Product Idea: USB Flash Drives

[Arwen]

In regards to testing, @dsimic you have a good point about insertion. However, perhaps that can be simulated by having the host port's USB power turned off. Something like this;

- Start with USB port power off
- Plug in USB storage device
- Initiate automated testing, which turns power on

During various steps, the testing can disable power, to power cycle / reboot the USB storage device. Whence all those tests pass, perhaps having another set of partially automated testing with interactive USB storage device insertions and removals.

Even if host power can't be removed, (and we can probably create a special test jig that can do so, if we can't find one already available), using interactive tests with the user performing the inserts and removals will still be quite valuable.

In fact, one of my original suggestions is copy on write. Meaning that the internal directory structure remains consistent, even through unexpected power cycles. So with automated power cycle support, we can test that function by writing to the USB flash drive and disabling power at various intervals. Then on power up, make sure that preexisting data is still available.