Learn What's a Travel Drive and How Can it Help You to Clear Paper Clutter

If you're trying to store or back up paper files and electronic files to portable media storage, you might consider a Mini Travel Drive. Read more...

♦Another great item to use to store or back up data and photos is a travel drive (flash drive, jump drive, USB drive, etc.). This is a portable drive that you plug into a USB port on your desktop computer or laptop. The USB port is the same little socket that you plug printers and digital cameras into. Most computer hard drives have several and even if yours doesn't (or they're all full), you can easily add more USB ports with no computer technical knowledge (just use a USB hub). These hubs are in the computer section of stores everywhere. This is just one USB hub style:

♦A portable travel drive is like having another drive. Just like you already have the C drive or A drive on your computer, the travel drive (when plugged into your USB port) might appear on your computer for instance as the F or G drive. You can save any file on your computer to it, and even download software programs to it. A travel drive holds a lot, possibly more than ANY other portable data or photo backup option---depending on the storage capacity size of the travel drive you buy (e.g. 256 mb, 512 mb, 1 gb, etc.). A portable travel drive is about the size of a key chain. (Perhaps, a portable hard drive holds the most but portable travel drives are really growing in size.)

♦A good reliable brand is Memorex. Here's one I own and use. It's really so simple to use a first grader could master it. Here it is sold from Amazon.com:

I also own the SanDisk brand and have had no problems with them.

♦Prices of travel drives increase with storage capacity size, like these Memorex Mini Travel Drives also from Amazon (which are tiny capacity compared to some sold now, but you can click through anyone below to get more suggestions at Amazon):