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With this worm floating around and the military's reaction of banning all flashed based media, I am now tasked by my boss to come up with a solution, following the guideline of "if it spins it's good".
Do you guys have any solutions/ideas? I'm looking into getting the small HDD thumb drives, and want your opinion on whats the best.

please don't turn this thread into a discussion on how this will not stop the worm or how the military is this or that.

thank you
 
AFAIK, there isn't any hard drive based "thumb" drives, as there aren't any HDD's that small. You're best bet would be something like this. Or just get an iPod classic (or any HDD based media player) and it will serve 2 purposes.
 
IIRC, the only HDD I've seen small enough for that kind of use is in the Cowon i6 portable media player. It has a 4GB capacity, and is no longer in production, but if you really want it I'm sure you could buy some off ebay. The player acts as a usb mass storage device, I think, so you could effectively use it as a drive.

Are you sure you can't convince your boss that this no-flash idea he has is absurd?
 
No getting around no flash media, military orders from way up high.
This is for work. I've seen them before, square about the size of a half dallor with a USB connection. I can't find any right now or I'd link. I have a link to an Iomagic one but it's at work and was OOS any way. They were 12Gb I think.
 
1.8" external drives seem to be your only real option. Do they even make drives smaller than that?

Where I work we can't bring in any electronics. Even calculators have to be approved by security. I can't believe they used to allow thumb drives into the pentagon, makes you wonder about the people running security there...:rolleyes:
 
DeathFromBelow said:
1.8" external drives seem to be your only real option. Do they even make drives smaller than that?

Where I work we can't bring in any electronics. Even calculators have to be approved by security. I can't believe they used to allow thumb drives into the pentagon, makes you wonder about the people running security there...:rolleyes:
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QFT, reminds me of this. :D

Also, your right about the 1.8" drives. OP, take another look at the drives I linked to here.
 
You used to be able to buy 1" external hard drives. That will probably be your best bet if you want small.
 
I have a USB HDD 'thumb' drive if you will, It's probably 1.5" x 2" and the usb connector folds in. I would not recommend buying one though. If you try to use them on an XP machine account that is set to limited, it won't install because it's considered adding new hardware. They (at least mine) actually come up as a hard drive, rather than a usb drive. Flash drives are not locked out under limited user on XP, where installing hardware (this hard drive) is locked out.
 
bigdogchris said:
I have a USB HDD 'thumb' drive if you will, It's probably 1.5" x 2" and the usb connector folds in. I would not recommend buying one though. If you try to use them on an XP machine account that is set to limited, it won't install because it's considered adding new hardware. They (at least mine) actually come up as a hard drive, rather than a usb drive. Flash drives are not locked out under limited user on XP, where installing hardware (this hard drive) is locked out.
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This is exactly why the government is allowing such devices on the networks. Their in no problems adding external hard drives. It's just flashed based media that shows up as Thumb drives and replicates the worm. If its a "micro" HDD, it is recognized as a HHD and the worm will not jump to it.

Again, I in the Air Force at a Regular base (not the Pentagon). read this article
I am using government funds
It can not be a thumb drive
It can not be an Ipod/any other music device
It has to be in expensive (going to get about 10) about $25-30

Thank you for all your inputs. Keep them coming plz
 
With those new guidlines, the 1.8" drives I linked to are out of the question ($$$). As are the CF "MicroDrives" as they would show up like any other flash device. The device bigdogchris mentioned seems to be perfect though.
 
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