Just a short note to let folks on this list that a lot of I.T. security
guys are beginning to view USB thumb drives as a security exposure. Many
desktop PCs now have USB port located on the front of their cases,
making it fairly unobtrusive to plug a thumb drive in, and walk out with
a hard disk's worth of information.
DJ
David Boyes wrote:
Ooooo. that's gonna be a pretty pricey USB thumb drive. Our z/OS
guys
FTP to IBM their S/A z/OS dumps which terse down to about 40G (from
100,000 cylinders on 3390 DASD). Do they even make 40G thumb drives?
Do
you want to send one to IBM? :-)
On the other hand, USB 2 to SATA/PATA carriers are about $35, and a 300G
SATA disk is about $80. Easily (and favorably) comparable to 3590
cartridges.
