Category: Industrial Duplication & Media Management
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Why microSD Cards Get Slower Over Time — And What You Can Do About It
The performance drop most people blame on “bad cards” is usually normal behavior. If you’ve ever had a microSD card that felt fast when it was new but frustratingly slow a year later, you’re not imagining things. This is a real, measurable behavior in flash storage, and it happens even with reputable brands. The important…
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How microSD Cards Are Built, How They Fail, and How Professionals Manage Them
The Untold Life of a microSD Card: From Silicon Wafer to Secure Erasure From the outside, a microSD card looks boring. It is a black rectangle with a logo on top and some gold contacts on the back. You plug it in, it stores data, and as long as your photos or firmware or logs…
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USB Local Disk in 2025: The Reliable Way to Make a Flash Drive Appear as a Hard Drive
USB “Local Disk” in 2025: the XP-era hack had its moment—here’s the cleaner way (plus a product we found) If you landed here from our old tutorial about making a USB stick look like a hard drive, you’re reading a time capsule. That guide leaned on an XP-friendly INF/registry trick (tweaking the removable bit with…
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Disk Signature Collision While Cloning
Microsoft Windows has been sending out updates which have created some problems for those cloning mass storage devices like USB flash drives and USB hard drives. This article should help you resolve those issues. The Disk Signature is a unique ID Windows will assign to a device inside the Master Boot Record or MBR. The…
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What is Fuzzing and How Did It Find 26 USB Bugs?
Fuzzing is a method of testing with automated software which provides invalid, unexpected, and random data as inputs to a computer program. The testing program then monitors for crashes, assertions and potential memory leaks. A research team based from Purdue University came up with USBFuzz, which pushes enormous amounts of random data through the USB…
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Features to Consider When Buying a USB Duplicator
Came across an article today, which I thought was a very good read. It’s a niche article, but for anyone who deals with flash drives, I would suggest checking it out. From the article: The optical drive is nearly dead – they are no longer found in laptops and rarely found in tower PCs. With…
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QuadCore Raspberry Pi 4
Update: From this article, the Raspberry Pi 4’s USB-C power port was designed outside of official USB-IF specifications, making it incompatible with many USB-C chargers and/or power supplies. You can read more about from the link above and the information gathered to come to such a conclusion was done by a well known Google engineer,…
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Pocket Sized USB DNA Reader
I won’t claim to be a science expert, but found this article very interesting about a DNA Reader just a little larger than a USB drive. For years, Illumina Technology has the lead in genome sequencing. Their gear is good and from what I understand their gear is expensive. The MinION (from Oxford Nanopore )…
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Morse Code Beacon via USB Board
For those into home-brew programming projects, its easy to make a microcontroller spit out some Morse code with the post shown below. What makes [pavlin’s] take on this project interesting is that it resides on a tiny USB board with an ARM processor. The design for the board is available with single-sided artwork suitable for…
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USB Flash Drive Power Monitor
Smartronix has a USB power monitor and it’s ideal for those who want to regulate what power is coming from a USB device. Most notably would be the ability to test power from a suspect defective drive or gadget. With so many useless USB toys made in cheap factories over seas, one can get a…
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How To Read and Write CID on SD Cards
How To Read and Write CID on SD Cards If you are looking to read the CID number of an SD card, or extract the CID off an SD card, then you will find this article very helpful. Some also call this “reading the PSN off the SD card” or reading the product serial number…
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Microsoft With USB Anti-Malware RootKit
Microsoft has made available a new version of “Defender” to ride infected computers of malware, including rootkits which highjack your boot process and corrupt your computer. The “Defender Offline Beta” is available from Microsoft for free [here] and does require updates as virus definitions are always changing. Definitions are files that provide an encyclopedia of…