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Hi: This issue has ***Series i ramifications***. We have a number of important DB2 files with confidential data that would fit quite nicely onto many new USB key drives without being compressed into a SAVF. With all the doors being opened for access to Series i data "from the outside", anyone with a little extra authority and a current key drive can walk away with a frightening range of stuff. Physical access as security has gone from being marginally useful to being a terrible and dangerous joke. Anyway, at least one pundit I read somewhere has an entire Linux distro installed on a USB key drive, with all important programs (network connection of course, browser, e-mail, text editor, etc.) ready to run. He can supposedly sit down at a friend's computer, reboot off the key drive, use Linux, and log off leaving the computer essentially untouched. As to why the different treatment of platters and solid state, it is because there is a tremendous distinction in one area; size. Solid state drives are extremely compact and frequently disguised as other gadgets. The largest available devices are gaining capacity at breakneck speed and with only tolerable increases in price. The issue is not technology, but security. It just isn't easy to walk off with a reasonably priced platter-based device in one's pocket. I am not defending Microsoft's "no choice" elimination of USB key drive backups. "Isn't easy" is a far cry from "isn't possible." But the folks in Redmond have been, properly, excoriated for their past "convenience trumps security" approach to a lot of things. This swings the pendulum the other way. It isn't all that rational, but it certainly is *not* on my list of reasons for not moving to Vista. Darrell Darrell A. Martin - 630-754-2141 Manager, Computer Operations dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/21/2007 02:04:54 PM:
Are USB Drives bootable? Say I want to boot of the USB which is an image copy of my C
drive.
At 07:24 AM 3/21/2007, you wrote:Good info, but it doesn't address my question: Why should it matter at all if the drive is solid state or platter-based?
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