Oggi ho trovato un azionamento che istantaneo compro indietro in gennaio di 2004. Ho confrontato quelle prestazioni dell'azionamento all'brandnew Kingston DataTraveler. So che la velocità massima teorica di trasferimento del USB 1.1 è 12Mbps al secondo ed il USB 2.0 è quello di 480Mbps al secondo - ma è sempre divertimento per ottenere una prova nell'ambiente.

La mia prova nell'ambiente ha fornito i seguenti risultati. (più…)

Sono giusto un blogger; hanno scritto circa Readyboost; ma mai non studiate esso sono le prestazioni. Ho trovato oggi un articolo dal mondo del pc che ha preso uno sguardo più vicino. Basicamente, salta.

“Che cosa è Readyboost chiedete?„ pozzo è una caratteristica di Vista che permette che la memoria istantanea (come i bastoni del USB) sia usata come RAM supplementare per amplificare le prestazioni del pc.

Il mondo del pc ha preso quel reclamo e lo ha messo al banco. In primo luogo fuori, Microsoft indica che soltanto gli azionamenti istantanei d'effettuazione migliori dovrebbero essere usati, (3.5MBs per/sec legge e 2.5MBs per/sec scrive) così anche se reclamo “uso di alcuni Web site tutto l'azionamento istantaneo supplementare per Readyboost,„ quel reclamo è un mazzo di BS.

Usando l'effettuazione migliore guida da Kingston, Lexar e Ridata era conclusivo Readyboost migliori le prestazioni, ma soltanto da 4 - 6%. Così a meno che abbiate una vigilanza di arresto - BFD!  Il mio aggiornamento del Vista sta andando attendere. (più…)

L'annuncio di Microsoft che sviluppa una piattaforma di UFD per sostituire U3 ha potuto trasformarlo in una battaglia simile sega 25 anni fa fra VHS e Betamax.

Major suppliers have already dropped the U3 platform because of high royalty fees (around 5%) to bundle less expensive software which does the same thing. As these suppliers, like Kingston and Memorex, begin to choose the alternate like Migo Software, a heated war could surface between flash drive manufacturers.

Originally SanDisk partnered with M-Systems to develop the U3 solution, but as time went on, SanDisk bought out M-Systems and the evolution of U3 continues with this most recent partnership.

Microsoft is developing the software platform and SanDisk will continue offering their hardware for a total solution (yes, it’s a hardware/software thing). In addition, SanDisk and Microsoft will bundle in the TrustedFlash security technology developed by SanDisk.

“The U3 platform was established with the vision of giving customers a consistent and portable computing experience. The existing 20,000 U3 software developers that joined us show the potential for smart flash memory devices,” said Yoram Cedar, executive vice president of the mobile business unit and corporate engineering at SanDisk.

“We expect this relationship with Microsoft will raise the overall experience for consumers given Microsoft’s unique software expertise, and grow the momentum given the large community of 3rd party companies capable of utilizing Microsoft’s technologies.”

The migration process for the 20,000 U3 developers is a straight forward and simple one - Microsoft puts the pressure back on you to make the migration. Microsoft did say there will be tools to ad in the process, but the bottom line is U3 developers better get cracking if they want to see the light-of-day come mid 2008.

Tis the season for card readers…yesterday we had the latest from Kingston for the MobileLite announcement, now Buffalo introduces their latest line up - the MCR-A28 USB card reader.

This USB card reader supports 30 card types and most notably the new SDHC and Memory Stick Pro format - which are not backward compatible with other card readers which previously supported SD and Memory Stick.

Since the Kingston MobileLite is a 9 card reader focused on mobile memory cards, if you need something with a wider range of support YET still compact in size, the Buffalo USB card reader makes our short list. (more…)

The MobileLite 9-in-1 card reader is Kingston Technology’s version of hatch back - reminds me more of a beetle.

MobileLite takes the shape of a flash drive but where you would typically find the flash memory, Kingston has placed a host of card reader slots. The top pops open reveling the memory card slots.

The PC connection is USB (of course) and the nine flash memory formats are; microSD, miniSD, Secure Digital, SDHC, MMCmicro, MMCmobile, RS-MMC, MMCplus and full size MMC (MultiMediaCard). (more…)

GetUSB.info just closed our latest poll with the best participation ever, over 150 votes, thank you. This round we asked “How Devastating Would it be to Lose Your Flash Drive?”

By a slim margin the majority of people would be OK as they have original content on another computer. Which makes sense as most flash drives are used for file transfer, rather then file storage. However, for the 20% that said your life is over, you may want to consider some of the following solutions:

• Automatic USB Backup Utility, Free
• MojoPac is a UFD sync software
• Migo Software is also a UFD portable platform solution with backup abilities
• Last, if you don’t own a U3 flash drive, purchase one than grab some U3 backup USB software

Again, thanks for voting - I appreciate the interaction. If you’d like to see our latest question, visit GetUSB.info

As I reported back in March about Kingston giving U3 the axe, they continue to charge forward with UFD platform software. Migo Software now comes bundled with Kingston flash drives and most recent entry is the Kingston Data Traveler Mini.

The following summary of Migo software will sound very familiar: (more…)