1GB USB Flash Drives are great; they are plug and play; they hold more data than CDs; you don't have to worry about your USB drive becoming out of date (I had this experience recently with my DVD-RW); you don't get confused between DVD+R or DVD-R; they don't scratch; they're small; you can put them on your key ring; simply put they are the perfect solution for your personal data storage.
The USB Flash Drive has come along and rendered the Floppy Disk virtually extinct. The Floppy disk was a horrible piece of work: always letting you down when you could least afford it; corrupting your essays the day before hand in; spreading viruses like the plague; running out of space; generally being slow and annoying; the list could go on. The point is the arrival of the USB flash drive thankfully got rid of all this and we should be grateful.
The problem is USB flash drives were wonderful as they were right around the gigabyte mark, but they've carried on getting better 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and now 32GB! Like an 8 year old who check mates you in 4 moves, flash drives have actually become too good and spoilt it! Companies and government departments are now so worried that you could potentially walk out of the office with the entire customer database or worse the family tax credits database, that they have started disabling the USB Flash Drives on work PCs. Employees are dreading the new batch of computers as they know full well the USB Drives aren't going to work.
Is this however an overreaction to a problem that exists with all portable storage (including laptops) if it gets lost or stolen, someone could get their hands on the data and use it for fraudulent purposes. Surely the same technologies that allow you to encrypt a hard drive could be adapted to make USB flash drives secure?
The answer to this is yes there are many possible solutions from none technical solutions like setting a company policy on the use of flash drives to technical solutions such as flash drive encryption. The problem is many of the technical solutions are expensive and policy rules often get broken. No doubt, however, the price of these security technologies will come down and become easy to implement - then the flash drive can go back to being a best friend.
Chris Proth takes a keen interest on the implications of advances in computer technology and for USB Flash Drives Chris Proth recommends Flashbay Ltd.
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