The USB Drive for Lazy People

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[citation][nom]Silmarunya[/nom]Not very useful... And how many people store porn on a flash drive?[/citation]

...guys that don't want evidence on their hard drive, guys that picked up a thumb drive off their bosses' desk with his fingerprints on it, ....

 

[Guest]

Tom's already reported this device on March 3, which is when your source article was written:

http/www.tomsguide.com/us/Disco-USB-Memory-Stick-Flash,news-5998.html

 

[ssddx]

How well this sells will be determined by its price. If its on par with existing models this will most likely sell decently. IMHO i'd rather have a small lcd/oled that scrolls through a list of filenames stored on the device over a generic color coded schema. Even if the device was 3x a normal flash drives physical size. That said, groovy!

 

[jojesa]

Wow....I bet you also discovered the warm water theory.

[citation][nom]pei-chen[/nom]The technology behind this is so simple I can't believe Tom's people think this is hard to make.The LED will only come on when pressed. It will be powered by a small rechargeable battery that got recharged every time it is connected. The computer will also tell the flash how full it is every time something is transferred or taken out of it.[/citation]

 

[Clintonio]

[citation][nom]pei-chen[/nom]The technology behind this is so simple I can't believe Tom's people think this is hard to make.The LED will only come on when pressed. It will be powered by a small rechargeable battery that got recharged every time it is connected. The computer will also tell the flash how full it is every time something is transferred or taken out of it.[/citation]

More correctly;
I'd expect that regardless of how it is powered, the lights are based on a simple logic board hooked up to the NAND modules using some kind of encoder to tell it which blocks are used, which aren't, how they're grouped, then finally, and with simple hardware, turning it into a series of on/off's for the LEDs.
I could probably, given a little more knowledge of how flash memory is configured, create a simple, alas, inefficient, prototype myself.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Sound more like this would be for people with bad memory like my grandfather, but he'd forget what the colors mean anyway.

 

[vant]

[citation][nom]AlreadyReported[/nom]Tom's already reported this device on March 3, which is when your source article was written:http/www.tomsguide.com/us/Disco- [...] -5998.html[/citation]
Looks like Tom's will have a reporter position available very soon!

 

[ukgooey]

[citation][nom]Silmarunya[/nom]Not very useful... And how many people store porn on a flash drive?[/citation]

Why, where do you hide yours?

 

[mickey21]

Lexar has long since already made a USB drive with this feature and I have used and owned mine for several years. The Lexar model shows in black and white lcd bar graph that remains displayed even when the drive is not connected and for months and months after its last usage. So this new drive uses color, not a big deal imo... I do find the screen mildly helpful, but only adds slightly to the USB drives, which these days, there isnt much that seperates them...

http/www.lexar.com/jumpdrive/jd_secureII_plus.html

 

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[citation][nom]anbaxter[/nom]zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz[/citation]

Don't worry about him folks, this flash drive glows blue when trolls are near.

 

[babybeluga]

[citation][nom]_cubase_[/nom]Don't worry about him folks, this flash drive glows blue when trolls are near.[/citation]

I feel gay for even understanding that joke.

 

[spoofedpacket]

Perhaps they should at least have a picture of an actual product and not a render before they get free advertising.

 

[Pei-chen]

Wow, Tom's are either filled with idiots that don’t know the simplest solution is the best solution or they are all electrical engineers.

I guess that’s why people invented solar powered flash light.

 

[soundefx]

I think that people might forget the colour code and still wouldn't know how much space is being used.

 

[Vorador2]

Beautiful looking, but useless. Still, in a oversaturated market, something different like this can make a sale.

 

[ksampanna]

[citation][nom]mianmian[/nom]He should add sound indicator:Your drive has 2.4G of porn, 0.1G of documents and rest are filled with trash.[/citation]
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