Transcript Obsolete (Zip Drive) and Emerging (Flash Drive)Technologies Walden University Emerging Technology EDUC 7108-1 By: Vickie P.

Obsolete (Zip Drive) and
Emerging (Flash
Drive)Technologies
Walden University
Emerging Technology
EDUC 7108-1
By: Vickie P. Murphy
Obsolete Technology
Part 1
• Zip disks
– A removable disk from Iomega that comes in
100MB, 250MB, and later 750MB.
– Reads all but only write to the 250MB disk.
– Could not hold a lot of information.
– Able to hold more student files than the floppy
disk .
– Met the needs of the community college at the
time.
Obsolete Technology
Part 2
• Zip disks
– It could not hold all the information for the
student files for various classes.
– It was not easy to transfer information except you
had a zip drive.
– Zip disk did not come with the computer and
students had to purchase them separately.
– The cost of a zip drive was costly for some
students.
Emerging Technology – Part 1
• USB Drive
– Connect up to 127 peripheral devices such
as keyboards, modems, and mice.
– Completely replace serial and parallel ports.
– Plug and Play installation and hot swapping.
• Can plug in a device without turning off the
computer.
– USB devices can plug into any computer.
– Sizes from 32MB to 128GB
Resources:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/UBS.html
http://newdriverupdate.com
Emerging Technology – Part 2
• What makes the USB something I
want to integrate in my
organization.
– When it can meet the benefits of the
students, Instructors and other
departments.
• The function that the USB fills.
– Being able to use the flash drive in
any computer and take it anywhere
that you go.
– Able to store a lot of information.
Tetrad for Obsolete Technology – Zip Disk
Everyone wants to
save files
Obsoletes the floppy
disk
Zip Disk
Reverses into more
space
Retrieves the ability to
save more information
•Zip Disk was good for saving pictures and student exercises using only one disk without
taking up a lot of space on the drive.
• Zip disk obsolete the floppy disk. Floppy disk only had 1.44MB and students had to use
1-6 floppy disks to do their work.
• Reverse in students being able to store more information and having to buy a zip disk to
use at home.
• Zip Disk was 100 MB, 250 MB and 750 MB. Able to save more files and pictures.
Reference
Retrieved September 15, 2010 from http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci869057,00.html
Tetrad for Emerging Technology – USB
Drive
Plug and Play
Obsoletes the
Zip Drive
USB Drive
Reverses into
four or more
ports
Retrieves
storing
capacity for
256 MB to 1 GB
Plugs into any computer and recognized by Windows immediately. While the computer
is running you can plug and unplug a USB.
• Does not require rebooting, batteries, external power supply and not platform
dependent.
• USB ports can connect many different type of devices into the computer. USB hubs allow
connection of several different devices at once. Can be used to connect up to 127
peripheral devices such as keyboards, scanners, and mice.
• A flash drive sizes ranges from 32MB to 128GB. They can hold from14 photos to 60948.
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Reference
Retrieved September 15, 2010 from http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci869057,00.html
Interviews
• Margaret Chance, Continuing Education
Coordinator, Instructor
• Bambi Edwards, Director Technology
Services/NCCIA Scholarship Chair
• Karen Baker, Former student at Craven
Community College
– Request not to be video or recorded
Interview Questions
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Did you use a zip drive?
Do you feel that it met your needs?
How do you feel about the Zip drive?
Why was it replaced and do you think that it was
a good choice?
5. How do you feel about using USB Drives?
6. Do you think that the school made a good
decision to obsolete the Zip Drive?
7. Do you think that the school made a good
decision replacing the zip with the USB?
Interview Results – Part I
• Those that are interviewed did not want to be
on audio or video so I summarized their
responses.
– Each agreed that they used a zip drive.
– It met their needs and the needs of the students.
– Students were encouraged to buy the zip drive.
– The zip drive was replaced with USB Drives. USB
can store more information, more flexible, sturdy,
and transportable. You can take it everywhere
that you go and plug it into any USB port.
– The USB is high capacity is small space and
compatible with all computers
Interview Results – Part II
• Those that are interviewed did not want to be
on audio or video so I summarized their
responses.
– The school made a good decision to obsolete the
zip drive and replace it with the USB Drive.
– It saves the school and students money.
– It has the space that students need to save files
for their classes and it can be used for years.
Economics plays a big role. When something is
new, better, reliable and reasonable priced; it
serves not just the school better, but our
students.
