Taking it with you: removable storage

 Removable storage

  USB memory keys
  Flash memory cards
  Micro hard disk drives
  Portable HDD units
  Magnetic memory
  Optical memory

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Removable storage There's a confusing array of portable, removable, and mobile memory products out there -- how do you pick one that suits your business requirements?

With the recent leaps in portable memory products now on the market it seemed appropriate to have a look at this field to try and sort the wheat from the chaff or the VHS from the BetaMax.

So what exactly is removable storage and how can it be used for revenue generating business, not just taking photos and listening to digital music?

Removable storage is as its name logically suggests any data storage medium that can be removed from the host system and used in a similar port or device on another system or indeed on the original host system. There are many different types of removable data storage types from the common flash memory cards (SD, MMC, Compact Flash, Memory Stick) through to disk-based media such as Zip, CDR/W, and DVDR/W.

As far as ROI goes one just needs to look at the time these devices can save, either through getting work done more quickly or efficiently to saving precious data from disaster and/or recovery time once the pending disaster has occurred.

In this review we have been sent several devices that show what a wide range of applications and areas these products cover. Each device has its own pros and cons, be it small form factor that can limit the physical size of the media, to a proprietary termination that means the storage medium itself needs a specific device to read/write to it.

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