22-05-2007
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| Re: USB flash with write protect
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Originally Posted by carveone With all this talk about speeds and tacked on displays and blinkenlights, manufacturers seem to have forgotten the poor sysadmin. Are there any USB flash drives that have a write protect switch?!?! Darned if I can find any. The last thing you can do with an owned machine is stick in a flash drive with no write protect. Wasn't there a reason floppy disks had a protect tab?
If there aren't I guess the only route is to buy SD flash and an USB-SD adapter. I believe the SD flash's "lock" switch is an optical one though, so some manufacturers may decide they couldn't be bothered honouring it... Any ideas?
Thanks,
Conor. | I have a small USB-SD flash drive (no larger then many flash drives) I keep a 2GB card inside works great AND I can use the card in my camera.
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