There's been a lot of talk in the past of carrying a USB drive on a keychain to store important documents, med info, and stuff like that. Just came across this credit card sized usb drive that looked pretty interesting:
Walletex Wallet Flash
Anyone tried using one, as a back up but also day to day? I'd be curious about its durability in a wallet and repeated use every day.

It'd be awesome to replace a chunk on the keychain with a slim card in the wallet, even if it's accessed every day.

Jason

I wouldn't get it, it doesn't do U3.

I see badness in this things future. Someone is going to put it in a wallet, and sit on it.

Big Husky + Hard public transportation seat = snap + crack + pop

With the device being the width of a credit card, I would think it may prove unwieldy when used on the back of a PC. I'll stick with my SanDisk Cruzer Micro..very thin and accessible.

I have been thinking of one of those thingies for storing important personal and medical info, but I had one question, which was answered yesterday, at least for me.

I had to go to the local hospital for a blood draw, and while there I asked two different people in the admitting/registration area a question: If I came in needing treatment, and had a flash drive with my medical info on it, would you stick it in your computer to obtain that info. Both said NO, they were told not to do that because of the fear of compter virus.

So I still go with a paper copy, on bright yellow paper, shrunk, laminated, in my wallet and my wifes purse. Both copies have the important info on both of us, since we are rarely apart anyway...

For the stated purpose of carrying files (not applications) around, that would not be a hinderance.

Personally, I have a U3 drive, and I do not find much added utility from it. It is kind of cool from a geed perspective, but I have not seen any apps that I can't live without. The things that I have installed are opera and OpenOffice. Every computer already seems to have a browser and office suite, even if it is not your favorite.

Just because the computer you sit down in front of has an browser and office suite doesn't mean its useable. I was standardizing on html at one time and learned that there is a difference between standard and Microsoft html so when you site a PC with only IE then you have to be sure your document is Microsoft html and not standard html (and I was surprised at the number of differences). Same thing happened with MSoffice, I had some documents saved in Office 97 and found out one of the newer versions would only import the older files if you had installed the optional converter and the pc's in that cmpany had not. I've pretty much given up on MSIE and Offcie and carry portable firefox and OOo on my flash drive.

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I had U3, it isn't bad, but the launcher from Portableapps is better- smaller, faster, easier to add things to and less agressive. I've been working with it for the past two weeks, and I don't have U3 left on anything as a result. It can also be added to external HDDs and network drives, and is very happy to be there. .

The credit card drive is a little expensive when you can pick up 1 GB drives from some office supply stores for $19.95. I would be afraid that it would get wet or snap, or if someone got my wallet they would have access to my files.

U3 drives me nuts. It won't let me eject my thumb drive without telling me its an error, pops up all the time when i am working, just a pain in the behind. I need to figure out how to get rid of it.