Here is a source that is more against using Jump Drives as storage for important files than for it. This person talks about 4GB Jump Drives, but we all know there are now 64GB Drives.
Here is what they said: ” Flash storage-Removable USB memory ‘jump drives’ and flash cards and drives. Up to 4 Gigabyte flash drives are now available from $100 to $300. Popular flash drives have 256MB, 512MB, and 1 Gig, starting at around $20. Looking at the price per Gigabyte, we see this method is the most expensive, about $10 per Gigabyte for the smaller drives, and up to $75 for the bigger 4 Gigabyte drives. People use them because they have fast transfer rate, and they are small and portable, a great way to transfer small files between computers. However, these are not failsafe…anyone who has used them knows that it’s a delicate device, and you must properly ‘eject’ the device from your computer, or else it could get damaged and your data will be forever gone. I have had a co worker who lost his data because his flash drive got ‘zapped’. Be careful! Most people may wear it around their neck with the enclosed neckband, but imagine this: What if you wore a wool sweater, and you walk alot on a carpeted floor? You’d get static electricity shock, which would ruin your flash drive. Because it contains delicate memory chips inside, one would have to exercise caution and not expose it to any electrical or magnetic fields or harsh vibrations or shock. In summary, flash storage is good for transferring small amounts of data between computers and digital cameras and other devices, but not a very secure way to store important data. The 2 Gigabyte capacity is small compared to the other storage devices.”
This is the link for this article:
http://www.disceraser.com/news.htm
The actual article is about a third of the way down the page after the shredder article.
