What makes you think there’s no way of updating the firmware? Also, they could be made so that there’s a simple API (like a serial device exposed via USB) and apps for Win/macOS/Linux to update the label. But I guess the demand was never there.
What makes you think there’s no way of updating the firmware?
I don’t know, but the amount of USB drives I’ve seen with a readily identifiable serial or jtag port and API documentation is exactly zero. 😉
I think most of them were one-and-done, as in, code/hardware was designed once, and never iterated on again, at least not for devices already in the field.
It’s a shame these never took off. I’d love for my various USB drives to have displays that show their labels and maybe even contents.
I used to have some with e-ink displays that showed how full they were, but I always wished I could use them to show a label instead.
That’d make it highly file system dependent with no way of updating the firmware. All these drives stopped working after the FAT32->ExFAT switch.
What makes you think there’s no way of updating the firmware? Also, they could be made so that there’s a simple API (like a serial device exposed via USB) and apps for Win/macOS/Linux to update the label. But I guess the demand was never there.
I don’t know, but the amount of USB drives I’ve seen with a readily identifiable serial or jtag port and API documentation is exactly zero. 😉
I think most of them were one-and-done, as in, code/hardware was designed once, and never iterated on again, at least not for devices already in the field.