USB flash drives, of course, went on to be a huge business that changed the industry, and how we use computers. He just looked at me and clearly didn't get it.
After the session I told the conference organizer that this giveaway was the biggest thing of the entire conference. This had to be the start of something big. But here was a this small, handy little stick that was like an external hard disk but plugged right into a USB port.
There were a few peripherals here and there that used USB, and that was it. The USB interface was still new and its promise largely unfilled. I could drag files from it to me Thinkpad, and from the Thinkpad to that external storage volume on what was the first USB key I had ever seen. I stuck it into my IBM Thinkpad and after a bit of milling, Windows 2000 informed me that I now had an 8MB external disk. It had a cap on it and under the cap was a USB connector. They are a perfect in-between.Īlmost a quarter of a century ago I was at a mobile computing conference, and the goodie bag included this strange thing about the size of a Swiss Army pocket knife. USB keys are not as small and fragile as SD cards (and especially the very small microSD versions) and not as large as external hard drives. We use them for data backup, to make data portable, as a convenient way to share documents and images with friends and colleagues, and just generally as a very handy way to store and transport files. USB keys have very much become part of our lives. The article also touches on the history and use of USB keys, the increasing need for security, applying security technologies and certifications, and, of course, about the two products themselves. The IronKey Vault Privacy 80 also offers business-grade security but comes in a larger package with its own 2.75-inch touch screen and storage capacity up to almost two terabyte.
The IronKey Vault Privacy 50 Series provides business-grade security, looks just like a standard USB key, and is currently available with up to 256GB of storage. This article is about two new products in Kingston Technology's line of encrypted Vault Privacy USB Flash Drives and External solid state drives. Two new protected, encrypted external data storage options that'll let you sleep easier at night, knowing your data is safe and secure and no one can get to it Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 50 Series and 80 External SSD
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