Category: Nexcopy Hardware & Solutions
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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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Nexcopy USB HDD Fixed Disk Could Bypass Removable Drive Restrictions
Nexcopy’s USB HDD “Fixed Disk” appears to act like a local hard drive, which can help teams operate in environments where removable drives are restricted. In high-security environments, USB drives can be good and bad. What I mean is, the flash drive is essential for information deployment, imaging, and data transfer, but we’ve also heard…
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Review: USB Write Protect Switch Verse USB Write Protect Controller
Review with pictures and video When it comes to making a USB stick read only, or USB write protected, there are two options. The first is the original technology of using a physical switch to toggle on and off the flash drive writing. The more recent technology is a programmatical way to toggle the write…
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Press Release: USB Write Protect Switch Has Been Replaced With Better Technology
Lake Forest, CA – [June 24, 2025] — Nexcopy introduces the Lock License USB drive as a secure, modern alternative to the USB write protect switch — offering firmware-level data protection with no physical toggle. A leading provider of advanced USB technology solutions, Nexcopy is emphasizing that the Lock License USB flash drive is a…
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USB Flash Drive Label – For Professionals and Businesses
Sticky labels are not a professional solution to label flash drives. Today we look at an alternative for labeling a flash drive which suits the demands of a business and/or professional. There is a clear difference between labeling your flash drive because of personal use and the need to label a flash drive which is…
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Review Rufus The Big Misconception With ISO Files
If anyone searches for “burn ISO to USB” they will get pages and pages of Rufus links. However, there is a big misconception with Rufus… it doesn’t create USB CD-ROM drives! Review Rufus with us now: The only thing Rufus does is take a bootable ISO file and write the data to a USB stick.…
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A USB Flash Drive Which Cannot Get a Virus
A computer virus is something we all strive to avoid because we understand the consequences and the amount of time and energy required to restore a computer to its original condition. In a recent poll by GetUSB.info when asking users to name the top three ways a computer can get a virus, they responded with:…
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Maintenance for USB Flash Drive Duplicator
USB flash drive duplicators are typically in production type environments because the equipment is being used to make hundreds or thousands of flash drives. Maintenance for USB flash drive duplicators is key to keeping the equipment operating at peak performance. As with any flash memory duplicator system, there are no moving parts. This certainly makes…
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Press Release: Nexcopy Introduces Default State USB Write Protection Flash Drive – Lock License
“The fundamental change towards how our flash drive works should draw attention for those looking for USB write protection for flash drives” says Greg Morris, CEO of Nexcopy Inc. What is unique about the Lock License approach is whenever power is cut to the device, for example disconnection, the USB is automatically write protected. This…
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How To Copy Protect PDF Files
How to Copy Protect PDF Files Outside Adobe Ecosystem This article will overview how to copy protect PDF files outside of the Adobe ecosystem. A couple of things worth mentioning before getting into the details: Encryption is different than copy protection. Encryption is a technology solution where the PDF owner assigns a password to the…
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How Does USB Copy Protection Work?
Understanding How USB Copy Protection Works In this article we will detail how USB copy protection solutions work from a Southern California company named Nexcopy. Before we start there are important definitions we must all agree upon. As in today’s market place there are multiple vendors using the wrong definitions to explain copy protection. Copy…