Jonathan Wang

CISB 11-CRN 10256

07/04/10

Chapter 3 Assignment: Storage Devices and Manufacturers

Storage

Hard Drives

 

Western Digital has been a manufacturing company of hard drive since 1970. They are now a leading manufacture of internal hard drives, external hard drives, and also entertainment hard drives. The company keeps up to date with latest technology along with using the new interface of Super Speed USB 3.0. They have specialized on the hard drive capacity with a maximum amount of 2 TB space storage now and the security being are proud of it.

 

I mostly like their hard drives. There is no other brand that is as popular as their brand and is that much high quality. The only other brand that is probably with the same quality as them but mostly works on internal hard drives instead of external is Fujitsu.

 

CD/DVD writer/player

 

Lite On is a world leading corporation base on Lite-On Taiwan group. They started with optical disk drives (ODD) during 1995 and decided to dedicate themselves to high quality CD-ROM drives. They also study in several other stuff such as LEDs, semiconductors, computer chassis, monitors, motherboards, DVD & CD devices, and other electronic components. In 2007, they joined Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS). They have 29 branches worldwide including one in California.

 

I am not really an enthusiast of CD, DVD, and BD drives. The company is widely popular of those who buy disk drives. I have a DVD R/RW drive of theirs and have not found any problems.

 

Flash Memory drive (USB)

 

SanDisk has been just around a dozen years for flash memory products. It was founded in 1988 by 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory technology experts. They are known mostly because of the products they make. They have flash memory for mobile devices such as cell phones, cameras, music players, computers, gaming, and many other types. The headquarters is in Milpitas, California.

 

What I like about SanDisks USB flash drives is how they have a few custom designs. One design they have that I have found that no other flash drive manufacture does not have is their ability to make flash drives with titanium covers. This is useful to me cause it shows how flash drives can be worth more than just an ordinary flash drive that you can keep buying for $10. I own one of their titanium 2GB flash drives and it has never broke even though I have dropped it on the ground a couple dozen times.

 

 

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