Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today, 12/28/12, is on memory and flash drives. As a technofile, I've got stock-up prices on all sort of computer items (i.e. wireless keyboards, mice, even monitors) the same way I do on items like paper towels and toilet paper. And one of those items is portable storage: my current stock-up price for simple flash drives is $0.50 per GB. So if Amazon is going to put a Lexar 64GB flash drive up for $29.99 ($0.47 per GB) with free shipping, I'm buying two. That is one fabulous deal on a high-capacity storage drive.
What do I use flash drives for?
- Travel: this is my main use for portable drives. if I want to take my laptop with me on a plane, but also eed a ton of files from my main computer, it takes me about 5 minutes to copy them on to a flash drive and put the drive on my key chain. I can work with the files by just plugging them into my computer, and then bring home the updated versions the same way. Flash drives were made for travel.
- Backup: I have a regular backup drive, but there are certain files (documents, pictures) I'd like to keep multiple safe copies of in different physical locations. You never know when a disaster like Sandy or a fire or a burglary (all God forbid) may hit you. We actually have some flash drives tucked away in our safe deposit vault.
- Music storage: music files like mp3s are huge and tend to eat up my computer, laptop, iPad and phone storage very quickly.
- Photos: ever empty an entire summer's worth of pictures from your iPhone to your PC? There are a few you'll want to keep on there, but the rest should go into storage. Also remember that those wedding pictures of your grandparents from the 1940s just aren't going to last forever; scan them into digital form and back them up them on a flash drive.
- Documents: birth certificates, passports, marriage licenses, divorce papers, ketubahs, gets, citizenship papers, court records, even tax returns and receipts, financial records, etc. all should be backed up tucked away on a flash drive. These are all things that are not easily replaceable.
(By the way, here's a little factoid for you: thumb drives = flash drives = jump drives = USB keys. They are all different terms for the exact same item.)
Grab the Lexar 64GB jump drive at this fantastic Gold Box price of $29.99 today, as it's headed back up to yesterday's price of $44.94 as soon as the day is over. (FYI, Office Depot has it today for $59.99.)
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