Para aquellas situaciones en las que le gustaría evitar que el usuario final pueda eliminar o alterar sus datos, puede utilizar la tecnología Dual Zone de Flashbay.
Nuestro proceso de formato especial crea una solución basada en hardware que combina la flexibilidad de una memoria USB tradicional con la seguridad y fiabilidad de un disco CD-ROM.
Esto ofrece una gran solución si lo que busca es proporcionar información a la que desea que el usuario final tenga siempre acceso, pero también desea permitirle guardar y modificar sus propios datos en la memoria USB como está acostumbrado a hacer.
Cuando se inserta la memoria en el puerto USB, aparecen dos iconos distintos en la pantalla: uno da acceso a la zona de CD-ROM de sólo lectura y el otro permite acceder a la zona de memoria USB estándar para abrir, modificar y guardar archivos del mismo modo que en una memoria USB normal.
El ordenador actúa en todos los sentidos como si se hubieran conectado dos dispositivos distintos cada vez que utilice una memoria USB Dual Zone de Flashbay, lo cual aporta la flexibilidad para permitir a sus usuarios finales almacenar sus propios archivos al mismo tiempo que se asegura de que sus datos importantes siguen estando visibles, disponibles y protegidos.
Autor: Sam Sanchez
Hi John, Good questions. 1) Each zone is assigned a specific proportion of the physical memory in the flash drive. The CD ROM zone is sized to be sufficient to hold the content that the customer would like to be read-only with the remainder of the capacity of the drive belonging to the standard USB flash drive zone. 2) The data to be written to the CD ROM zone must be provided to us as part of the order process and we will pre-load the data onto the flash drive. The data in the CD ROM zone cannot be changed by customers.
(1) Do both drives share the total memory capacity of the drive or is there some fixed split? (2) How does the publisher write data to the protected drive and then protect it?
Hi Gary - copy protection of the partitioned data would require the use of third-party DRM software. The most common type of copy protection for CD media is intended to prevent unauthorised copying of music from audio CDs. Unfortunately the methods used cannot be applied to data CDs such as the one employed on the dual zone flash drive as they would render the data unreadable. If you protect your data using a suitable DRM solution prior to the creation of the flash drives then you could achieve your goal of restricting access to the included files to only authorised users. Flashbay however do not specifically support or endorse any particular DRM product.
It certainly would be nice if the partitioned data could be protected from copying. Any thoughts on that?
Hi Roger - the data is always protected. In the same way that you can't format a CDROM, you also can't format the read only partition of the dual zone flash drive. So your data, (e.g. a company presentation) will always be locked down on the read only partition, and the user can use the other read/write partition for their own files
That's pretty neat, so does a full format of the USB drive manage to delete the data?
