USB Flash Drives

oldman

oldman

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How do you label your flash drives? I have tried several different ways and I can't find one that works best for all of them. I have over 300 flash drives.
 

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Hey Oldman, I hear you loud & clear. Interesting problem. For years I have recorded CDs from LP records. Hack, I have over 400 CDs that I have recorded myself. They are nice with almost 70 minutes of music on each one. I enjoyed doing them because I used my CD label program on the computer & I would put personnel photos on each of the CDs. My wife doesn't think I should record anymore since I don't have all that time to listen to them & at my age who knows how long I gonna be around. However, those flash drives are really something. I have 7 of them; 2 are 64 GB & the rest are 32 GB. I have put over 500 songs each on 2 of the flash drives & there is still tons of room left. I'd like to know why you have over 300 flash drives? If your recording music you must have over a million tunes? Anyway, I don't really have an answer. Perhaps a non erasing felt pen to put a number on each of the drives. Then you would have to make a list what is inside each of the number. There are also some small sticky numbers you can get in office supply stores. If you come up with a good idea, let me know. I'd sure be interested. Good luck finding a good working solution!
 
I don't know how many CD's and DVD's I have, but I used the regular labels to mark them, so that was easy, but these flash drives are driving me nuts. Someone told me to put each one in a separate envelope and mark on the envelope the contents of the drive. I started doing that and it just became too time consuming.

I have pictures of anything and everything on my FD's and even thousands of songs. The reason that I have so many flash drives is because back when I was flying, I would buy low end 8 gig flash drives and install my flight plans on them and then when I got home, I would use it on my flight simulator to just play with. I used one flash drive for each flight plan, so not to confuse them and to be able to easily find them. Say I was going to fly from Washington, D.C. to LAX. I would download the company's flight plan onto my flash drive and then when I got home and had some time, I would plug in the flash drive using my flight simulator and play around with it. Flight simulators can be a lot of fun.
 

300 - Damn that is quite a few. Have you thought of using an engraving tool?

The only experience I had was with Microsoft's FS. My father-in-law used to work for Flight Safety who makes commerical FS, those things looked so cool. I never got to try one as they were always in use by pilots.
 
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Give them all a number with a permanent marker
or as said engrave them, then list there contents
elsewhere, like in a book or a file on you PC.

Mike.
 
oldman said:
I don't know how many CD's and DVD's I have, but I used the regular labels to mark them, so that was easy, but these flash drives are driving me nuts. Someone told me to put each one in a separate envelope and mark on the envelope the contents of the drive. I started doing that and it just became too time consuming.

I have pictures of anything and everything on my FD's and even thousands of songs. The reason that I have so many flash drives is because back when I was flying, I would buy low end 8 gig flash drives and install my flight plans on them and then when I got home, I would use it on my flight simulator to just play with. I used one flash drive for each flight plan, so not to confuse them and to be able to easily find them. Say I was going to fly from Washington, D.C. to LAX. I would download the company's flight plan onto my flash drive and then when I got home and had some time, I would plug in the flash drive using my flight simulator and play around with it. Flight simulators can be a lot of fun.
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Just write a code on the flash drive in numerical order and use a program like excel to describe the contents.Do that for each flash drive. You can print it out if you like.
 
I'm going to try using a label maker to put a number on them and then an Excel spreadsheet to identify the number to a description to what is on the drive.
 
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Transfer them ALL to a 1GB external Hard Drive....In to dedicated and named folders, I could not be bothered looking for something on one of three hundred USB to find something..crazy!!!
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That's what I did with all of mine. I have both a ''1 and a 2 terabyte Eternal Hard-drive''...
 
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That's what I did with all of mine. I have both a ''1 and a 2 terabyte Eternal Hard-drive''...
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That's what I should do. Download them all into one of my external HD's and get rid of the flash drives. I record a lot of music and videos using an online recorder and that takes up a lot of space, but with the newer terabyte hard drives, there is probably no way I would run out of storage.

I get these 8 gig flash drives for about a buck a piece from a pilot that flies back and forth from Hong Kong.
 

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