Need info on Flash Drives USB

I am looking at the package and is says nothing about 2.0 or otherwise. What do you mean "hardly no flash drive is working more than a year"? What I want to do with this is mainly store my photos on it, instead of negatives as I have come into the 21 century and now use a digital camera and not a film camera anymore.... but I just want one FLash to store photos nad one to store documents - I am just a home person, so no big programs or the like... just word documents and things like that.

I'm a dunce at this - I appreciate your help! I may just not be understanding what I want to do with what I am talking about is for what I want to do - if that made sense! I still don't "get" the part you keep saying about the Flash drives lasting only a year or so. What doesn't "last"? Why do they break? How do they defy their warrenty? I assumed you just put stuff on there like a mini hard drive kind of thing, that you can carry aroud with you so you have your computer information wherever you need it. I was only interested in using a flash for photo storage, and back up to my docs and things on my pc. I don't use any other pc, don't go now where for any of the other "Features" to be an issue to me. From what you are saying, I am understanding it as I can use the max space on the drive, and after a year it all goes... kerplunk or something? Ergo, flash is not good for storage? I guess I'd rather use a CD, but since there are so many kinds of cd's and all components are comaptiable with different cd's this is what drove me to the flash. I can copy pictures to a CD, but not everything will play athat CD - It plays on my PC, it plays on my bedroom tv, but doesnt' play on my lvingroom tV, gave it to my daughter and it doesn't play on her tv (DVD player attached to all) Then I find out each component has it's own acceptance of CD style like +R -R

Every USB supported hardware must list the version of the software. Or else we should not buy them. As already said, most of the flash drives supports 2.0., if it was a good company, then no need to bother even there is no specification on 2.0 and you will notice any problem with it in the first use only. If they won't support any 2.0 USB's then they will returned to them immediately. Just plug-in the drive to any new computer which had the USB 2.0 ports. Then you will know about it. Why I said hardly only one year is due to their life time I have seen in many of my friends and also mine. No flash drive is coming more than one year. Even though the provider giving the three year warrany (only moserbaer is giving 5 year warranty), due to their delicate design and the flexibility, they are breaking very easily. And most of the drives working only one or two years even they won't breaks. If it breaks, the warranty void, if it was exceeds the limit of usage, then the warranty voids. If you read their manual, then you will came to know that, they won't stay longer more than a year. Even if it was in warranty, they may show you the number of usages. If you really want to buy only flash drive, then make sure it was good in design and it has sufficient number of usage limit. If you want to make back up for your Photos and all documents, better to use CD/DVD and their data retention time is more than 8 years depending on the brand of the CD/DVD. If wasn't much expensive. Try to make two to three backups for the same data, so that you can feel free from data loss. This is very cost effective data backup methods and you can make data back up of up to 4.7 GB in a single DVD. But these DVDs are not flexible as much as Flash drives. Finally there is another option to make backups. That is Buying a Hard disk. It won't cost much than the flash drive for the same capacity and it was as fast as USB flash drive and has the data retention of about 12 years. There are as flexible as flash drives (of course little big in size) and reliable as much as CD/DVDs. So the thing is in your hand to choose which one. Have a nice time. Thank you.

I have tried the CD way - and for some stupid reason it is so complicated I can't hardly make it work. I do it one way and it works, next time i go do it, it doesn't work that wway! I also have the problem that not all TV accept all CD's. I put some pictures on a CD (forget now R, RW etc) and it worked on my bedroom tv (dvd player) but not my living room TV (dvd player) I gave it to my daughter and it didn't work on hers. Same thing with music CD's I download music and it plays on my PC, on my car player, but not on my son's player in his truck. Massive research told me it all depends on the CD/DVD player and what IT acepts not what disk you choose. My car is CD/R, my TV is CD/RW, my PC is CD/+-RW so I have to have multiple kinds of CD to accomodate everything and hten keep it all straight! Now I have a DVD Cam Corder and that is another set of problems getting those mini DVD to copy to regular size and have them playable on tv's to give to people. This is why I thought if I just store them on a Flash, at least I know that works and they are safe there and can be pulled on any PC. Disks, will only pull if that PC is compatiable with that Disk type = best I can figure. Got any suggestions?

Well, I was going to suggest this before, but what I think you might want to consider is a Virtual Drive. Here is an example of a free service that allows you to upload and store up to a certain amount of data on their space: http://drive.freevirtualservers.com/HOME That one is free for the first amount of space and then people who need more than that pay something. I believe that one requires the free users to log on at least once every 3 months or so to keep the data active. I don't store a lot of video though, so I can't speak to that use. Good luck.

Regarding the warrenty - no more than it is used, is a warrenty an issue? I mean, if you use the flash drive all the time, I could see it, but for back up purposes - where I just back up once a month - or just continually add photos to it once a month - is a warrenty a thing to particulary be intrested in? And what goes wrong that is covered under warrenty? If it crashes your PC? or just doesnt' work? I am new to this - and tried back up on a CD, but it is to complicated - at least from what I was trying to do albeit wrong, but this way is so much easier! Thanks for your help

Warranty is the main thing as you are going for the back ups and not for the data transfer. What else, if you lost your data which you made backup. So please read their warranty terms and especially, data retention and its life time. External hard disks and DVDs are widely used when it comes to backups. So look at those instead of flash drive where there is no conformity on data retention. As you already using cds, better to buy a external hard disk (works on USB port only) with 250 GB capacity and it cost you around 50 USD only (2500 INR in Indian Currency)