21 Dec
2012
21 Dec
'12
3:35 p.m.
On 12/21/2012 12:48 PM, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus wrote:
A caution for USB flash drives, they are VERY static
sensitive, and there is
no way to write protect most of them.
Many govt and high security companies have banned them because on most of
them you can't password protect the entire drive, like you could a floppy.
Yes, you can still encrypt individual files, but that does not meet their
requirements.
Sure Cindy, even PROM can be damaged by ESD, but it's one heckuva lot
easier to back up a USB pen drive that holds 100, a 1000, or 10,000
floppy images than it is to back up floppies individually.
A megabyte just isn't what it used to be.
Anent this, does anyone know of any USB FRAM/MRAM devices? Seems as if
that would be a natural.
--Chuck