I'm sure this will seem obvious to those of you already in the know, but after spending what seems like days waiting for fairly large GarageBand files to copy to my iDisk, I inserted a 2gb flash drive and found that files copy to it in minutes. It seems so easy that I keep expecting the files not to open (I want to copy them to a MacBook Pro, which I expect to have in a couple of days) but they do - on my present machine anyway. I'm now thinking of buying an 8gb flash drive to copy even larger files. Unless someone knows of a reason why copying to flash drives isn't a good idea, I recommend it to anyone who's experiencing the sort of trouble I've been having with the yawningly slow iDisk.
Flash drives are a convenient and inexpensive way to move files from computer to computer.
Internet-based storage has some advantages. For example, you can't loose it, and you don't have to bring anything around with you to have access to your files... all you need is internet access. However, for transferring locally, computer to computer, flash is much faster and easier.
I wouldn't be so hard on the iDisk speed it is only as fast as your internet up speed most likely well under 1Mb/s and less if your doing anything else on the net. USB 2.0 and firewire drives can be 400+ Mb/s "slower in practice" but still really fast.
And a FAT 32 formatted flash drive will also work just fine.
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