Tracing the roots of our present-day tiny data storage media devices is a fascinating tale of man’s ingenuity. What we have now would have been called nothing but science fiction by our predecessors.
Our generation can only go as far back as the cassette tape but little do we know that there have been attempts made even before that, for efficient data storage devices. Like the clumsy, fumbling attempts of man to fly by means of balloons, the history or development of data storage media is a tale worth telling.
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Bigger is no longer better as the world’s consumers constantly demand for ever smaller and lighter gadgets. Digital and video cameras, mobile phones, MP3 players and computers all are in a race to be the smallest. This trend necessitates the use of correspondingly tiny data storage media. And this necessity gave birth to the memory card.
A memory card, also known as flash memory card, flash card or storage card is an electronic data storage device used to store data such as texts, pictures, audio and video files. Memory cards are now as small as a postage stamp and as such can be discreetly inserted into small, portable or remote computing devices. Electronic devices which use memory cards include digital cameras, mobile phones, laptop computers and video game consoles.
USB flash drives a.k.a memory sticks, USB sticks, USB memo keys, and pen drives are hugely popular these days due to their compact, sleek and very portable nature. CD-Rs and DVD-Rs by comparison require bulky cases to carry and even then, run the risk of getting broken, scratched or damaged. USB drives also have the convenience of being encased in robust material, making it impervious to scratches and dust. They are generally water-proof and pretty unbreakable, too. Already the tech world is abuzz with excitement over USB flash drives which have been drowned in water but after drying out still remained working.
The sale of laptops and netbooks has skyrocketed in the past few years as people became aware of their many convenient features. Users appreciate that laptops have the wide screen and keypad of the desktop and the portability of the iPhone. Sling in a bag, the laptop is the ultimate personal computer that you can carry anywhere.
However, this same portability makes the laptop susceptible to bumps, knocks and falls. Such accidents can cause hard drive failure and even worse, loss of your business data, private photos or financial records. Signs of hard drive failure include weird rattling, shaking noises and even smoke.
Understanding articles written about hard disk drives can be confusing to those who are not familiar with the industry’s basic terminology. But the terms are actually easy to understand. Following are some of the most often-used hard disk drive terms:
Being a data recovery company, we’re all too well aware that hard disks are by no means 100% reliable and fail safe. Most hard drive manufacturers quote the reliability of their drives in terms of ‘Mean Time Between Failure’ (MTBF for short).
Most older hard drives had a MTBF of between 20,000 and 50,000 hours (roughly between 800 and 2000 days) of continuous use before they could be expected to fail, whereas more modern drives are quoted at somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 hours, a vast improvement but still not completely failsafe.
Everybody wants the best deal when buying a product or service. This is especially true in the business world; the cost of doing business affects your bottom line. Often, price is a main consideration. We certainly do not want to pay too much for a data storage product, like a USB flash drive or a Flash card, especially when they all look the same. A flash drive just stores data, right? The off-brand £10 product works just as good as the name brand drive, correct? The answer is, yes…and, no! Both devices operate in the same way; they hold the same amount of data. But that is where the similarity ends.
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| Peter – Edinburgh |
Peter is a professional photographer and due to the size of the digital photos he produces he requires a lot of storage space. Peter uses an external hard drive to store his raw image files and uses a further external hard drive for backup. This is very a sensible approach and one that would normally avoid problems like losing accidently deleted files or if one of the hard drives failed. However what happens when both external hard drives fail possibly due to malware or both coming from a faulty batch? Disaster ensues.
