Posts Tagged ‘ flash ’

Why are 2 gig flash drives priced at $70 when you can buy a 60 gig external hard drive at the same price?

June 20, 2010
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I figured maybe it’s because of the size, but they make external hard drives that can fit in your palm. It really baffles me that a 2 gig flash drives cost $70 when you could buy a 60 gigabyte external hardrive for the same price or less.

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Does external hard drives uses flash memory or discs similar to internal hard drive?

June 20, 2010
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I just brought a 1TB iomgea external hard drive and it looks pretty long. Wonder whats inside…

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Is there a way to unplug a sandisk cruzer flash drive without using the safely remove hardware wizard?

June 20, 2010
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Is there a way to set it up so I can remove it and it won’t corrupt all of my files? I don’t want to just remove it when i’m supposed to use the safely remove hardware feature.

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I use a lot of flash drives, my friend suggested that instead I should buy an external hard drive.?

June 19, 2010
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Im ashamed to admit that besides more memory I don’t know what the advantage really would be of switching from flash drives to a Portable hard drive. If I installed a program on the external hard drive could I then take that program to a computer that didn’t have said program and run it...

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Can flash light be used while taking video with digital still cameras?

June 19, 2010
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I tried a couple digital cameras. I was not able to figure out how to turn on the flash light as a lighting source while taking video. Sometimes when I take video with digital camera where lighting is not sufficient, I wish I could turn on the flash light on the camera. On some...

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Can external hard drive and USB flash drives be used as the same thing?

June 19, 2010
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A few days ago my laptop was slowing and so i restarted it and it said that a drive is failing or about to fail. then it froze and i decided to let it rest over night and today when i turn it on it goes black. I was told to use a external...

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Are there external hard drives that work like flash drives?

June 17, 2010
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I would like an external hard drive that can plug and play on any and every computer, both PC and Mac. This is similar to how USB flash drives can be used on as many computers as one likes. Are there any that can do this? Is this what the “pre-formatted” specification is?

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What digital cameras are best using existing light wihout flash after sunset?

June 15, 2010
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I have two digital cameras – panasonic tz3 and canon S2 IS – but I am not happy with the grainy picture quality I took using existing light indoor and outdoor after the sunset. I see that the camera lens are not fast lens, like 1.8 or 1.4…

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Can all Digital cameras use X133 speed Compact Flash?

June 9, 2010
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I have a Canon A85 and Powershot G3 cameras (both a few years old now) and I want to buy a new Compact Flash card for them. The new cards all have X133 which I believe is their transfer speed. Will they work with my older cameras ?

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How do I get Windows XP to forget about a flash drive and treat is as new hardware?

June 8, 2010
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I would like Windows XP to forget about one of my flash drives so that when it is next plugged in, it is treated as new hardware that hasn’t been on the machine before. I meant ‘it’ not ‘is’: How do I get Windows XP to forget about a flash drive and treat it...

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