Engineering:Universal Storage Media
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Universal Storage Media (USM) is used to describe devices that when connected to a computer, will show up as a storage device (without the installation of additional drivers).
Since the hard drive is a very expensive part of any device, this standard is designed to allow a hard drive to be carried from one machine to another, or rotated among backup generations (current generation (e.g. current month); prior generation (e.g. previous month...) wherein the oldest generation becomes overwritten by the newest generation [1]
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 14, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130514035605/http://www.sata-io.org/documents/SATA-IO-Whitepaper_USM.pdf. Retrieved February 23, 2013.