All kinds of digital electronic products more popular with the widespread application of Internet, and mobile concept continuous develop from business to personal entertainment and other fields, storage needs for personal data, especially for mobile storage becomes faster and faster. In past three years, external hard drives are finally getting a much-needed makeover by consumers and business users in the mobile storage market, because it have higher access speeds, easier access to the process relative to the optical storage medium (such as CDRW DVDRW, etc.), and more large-capacity, lower prices and other advantages relative to the flash memory (U-disk), the market space is also growing. But the external hard disk market has shown the direction and development trends that can be grasped in a highly competitive market.
Trend 1: The volume minimized, Maximum capacity
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It means easy to carry and lots of space. IBM released the first 1-inch micro hard drive which capacity is 340MB in 1999, but in 2000 it creased to 1GB, now the product of 1-inch micro hard drives already can provide more than 4GB storage space, while the disc body is very small and slim enough to apply in a variety of consumer electronic products. Currently configured as a removable hard disk standard, 2.5-inch notebook hard drives also reached the maximum capacity of 120GB, almost equivalent to the current mainstream desktop hard drive capacity.
The Trend of the External Hard Disk in the Future
Although 1.8-inch hard drive come into the mobile storage market later, but it perfectly solved the contradiction between size and capacity.
Capacity of 1.8-inch hard drive approximately is 50-75% of 2.5-inch hard drive, but compared with the 2.5-inch hard drive, it more thinner, smaller and lighter. Silicon Pa's smallest and the latest mobile hard disk Buslink launched to the global market, 1.8-inch, compact structure, exquisite design, ensuring the best operation, the volume of the entire product is 68mm × 91mm × 15mm, equal to 1 / 2 of the traditional 2.5-inch external hard disk, is the world's smallest external hard drives. As more small portable devices to market with dozens of GB of internal storage space required, we will see 1.8-inch mobile hard disk will be more and more applications.
Trend 2: speed - the access speed of data
The access speed of mobile storage devices are still have great space for acceleration. First, the standard of mobile hard disk interface upgraded from USB1.1 to USB2.0, this is an important milestone on the development of external hard disk. The traditional USB 1.1 specification is specifically designed for low-speed communication equipment, which determines its maximum data transfer rate can reach 12Mbps, but due to extensive use of large files such as various video and audio, database and game software, the access speeds of external storage products has been challenged.
USB2.0 interface, data transfer rate can achieve 480Mbps, substantially increased data transmission speed. Currently a growing number of mobile storage products have begun to support the USB2.0 interface on the market.
Is it USB2.0 interface standard has achieved the limit of mobile transmission speed yet? Are there any possible to be faster interface standards in the near future?
Trend 3: Practical - integration of multiple technologies
In 2009, multimedia external hard drive have already integrated features suitable for mass consumer, such as play high-definition movie, directly download high-definition movie players. A good combination of data storage and audio video entertainment!
Trend 4: Secure Storage
Data confidentiality, stability as a product selling point is a direct and can not be missing. And this trend is an important guarantee of an external hard disk creating a niche in the mobile market, but compared with flash memory, external hard disk is temporarily at a disadvantage in earthquake and safety, but HDD makers has never stopped exploration on earthquake and security. Meanwhile, in the market, there are also a growing number of products in the direction towards the development of hardware-based encryption.
Trend 5: Fashion Appearance
As the development of any electronic products, external hard drives users has the same requirements to stylish appearance of products, especially when it is a portable consumer durables and could show to others.
In addition to the appearance of external hard drive is more smaller volume, lighter and cuter, its material properties, handle, decoration, color, product shape, the same as consumers demanding conditions. Mini (mini) represents not simple, but the quality of simultaneous promotion, internally and externally aesthetic.
While the future market competition will become more intense, but external hard drives advances in technology will give users a better experience: smaller size, more space, more stylish appearance, more secure, feature more diverse, external hard drives market share will be steadily increasing in the mobile storage.
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