Sunday, April 13, 2014

Removable Rewritable Storage

Removable rewritable storage for the masses.
Imagine a fully grown man with hands the size of a baby’s, hands that haven’t developed in sync with the rest of his body. Now think about your computer and its evolution. CPU speeds have increased by leaps and bounds; RAM has multiplied faster than rabbits; and hard drives have grown enormous in order to accommodate gargantuan files. Yet floppy drives have stagnated at a lowly 1.44MB–an anachronism, a throwback to the days when hard drives were measured in kilobytes. Such is the sad state of today’s most common form of removable storage.
In the past, large-capacity removable storage options were strictly the domain of specialized professionals like digital artists. Today, supplementing the floppy drive has become a basic necessity for all computer users. But what should you get? Each product seems to use a different technology and its own type of disk or cartridge.
To make some sense of this confusing environment, we took a look at five different technologies in the removable, rewritable storage game. We rounded up products from each of these categories for the CNET labs to put to the test and reviewed the pros and cons of the specific products, as well as the technologies.
To decide which product is right for you, consider your specific needs, or take a look at “CNET recommends” to see what we liked. Before making any decisions, remember that you can use many of these devices as bootable A: drives and even completely replace the standard floppy with them. Of course, before making your final decision, it pays to take a look at “what the future holds.”
Besides the obvious–the ability to move stored data–we want our removable storage alternative to be both rewritable and affordable. Even within these boundaries, we encountered technologies ranging from rewritable optical disks to magnetic-based media. Rather than pit the various, very disparate products against each other in a mad free-for-all, we’ve arranged them by media type. Read linearly through the different technologies to get a general overview, or click on individual product capsules to see what each device has to offer.
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