A-DATA “my Flash” Fingerprint Disk review @ NordicHardware

Iria · Jul 2, 2006, 03:35 PM

Review: Nordic Hardware
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The floppy disc has long been a necessary evil to any computer user and in all honesty the floppy disc has survived a couple more years than it should. The use of floppy discs today is almost extinct but there are still occasions where this ancient tool is needed, although these situations can be almost always be solved by other means as the author has for the last 2-3 years. This is also how long time ago a floppy disc drive last occupied the author's computer and all I can say is: -Good riddance!

The unofficial successor to the floppy disc drive is without a doubt the USB memory. In the last years, the market for USB memory, called anything from thumb drive to pocket memory, increased immensely, so comparing a USB memory to a floppy disc drive is to ridicule the aforementioned. A floppy disc has a storage capacity of 1.44MB where a USB memory can be found ranging from 16 MB up to a whopping 8GB. The storage capacity is increasing practically on a daily basis and a storage capacity of 512MB is relatively common today. The transfer speed of the USB memory is in most cases 20-40 times faster and the only thing the computer need to have is a USB port to read the stored information. There are several advantages to using a USB memory and one that is specially interesting for this review, is the possibility to safeguard the stored information.

Jul 2, 2006, 03:35 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 74	A-DATA “my Flash” Fingerprint Disk review @ NordicHardware Review: Nordic Hardware __________ The floppy disc has long been a necessary evil to any computer user and in all honesty the floppy disc has survived a couple more years than it should. The use of floppy discs today is almost extinct but there are still occasions where this ancient tool is needed, although these situations can be almost always be solved by other means as the author has for the last 2-3 years. This is also how long time ago a floppy disc drive last occupied the author's computer and all I can say is: -Good riddance! The unofficial successor to the floppy disc drive is without a doubt the USB memory. In the last years, the market for USB memory, called anything from thumb drive to pocket memory, increased immensely, so comparing a USB memory to a floppy disc drive is to ridicule the aforementioned. A floppy disc has a storage capacity of 1.44MB where a USB memory can be found ranging from 16 MB up to a whopping 8GB. The storage capacity is increasing practically on a daily basis and a storage capacity of 512MB is relatively common today. The transfer speed of the USB memory is in most cases 20-40 times faster and the only thing the computer need to have is a USB port to read the stored information. There are several advantages to using a USB memory and one that is specially interesting for this review, is the possibility to safeguard the stored information.