A:Answer I keep mine plugged into my Alien laptop, tucked behind the laptop. The unit is super small and really hold a trillion pieces of information. It also holds my Xbox games without ticking the total memory. No codes, etc., it is live with your unit. You can reference it in your systems anytime, through its menu, deleting what you want and add more. It is always on and active. You can set your default to automatically hold whatever in its memory instead of your hard drive. It really holds a lot of data.