Printers, phones, laptops, even particularly high tech coffee makers. Everything in our daily lives has a network connection to the other devices around them. By utilizing this connectivity, the USB Network Gate allows you to connect to remote USB devices over the internet and local networks as if they were directly connected to your computer. […]
Palm Pre owners might find a small window of opportunity to sync their device with iTunes for easy music browsing, listening and downloading. In short, someone figured out how to have the Palm Pre appear as an iPod to iTunes by chancing the VendorID of the Palm. Meaning – iTunes thinks its an iPod, but […]
Some interesting news about iPhone sync speed and the use of USB hubs. I seriously doubt there is an issue with USB 2.0 specification so this must be related more towards the USB stack the iPhone uses with their chip. Apparently having the iPhone connected to a USB hub for sync will slow the process. […]
Samsung announced a new 19-inch LCD monitor called, the SyncMaster 940UX, which can be connected to a PC using only a USB port. I’ve been saying this for years, but a move like this from Samsung once again proves my point…USB is king of plug-n-play solutions. The SyncMaster approach of USB connectivity for monitors eliminates […]
Synchronization software sounds like a utility which seems valuable and worth-while, but many software packages fail on execution because the user interface isn’t logical or you get conflict errors with the device. So, to compile features which are intuitive enough to use without difficulty, yet perform
Most synchronization software claims to synchronize your files, but simply copy from place to place. GoodSync offers true bi-directional synchronization, which prevents deletion of files and data loss. GoodSync uses an innovative algorithm to sync your data between desktop PCs, laptops, USB drives and more. Real two-way file and folder synchronization or one-way synchronization. Sync […]
Every few months, it happens. Someone walks into the IT department holding a microSD card and asks a perfectly reasonable question: “Can we just change the CID on this?” The IT guy looks at the card. Then at the person. Then takes a slow breath. It’s not that the question is wrong. It’s just built […]
Are Micro-Writes Secretly Killing Your SSD? Let’s Calm This Down. If you’ve been following storage headlines lately, you’ve probably seen a wave of articles claiming your SSD is being quietly worn down by background activity — browser cache updates, telemetry logs, tiny 4KB writes stacking up until your drive fails prematurely. It makes for a […]
Understanding the Difference Between Firmware Identity and Software Simulation At some point, almost everyone working with USB media runs into the same question: Can I make a USB flash drive appear as a CD-ROM drive? The question usually comes up when someone wants something to auto-launch, behave like a software installer, or function in a […]
Micron just launched the first PCIe 6.0 SSD — the Micron 9650 — capable of sustained reads up to 28GB per second and write speeds over 14GB per second. That’s not incremental. That’s architectural. On paper, it doubles the throughput of PCIe 5.0. Random reads reach into the multi-million IOPS range. For AI data centers […]
For years we’ve been told that hard drives fail, tape must be refreshed, and flash memory slowly forgets. Then along comes a headline claiming scientists have invented a glass storage medium that could preserve data for 10,000 years. That sounds dramatic. It also sounds like marketing. So instead of repeating the headline, let’s walk through […]
What an AI Server Really Looks Like When You Open the Lid There’s a lot of noise right now about AI using “too much memory.” Prices are up. Supplies are tight. Everyone says demand is exploding. You’ve probably read that already. But most of what’s written skips the most important part: what an AI computer […]
