I have plenty of those drives lying around too.  We use them now to put photos on and lock up in the lock box instead of burning our family photos on CD’s.  I don’t know that it is any easier but I do for sure that I am no where near as afraid of losing them because CD’s get scratched the drives are pretty doggone durable.  I’ve washed many of them in my husband’s pants and he just keeps right on using them.