Six Forces: Evolutionary Technologies on
the Zip Disk Original Emergence
• Evolutionary technology are useful for explaining the
reason the zip drive originally emerged as a new
technology.
– Created for improving storage capacity for computer
users to store files from a single computer or network.
– Considered revolutionary because of the increased
mobile data storage ability available at the time to
100MB of storage where the floppy could hold 10MB.
– Eliminated the large amount of floppy disks to store
information (Waverly, 2009).
Six Forces: Evolutionary Technologies on
Obsolete Technology – Zip Drive Part 1
• Evolutionary technologies are useful for
explaining the zip drive becoming obsolete
due to the flash drives.
– A memory stick on a keychain that can hold form
64MB to 64GB.
– Flash drives are affordable, holds lots of memory
and there is no place for a zip drive (“Askville”).
– Zip disks was eventually rendered obsolete for the
home computing market.
Six Forces: Evolutionary Technologies on
Obsolete Technology – Zip Drive Part II
• Evolutionary technologies are useful for explaining the zip
drive becoming obsolete due to the flash drives.
– Zip disk had a dark secret: it had a problem called “click of
death”.
– The zip disk head would become dirty ripping up the edges
of the diskette causing permanent damage to the disk and
sometimes the drive. It made a clicking sound as the data
was permanently scrubbed away.
– This was found out by many the hard way.
– The disk was poorly constructed and the problem was
corrected adequately. Iomega was taken to court because
of this and the problem became national (Dotree, 2006).
Six Forces: Evolutionary Technologies on
Emerging Technology - USB
• Why evolutionary technologies are useful to
explain why the USB drive replaced the Zip
Drive.
– USB drives date is impervious to being damaged,
scratched or smudged.
– They are extremely robust and strong.
– When made properly the data on a USB will last
50 years.
– Some flash drives can withstand water when
dropped in water (Trembath).
Six Forces: Rhymes of History on Obsolete
Technology’s Original Emergence – Zip Disk
• Rhymes of history was useful in explaining the reason the zip disk
originally emerged as new technology.
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Limited storage limit and slow transfer of speed of the floppy disk made it hard to
transfer files between computers.
The first zip drive emerged in 1994.
Offered the storage capacity of hard drives and portability of floppy drives.
Stored files that were too large for floppy disks.
100MB zip disk could hold 70 floppy disks.
In its day the zip disk was a revolutionary product that offered technology no other
company could match (Humphrey, 2010).
Six Force: Rhymes of History on Obsolete
Technology and Emerging Technology
• Old Technology – Zip Disk
– Never a popular device for
data storage.
– From 1999 to 2003 zip drives
began to plummet due to
USB, DVD+RW, and CD-R cost
and large capacity (“What is a
Zip Drive “).
– Large, expensive, and not a
viable option for computer
users.
– Increase competition with
greater capacity and
depended on less expensive
media began to decline in
1999 (Humphrey, 2010).
• New Technology - USB
– Trek Technology and IBM
started selling flash drives
commercially in 2000.
– Transport and store large
files.
– Uses little power, no fragile
moving parts, and small and
light.
– Read and write without
installing device drivers
(“Wikipedia”).
Six Forces: Disruptive Technology on
Obsolete Technology’s Original Emergence
• Obsolete Technology’s
Original Emergence –
Zip Disk
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Replaced the floppy disk
Reasonable price
Thicker than a floppy
Retroreflective spot to
help the drive identify
the disk as the proper
media
– Transfer data quickly
– Not a popular device for
data storage
• Disruptive Technology
on Obsolete Technology
– USB with large capacities
– Less cost
– Decrease cost of DVD’s &
CD’s (wisegeek)
– Non-existence of parallel
ports
– Growth of hard drives
(Roche)
Six Forces: Disruptive Technology on
Emerging Technology
• Emergence of USB
– Enables huge convenience
– Ease for users
– Carry and store large amounts of data
– Immense speed in sharing data
– Write and erase data at a very high speed
– Mobile and can keep in pocket (Daniel)
Six Forces: Science Fiction on Obsolete
Technology’s Original Emergence
• Science fiction was not useful in explaining the
reason the zip disk originally emerged as a
new technology.
– Did not see anything that triggered the
imagination of inventors.
