Use phone as portable hard drive

[Guest vik1]

Just after a bit of quick advice please

Was thinking of using my phone with a bigger (16 gig) micro sd card in it - as a portable hard drive. I have a load of work files that i need to access on various different computers - and thought it'd be easier to carry this around, and less likely to lose it than a memory stick (I would obviously back up the data elsewhere regularly).

Can anyone think of any problems with doing this? and also is it possible to set up a folder on the drive that needs a password to access - just in case i lose/phone gets stolen?

Any advice much appreciated

[Guest misterLjay]

I carry numerous docs on my sd card for use on various desk tops. I don't use anything to protect the SD card as sensitive docs require a password to open them. Have a look at MyStash app which encrypts the files you want to protect, check their website.

Edited November 14, 2010 by misterLjay

[Guest]

Do all those various computers have internet access? It seems to me you're better off using Dropbox.

[Guest misterLjay]

Do all those various computers have internet access? It seems to me you're better off using Dropbox.

I use dropbox as well

[Guest vik1]

I use dropbox as well

will try dropbox - have heard good things about it - was just worried about speeds and reliability of internet connections. I thought it would be easier to have one set of files that i carry around

with dropbox - say you are working on a 2mb office document - do you have to download work on it - then upload - or can you edit without downloading?

Thanks for the advice

- if i do go down the phone route - any disadvantages? i couldnt think of any, but might be missing something obvious

[Guest vik1]

Just been trialing Dropbox following your recommendations.

Seems pretty cool - although i'm making small changes to a powerpoint document and its not recognising them on the online version, even though the local drive is saving the changes. Got the little green tick saying that its all synched.

I can't risk it not synching my changes properly - so thats a bit annoying - also not sure if my connection at work is fast enough to allow this to work for me

thanks for the idea though

update - testing it - seems to work fine with word documents. but not with powerpoint - which is a shame as thats 80% of what i needed it for!!

Edited November 14, 2010 by vik1