New Poll: How Big is Your USB Drive?

September 28th, 2007

17 Comments Written by Ashley

It’s time for a new poll! Last time we were wondering how clean your desktop was, so we asked: “How many icons and files are on your desktop?” Here are the results:

33% said: Under 20 – Things are thrown there until I get around to them.
25% said: Under 5 – Only the things I use the most.
18% said: A lot! My desktop is a dumping ground.
14% said: Nothing touches my desktop.
10% said: I like having the Recycle Bin.

It looks like those who have nothing, or nothing but the Recycle Bin are in the minority here with just 24% of the votes combined.

New Poll: How Big is your USB Drive

A few days ago, Ryan pointed out five extremely expensive computer accessories with one of them being a 64GB USB Drive priced at $4,749.99. Yes, 64 gigs of space for one low price. Most of us don’t have that kind of money to spend on a USB Drive, nor do we need that much storage to carry around on a key chain! So now we’re wondering, how big is your USB Drive? If you don’t have one, you can let us know that too.

64 GB USB Hard Drive

64 MB or less
256 MB or less
1GB or less
2GB or less
Over 2GB
I don’t own a USB Drive

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September 28th, 2007 at 1:00 pm The Guru (All-Star)

Just got mine in the mail the other day from buy.com (the one that y’all had the article about getting for $6.99).
September 28th, 2007 at 1:04 pm Mohan

Mines a gig…I got it for $70 years ago, when that was a lot of space. But it has served it’s purpose well, as it is used for school work and I have had years of school work on it and still only managed to fill up a bit of a half of the space.
September 28th, 2007 at 1:19 pm KylesCove

I have a half gig one that I couldn’t fill if I tried. I can’t imagine people needing that much room with PDA’s, cell phones, and all the other ways we can now access our information.
September 28th, 2007 at 1:30 pm spock1982

I have two thumb drives that are 2 GIG’s each. I have one that is dedicated to Readyboost and the other I use to carry things between work and home. I also have a 3 1/2 in hard drive enclosure that is pretty small and I have an 808 GIG drive in it currently. Micro Center always has very cheap thumb drives. The 2 gig models were only $17 each.
September 28th, 2007 at 1:58 pm The How-To Geek

This poll is inadequate… I’ve got a 2gb and a 4gb…
September 28th, 2007 at 2:23 pm Andrew

I got one at a garage sale. It’s 32 MB. I think it holds up to 8 photos!
September 28th, 2007 at 2:46 pm DKong

4 grand for that? That’s retarded. You can get 160 gb of storage with a freaking $450 ipod.
Why would you waste your money? That’s probably the dumbest out of the expensive items, IMO…..

But yeah, I don’t own an USB drive.
September 28th, 2007 at 3:51 pm Anonymous

Over 2GB
September 28th, 2007 at 5:46 pm irian

I recently walked by FutureShop when a 4GB USB drive was on sale. Couldn’t resist.
No fancy cell phones or PDA here, so it is a godsend for synchronizing all my stuff between the computer at my office and at home
Other than that, I have a 2GB one, and 2×512MB. And a couple of smaller ones that were given out as promotional articles.
September 28th, 2007 at 10:25 pm Ryan (Author)

Mohan wrote:

Mines a gig…I got it for $70 years ago, when that was a lot of space. But it has served it’s purpose well, as it is used for school work and I have had years of school work on it and still only managed to fill up a bit of a half of the space.

And now you can get 2GB for around $7. Funny how that works out.

The How-To Geek wrote:

This poll is inadequate… I’ve got a 2gb and a 4gb…

Then go with the larger. Maybe we’ll have to make another poll asking how many Flash drives people actually have?

Andrew wrote:

I got one at a garage sale. It’s 32 MB. I think it holds up to 8 photos!

Sweetness! You’ll never need another storage medium again!

DKong wrote:

I don’t own an USB drive.

Really? I have to say that I’m quite shocked.

irian wrote:

I recently walked by FutureShop when a 4GB USB drive was on sale. Couldn’t resist. No fancy cell phones or PDA here, so it is a godsend for synchronizing all my stuff between the computer at my office and at home
Other than that, I have a 2GB one, and 2×512MB. And a couple of smaller ones that were given out as promotional articles.

Sounds like you’re going to become a resale show for USB drives.
September 29th, 2007 at 4:10 am satur9

I don’t have a fancy cellphone or PDA either. Got a few USB drives lying around, which are quite handy, our oldest kids are learning to use them too. One of 1GB, one of 512, one of 256. It’s good to have a few of them around when several people in the household are using them
September 29th, 2007 at 1:20 pm netster007x (All-Star)

I’m cheap. I use a 64MB flash drive w/ clear purple plastic because I found it on the ground. I don’t even have enough free space on it to put PortableFirefox.

Hey, I just realized there’s a little switch next to a lock icon. I guess that locks up the files somehow?
September 30th, 2007 at 8:42 pm Ryan (Author)

netster007x wrote:

Hey, I just realized there’s a little switch next to a lock icon. I guess that locks up the files somehow?

Probably for the write protection, just like the floppies have.
October 1st, 2007 at 9:40 pm Ashley (Author)

netster007x wrote:

I’m cheap. I use a 64MB flash drive w/ clear purple plastic because I found it on the ground. I don’t even have enough free space on it to put PortableFirefox.

Hey, I just realized there’s a little switch next to a lock icon. I guess that locks up the files somehow?

Hey, if it works… why not use it!
January 6th, 2009 at 2:27 pm Jonathan

Well, mine is 16 Gigs. bout it for around $40 Sandisk Cruzer
January 6th, 2009 at 2:28 pm Jonathan

sorry. I bought it for around $40. I cant wait till the 32 GIG gets reasonably priced
January 12th, 2009 at 11:27 am netster007x (All-Star)

I’m up to 1GB (free but w/ tax) thnx to ur site’s tips