Can the WS-510M be used as a USB flash drive?
Yes. Because the WS-510M is a Mass Storage Class device, its built-in flash memory can be used like a USB flash drive to transfer data between computers. Text files, graphics, music and images form one system can be uploaded into the recorder’s memory and then later downloaded to another system. The two computers do not need to be running the same operating system, but they do need to support the USB Mass Storage Device protocol. The recorder uses native operating system drivers to interface with each computer. To the operating system, the device appears as an external hard drive. Double-clicking on the “drive” that represents the recorder causes the recorder’s contents to be displayed in a window within the operating system’s file-browsing application (e.g. My Computer for Windows®-based systems, Finder for Mac® systems). Files are transferred to and from the device using the operating system’s standard copy and move procedures, such as drag and drop and cut and paste. The dat
