pctechguide.com

USB Flash Drives

These are not “drives” at all – the misnomer was gained as they were intended to replace old portable drive technology. Offering massive storage and access fast enough for boot facilities, USB Flash Drives are arguably the best current portable RAM for PCs.

Filed Under: Portable RAM

Latest Articles

Ransomware Operators Find Data Theft Profitable

How valuable is your data? That’s not a question that organizations or individuals have to ask themselves all that often. You might know the market value of your company, have a good idea of how much your business makes per day, or have worried about what would happen if some of your most sensitive … [Read More...]

Fax Modems

Nearly all modems now include some sort of fax capability and usually come with bundled software which provides a PC with most of the functionality of a fax machine. Digital documents can be converted to analogue, ending up as an image file (if the receiver is another fax/modem), or a printed … [Read More...]

Hard Disk MR Technology

In 1991, IBM's work on AMR technology led to the development of MR (magnetoresistive) heads capable of the areal densities required to sustain the disk drive industry's continued growth in capacity and performance. These circumvented the … [Read More...]

Guides

Recent Posts

Laser Mice

In 2004, Logitech, with the help of technology innovator partner Agilent Technologies, took the first step beyond LED … [Read More...]

Modulation

Communication channels like telephone lines are usually analogue media. Analogue media is a bandwidth limited channel. In … [Read More...]