For example, Imation delivers the ability for administrators to remotely control access to or delete data on its Stealth Zone flash drives, a feature that it hopes to include later this year on the IronKey Workspace drive.Īdditionally, this drive can't be used for external storage, meaning you can't create a separate partition for data storage, and you can't run your computer's native OS and store data on it. The IronKey Workspace is also notably lacking the administrative management features that other Imation drives offer. You can conceivably speed up your computer by using it.'

'In fact, this thing actually runs faster than a lot of internal hard drives. Unlike a normal flash drive, where you might write and read a file to it now and then, you're constantly reading and writing to it,' Gerber says. 'This thing is acting as your hard drive.

And NAND flash wears out fairly quickly without special firmware to extend its life. Then you have to consider that not every USB flash drive is made to take the I/O per second (IOPS) that is required of this drive. Gary Gerber, a senior product marketing manager at IronKey, points out that unless a USB drive is Windows-certified, Microsoft won't support it.

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