Thing #7 - Flash Drives

Convenient but fragile, flash drives (thumb drives, etc.)promise much. Transportable, easy to install, can contain a lot of bytes. But buyer beware. I have had five flash drives turn to toast on me because I plugged them into USB ports that belonged to older computers. This has made me reluctant to keep anything of value on a flash drive without having backed the information up elsewhere. And now, when I want to use my drive on a foreign computer, I always hold my breath that my Corsair won't crash and burn yet once more.