by Renaud Bédard
USB KEY MEMORY TECHNOLOGY
by Renaud Bédard


(2007/11/01)

This if for some people in the music, video, or the publishing industy and fans not quite in touch with today's technological reality and soon to coming, now listen good if you don't want to blow away your money on what will be referred soon as useless outdated only good for holiday decoration discs, while speaking of DCs or DVDs of any kind

The age of moving parts discs is coming at an end sooner than expected, the music CD industry just found that out earlier then the movie and the rest of the data storage industry. Today at very cheap prices you can have USB portable memory key chips with the capacity to store 2 Gigabytes, and if you wait for good sales out of high demand periods, you can ever find easily 4 Gygabites USBs. Presently this year some 12 Gygabites USBs have been introduces as well, with word from someone I know in the industry that says in not too long a time you will easily find 20 and 50 Gigabytes portable USBs. Now one CD-ROM holds 0.700 Gigabytes, and one sided single layer DVD holds 4.7 Gigabytes. As reference point, 1 Gygabites equals 1000 Megabits. Those USB portable memory key chips can be very durable, and I know this because I tried to brake one, the internal memory chip that is, with a pair of tough visegrip, and I had a very hard time busting it open, only to see micro circuitry drowns in some harden resin type material. Those USBs with the size of a small key holder that easily by the dozen in your pocket, can store any kind of data from Audio MP3 or any other format, to any video formats, including DVD VOB files, any texts, webpage work, and any picture format. USBs have no internal battery, the energy is feud directly from your machine, whether your PC or whatever media sound Hi-Fi system equipped with a USB connection. Now this is what is available today, with at least a company guaranty of between 2 to 6 years, not to mention titanium built ones, all which does not stop anyone from backing up their stuff in new or better USB style memory chips in the future. Today's IPods fonction with similar memory chips as digital cameras. This technology will even replace Computer harddrive discs, and already does in portable phone/camera/PC combos all in one pocket versions

These days CD music stores are shutting down one by one, specially those that have not got into video DVDs in a big away; but in a not too distant future, I could very well see music, movie, book, comic book, magazins, Newspaper or whatever fans not only download legally online, but also just come up to a machine in a mall or wherever, pay their purchases from a selection list, and have their USB style memory keys feed directly only what they want, as easily as getting a softdrink from a distributing machine, with a larger home memory data bank to store all your favorites

So before asking your favorite publishers to commit to any kind of CD or DVD format which is already technologically outdated today, instead people should ask perhaps for payable downloads online and in shopping centers; but for me personally good old quality paper will never be outdates whether reading my favorite novels or comic book graphic novels

And if I had one recommendation for USB memory chip developer, it would be to think more dual-chip keys for greater data safety insurance, with the same data backed up on a second separate chip in the same memory keys