With the development of other external storage devices, Memory Stick is going to extinction, especially some cheap memory sticks brands. Besides, there are many users including users who have to share files within companies still like sharing files with physical medium like Memory Stick.
USB memory stick has certain super-smart uses such as the updatable marketing feature of GigMark. Though the memory stick itself can carry a tactile marketing message in the way that an application performs on your smartphone, all the USB sticks on your shelf will be covered with dust before long. As the existence of tools that enable you to access and store the data in a more convenient and faster way, they will change your way to assess data.
So, it is no strange that the memory stick will disappear from your vision one day. However, adapters were soon developed that allowed the memory stick to function with any laptop that contained a PC card.
The device was touted as a much simpler means of storing large data files than the relatively bulky flash memory devices of the day. Over the years, memory sticks have continued to evolve. Newer releases of the stick allowed the device to keep pace with the increased demand for music and video files, and other types of data storage that have become commonplace. Magneto-resistive heads gave the an advantage over its competitors, as the bits could be stored more densely.
Magneto-Optical Discs are introduced. Housed in cartridges, they are a combination a magnetic and optical storage, as their name suggests. They could be rewritten up to one million times. SanDisk, which at time was known as SunDisk, manufactured the module which used non-volatile memory chips to replace the spinning disks of a hard disk drive.
SanDisk recognized that handheld devices and computers were becoming lighter and smaller, and that flash memory, as was used in the SSD module, offered powerful advantages over hard disks. Storage Tek announces upgrades to its ACS tape library. This tape robot was used in a variety of installations, and one was used at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center now the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to store data from experiments, providing medium-speed access to immense amounts of data.
Storage Tek was one of the first major players in the automated tape library sector, and competed with IBM for market share. When CompactFlash is introduced by SanDisk, it is quickly adopted and becomes the preferred memory storage option in many consumer as well as professional electronic devices.
It was highly popular in digital still and video cameras, and although its dimensions were slightly larger than some other memory card formats, its ruggedness and high capacity made it a preferred choice.
Although most CompactFlash units used flash memory, some actually relied on a hard disk. The Iomega Zip Disk is released. Later versions increased the capacity of a single disk from MB to 2GB. Two groups, made up mainly of Japanese technology companies, had been developing competing, optical disc storage formats. In order to avoid a format war akin to the VHS versus Betamax clash of the s, IBM initiated a working group of technology experts that brokered the competition. After compromises from both sides, the DVD format was formalized.
DVDs came in both read-only and read-write formats, and were widely adopted in the film industry for consumer releases of movies. Its better audio and video quality, interactivity, and improved lifespan effectively rendered the VHS format obsolete.
Its successor was the Blu-ray disc. This optical disc was used for data storage and in the backing up and transferring of files to various devices. It was less robust than some contemporary storage media, and could only be re-written roughly 1, times.
However, this factor seldom encumbered users who rarely overwrote data that often on one disc. At the time of their introduction, they were the smallest hard drives in the world. Like all hard drives, Microdrives were mechanical and contained small, spinning disk platters, and were more prone to physical damage from temperature fluctuations and physical shock than other storage media.
Hitachi purchased IBM's hard disk division in , which included the Microdrive. For several years, Microdrives had more data capacity than CompactFlash cards, but were soon overtaken by the these and by USB flash drives. Many handheld, mobile devices contained embedded Microdrives for data storage.
USB Flash drives are introduced. Sometimes referred to as jump drives or memory sticks, these drives consisted of flash memory encased in a small form factor container with a USB interface. They could be used for data storage and in the backing up and transferring of files between various devices. They were faster and had greater data capacity than earlier storage media.
Also, they could not be scratched like optical discs and were resilient to magnetic erasure, unlike floppy disks. Drives for floppy disks and optical discs faded in popularity for desktop PCs and laptops in favor of USB ports after flash drives were introduced. Developed by a technology industry consortium, the Blu-ray optical disc is released.
It was intended to be the successor to the DVD, and was designed to store high definition video at p, while older DVDs were only capable of p resolution. The disc was named for the relatively short wavelength blue laser that reads the data on the disc, which was capable of reading data stored at a higher density compared to the red laser used for reading DVDs. A brief storage format battle ensued between Blu-ray and HD DVD, a format that was being supported in an effort spearheaded by Toshiba.
Blu-ray ultimately prevailed. Amazon Web Services is launched. EC2 allowed users to rent virtual time on the cloud to scale server capacity quickly and efficiently while only paying for what was used. Use of the cloud eliminates the need for a company to maintain a complex computing infrastructure on their own. Additionally, it saved space and hassle in the form of less onsite server room square footage. S3 was a cloud-based file hosting service that charged users monthly for the amount of data stored and for the bandwidth of transferring data.
Similar services, like Google Drive, followed suit and created their own proprietary services. An external hard disk can store very large amounts of data, eg 1 TB , and can be plugged into your computer via a USB or FireWire port to provide extra storage.
They're essentially the same as the hard disk in your computer but due to the casing are usable externally. A memory stick is a 'pen top' sized USB device and can be used in a similar way to a floppy disk but it is inserted into the USB port - it is then seen by the computer as a removable drive. They typically come in sizes from MB to 32 GB upwards depending on the price paid.
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