August 2, 2010
The History from the Disc Drive to the USB
17 years ago floppydisks were still used as carrier medium. The laptops of today do not still have a floppy disc anymore, and so there are not in a position to read them. Plastic cards have 1.44 MB disk space. You could format them as required and to store new venues. Next was the CD-ROM.A half century ago, the laptops had indeed already a classical CD-ROM drive, but it took some time to have the CD burner fitted as standard in laptops. Until then, there were many programmes to buy on CDs, but data storage was not possible on them. Quite at the same time then the USB sticks, SD cards and external hard drives came to the market.
The data storage medium of today
The Micro SD card has the benefit that it is smaller and is used as a storage medium in digital cameras, for example. As a storage medium away of such devices, it is rarely used, because not every laptop has a SD cart reader. Therefore these cameras always are supplied with wire to connect the device directly to the PC. The external drive has massive memory space, the current ones have 1000 GB, or 1 TB in size. However, most need an external own power source, they ar massive and unwieldy. Better as this is the Memory sticks. All PCs have a USB connection, the stick needs little power and is easy to take in your pocket. These 3 storage media are always refined and getting more and more storage space. The latest speed of development is such that the capacity every year doubles. Still not in price. A year ago you got an external hard disc drive with 500 GB for about 100 . Today they are twice as large for the same cost.
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