Re: Read-only USB drive

Subject: Re: Read-only USB drive
From: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 09:52:02 +0800

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Dan Goldstein
<DGoldstein -at- riveraintech -dot- com> wrote:
> Does anyone have an elegant solution for a read-only USB drive that
> protects the files on it against *accidental* deletion or replacement?
> I'm not talking about hacker-proof, just making it difficult for Those
> Who Don't Follow Instructions.

Switches that would write-protect a drive used to be standard. Now they
are hard to find. They do still exist, though.

I'm in China, so the range of brands available to me is probably different
than yours. What I use is the 4G version of this:
http://www.netac.com/productshow.php?id=54&typeid=1

They go up to 16.

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