Six Forces: Science Fiction on USB
(Jump Drive)
• Novel “Forever Man” (1984) starships used
jump drives to make vehicles omnipresent
• Star Wars Series used this technology referred
to as “hyperspace”.
• Stargate film used two jump drives to travel
from one point to another many light years
apart (wikipedia).
Six Forces: Increasing Returns on Obsolete
Technology’s Original Emergence
• There was not another innovation that came
out at the same time as the zip drive.
• It became obsolete because something better
and less expensive came out.
Six Forces: Increasing Returns on Emerging
Technology
• I found no increase returns on emerging
technology for the flash drive.
• It seems to be the only innovation for this
type of storage in 1998.
Six Forces: Red Queens on Obsolete
Technology’s Original Emergence
• Red Queens are useful for the zip disk to
originally emerge as a new technology.
• Floppy disk vs. zip drive
– Both the same size
– Both used to save and send electronic data
– Zip disk more responsible and faster than floppy
– Floppy disk slow, low data capacity, and unreliable
Six Forces: Red Queens on Obsolete Technology
Useful why zip disk became obsolete
• Zip drive
– Installation of software is
required for zip drive
– Disk storage ranges from
64mb to 250 mb
– Some are sensitive to
movement
– Should not be stored
near magnetic objects
• USB
– Plugs directly in the USB
drive
– Do not need software to
install
– Plastic casing does not
get broken and stay dry
– Memory storage of 1-4
gb (Owens)
Six Forces: Red Queens on Emerging
Technology
• Red Queen was not useful in the emergence
of the USB
– No huge competition in the process
– No competitors left behind
– No two technologies trying to achieve the same or
similar goal
– Everything else is not falling aside (Thornburg,
2008).
Speculation on the Future of USB Drives
Part 1
• USB is interconnectable, not easy to bend or
break, and easy to connect. It hosting itself
when paired with another USB device.
• The future (or next) is the USB 3.0 standard
that will work at 4.8 gbps
– Power conservation features
– Increase speed and better power consumption
– 15 minutes to copy a 27gb high definition film
(Goddard).
Speculation on the Future of USB Drives
Part II
• I do not believe that this technology will end
up in the supply closet due to its high
performance, speed, save large files and can
carry it around.
• At this time I do not see any technology to
obsolete the USB. I believe that it will always
be around, smaller and better.
Resources – Part I
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Askville by amazon. Retrieved October 11, 2010 from http://askville.com/zipdrives-obsolete/answerView.do?requestID=7478866
Daniel, J. (n.d.). Retrieved October 25, 2010 from
http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/History-of-USB-Drives/1675995
Doree, P. (2006, December 18). The Iomega zip disk and the click of death.
Retrieved October 11, 2010 from
http://associatedcontent.com/article/101639/the_omega_zip_disk_and_the
_click_of.html?cat=15
Goddard, S.D. (n.d.). USB – Past, present & future. Retrieved October 25, 2010
from http://ezinearticles.com/?USB---Past,-Present-and-Future&id=1594479
Humphrey, A. (2010, March 2). eHow Contributor. The history of the zip disk.
Retrieved October 13, 2010 from
http://www.ehow.com/about_6114057_history-zip-disk.html
Owens, C.S. (n.d.). Retrieved October 25, 2010 from
http://www.ehow.com/about_4794918_zip-drives-vs-flash-drives.html
Resources – Part II
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Roche, N. (2007, April 15). The omega zip drive – a quick history. Retrieved
October 25, 2010 from Waverly, J.S. (2009, August 3). The history of zip
drives. Retrieved October 11, 2010 from
http://www.ehow.com/about_5256126_history_zip_drives.html
Thornburg, D. (2008c.) Red Queens, butterflies, and strange attractors: Imperfect
lenses into emergent technologies. Lake Barrington, IL: Thornburg Center
for Space Exploration.
Trembath, C. (n.d.). USB drives – their history and evolution in modern society.
Retrieved October 11, 2010 from http://ezinarticles.com/?USBDrives--Their-History-and-Evolution-in-Modern-Society&id=3290557
USB flash drive. (2010, October 13). Retrieved October 13, 2010 from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive#History
Waverly, J.S. (2009, August 3). The history of zip drives. Retrieved October 11,
2010 from http://www.ehow.com/about_5256126_history_zip_drives.html
What is a zip drive? Retrieved October 13, 2010 from
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-zip-drive.htm
Jump drive. Retrieved October 25, 2010 from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_drive