Originally Posted By: eddie1261
Gordon, I can't even remember the last time I broke a USB drive, but it was before I stopped buying the kind that is 3 inches long and switched to stubbies.

The problem for me with dongles is that they're present and sticking out all of the time. I don't use memory sticks like that ... I use them, I demount them, I stick them back in the draw.

A have a dongle for vArranger, which dongle is only around 1 1/4 inches long, but it had to stick out of the side of my notebad PC. It was damaged withing three weeks, though I can't now remember how. It's taped up with insulating tape and does still work.

I've had dongles in the past at work and sooner of later someone catches them as they walk past or leans on them or kicks them if they're in a floor-standing tower or puts a book or box on them or whatever. I avoid them when I can.

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