Burning CDs is slow and impractical when at a clients site. In addition, who wants to leave behind their 16GB flash drive with a mix of personal and professional information? With that said, we designed a small pack of drives we could tear and use when needed. Since we travel and present files to clients […]
The Belkin Gigabit USB 2.0 Network Adapter lets you easily tap into a gigabit network without needing the specific Ethernet Gig card. The Adapter is backward-compatible with all existing 10/100 networks. With a simple insert to your USB port the adapter will instantly allow you to
The Silver Bullet of multimedia players is the new Toshiba Gigabeat – one look and a silver bullet will go right through your heart and you’ll be in love forever – oh, wait that’s cupid. Anyway, Toshiba’s snazzy, silver Gigabeat MEG-F40S packs a 1.8-inch Toshiba hard drive capable of holding an incredible 40 GB of […]
What Starts as a “Free Storage System” Turns Into a Slow-Motion Disaster the Moment USB Flash Meets NAS-Level Workloads Everyone has that drawer. You know the one. A tech graveyard packed with five different charging cables from extinct phones, a random SIM tool that’s definitely not from your phone, and a fistful of old USB […]
USB 5Gbps — The “Hold My Beer, I’m Fast Enough” Speed Look, if USB had a middle child, this would be it. Five gigabits per second sounds impressive until you realize it’s basically the cousin who runs a 5K once a year and brags about it all Christmas. It works. It transfers your files. It […]
Not All ISOs Are Equal: Why Windows Installer ISOs Break USB Duplication Most people assume an ISO file is universal. If a file ends in “.iso,” it must behave like every other ISO, right? In the USB duplication world, that assumption causes more confusion than anything else. Customers load a Microsoft Windows installer ISO into […]
How USB took over everything—from the clunky one-way Type-A to today’s reversible USB-C—told from our bar-stool friend after a couple drinks. You ever notice how USB just kind of became the thing that runs everything in your life? One day we’re plugging in beige printers with cables thick enough to tow a car, and the […]
If you’ve been hearing about a new technology standard called GPMI and wondering what it is, you’re not alone. So what is GPMI? To the best or our knowledge this is what GPMI is: A group of over 50 Chinese companies also known as the “Shenzhen 8K UHD Video Industry Cooperation Alliance,” announced this new […]
It’s mind blowing to think that storing a terabyte of data used to cost about 100 billion dollars. Nowadays it fits on a $20 flash drive (MSRP is closer to $100) In 1956, IBM introduced the first hard drive, the IBM 305 RAMAC, which had a storage capacity of about 5 megabytes (MB). The cost […]
The C2C caberQU is a USB board to test a USB-C cable in a variety of situations or configurations. This handy tool for computer professionals will check USB-C cables in great detail and down to every pin found inside a USB-C cable. It applies voltage to all the pins in a cable and detects which […]
Microsoft has not made an official announcement on: Why Did Microsoft Drop Formatting FAT32 for 64GB and Above? In both Windows 10 and Windows 11 the format option given by Windows is either NTFS (New Technology File System) or exFAT (Extended File System). The option to format FAT32 is no long available in Windows. Without […]
Most USB specification speeds are shown in Mbps or Megabits per second, but nearly all users reference data storage in MB (Megabytes) or GB (Gigabytes) so this post converts the Mbps rate to MB/second and presents them in a picture graph. Scroll down to see the image. In the year 1995 seven companies came together […]