Silicon Power A50 - the shockproof media
Anyone who has been dealing with hardware for a long time like us knows that there has been a huge development in the field of data storage, so portable data storage, in the last decade. This is not surprising, of course, as other hardware components have evolved and we need more and more storage space. One of the reasons for this lack of storage is the development of multimedia content, including videos. Compression algorithms with better efficiency come in vain, if the resolution of the videos increases in the meantime, and even with the spread of the MKV format, it is no longer unusual for subtitles or audio to be available in 2-3 languages in addition to a movie.
Anno was also very happy with the 1,44 ”floppy, and nowadays the 64 or 128 MB flash drive feels ridiculously small. So the capacity of the storage media is constantly growing and growing, and somehow there is never enough that is available. A few years ago, a 20 or 40 GB portable hard drive was enough for almost anything, but nowadays, copies over 100 gigabytes are not a curiosity at all.
However, the development of portable storage could not have come about without the development of another technology, USB. The USB port is also evolving, we are currently in the triple version. Development is essential here as well, as more and more amounts of data need to be copied from our machine to the portable drive or back to our machine, and who is willing to splurge hours next to the machine for a simple copy operation?
The development of external storage and the USB port was intertwined, and the floppy disk was replaced by USB flash drives. However, for the reasons mentioned above, it is common for a flash drive to not have sufficient capacity. Of course, these cases occur not only because of multimedia content, but also because the number of netbook users is growing at a crazy pace. On these machines, the storage is usually quite small (in terms of storage capacity, of course), so a portable hard drive may be available.
However, portable hard drives have a huge disadvantage over flash memory devices, and that is the risk of injury. While flash drives don’t contain moving parts, a portable hard drive does, and no one needs to brush up on how much a hard drive likes to be dropped. Not much! Fortunately, more and more manufacturers are trying to start something with this problem. Let's see how you did with Silicon Power!
