It is common for students to use USBs to store their homework so that they have access to them at school. Unfortunately, USBs are very easy to lose. This can be devastating if the USB contains the only copy of your work or data. If your files don’t contain really sensitive personal data, such as banking data, you might consider using these new “files in the cloud” services instead of USBs and save your temporary working documents in the cloud. Many companies offer free versions of the services with limited storage, say 1GB to 2 GB free. For example, there is dropbox, syncplicity, sugarsync, and google upload. No more nightmares about losing your USBs!
