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Message: <blockquote data-quote="migaramk" data-source="post: 6208049" data-attributes="member: 38647">Well guys now a days pen drives are really cheap and have become most sought after ways of data transfer. below are some points to just have a look at1. lifeonly thing(apart from normal wear and tear) the affects life of a usb drive is write cycles.u can read data from a drive any no of times u want but writing a data to it will decrease its life by a bit.writing includes deleting/defragmenting etc.thus unless sufficient space is not left in ur drive for ur new file , DONOT delete old data from it , just insert more new data.2 defragmentunlike normal hard disks with moving spindles , pen drives do not have slow and fast zones.data kept anywhere will be read at same speed in a pen drive.thus NEVER defrag ur pen drive as it introduces one more write cycle and reduce life of ur pen drive (by just a little bit).also usb drives don't have any head that needs to move its position (thus wasting time to read a fragmented file on an a hard drive drive)so no need whatsoever to defrag ur usb(or any other solid state drives)3. safely remove ur external drivewell speed of hd is much faster than pen drivethus when u transfer data to ur pen drive , to speed things up , some of the data may be "cached" by ur os.thus when the dialogue box showing file transfer to pen drive has vanished , the data may not have been completely written to pen drive.that is why whenever u copy something to ur pen drive u must always make sure that u "safely remove the hardware" just to be sure that all data has been transferred.when u are reading from ur pen drive , no such thing occurs , thus the moment the transfer dialog is complete , u can simply take out ur pen drive without any fear of data corruption.thus always "safely remove hardware" when u copy something to ur pen drive , else it is not necessary4. file systemsdefault is fat 32some guys prefer ntfs , linux geeks may try out ext3.well these journaled file systems carry no real benefit in terms of data security.but they have a lot of overhead in terms of journaling , keeping extra record bout files etc.this again introduces useless write cycles which again is bad for life for ur pen drive.preferable file systems ----- fat32 / ext2 .5. virusesthese can be avoided bya-> using linuxb-> using hips(comodo defence+)else on windows , always disable autorun of removable drives from "tweakui"also keep anti virus updated .well if u must , transfer data from a pc u know is already "infected"(college pc/net cafe's) then1. shut down "infected" pc2. boot into ubuntu installer's live disk3. now attach ur pen drive and transfer data happily!!or else if u can , make urself a bootable ubuntu pen drive.simply boot into it and do what u want fearlessly~~::ADD A REP IF U LIKE THIS POST::~~</blockquote>

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