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Flash Drives |
Flash drives, also often called thumb drives and pen
drives, are the newest category of data storage devices. They are
small, portable storage devices that connect to a computer's USB
port.
Flash drives are more durable than most other forms of portable data
storage. They are not generally harmed by magnets, as floppies are,
and they have no data surface that can be scratched, like CDs and
DVDs do. They are able to be re-written thousands of times, which
floppies and rewritable CD/DVD media would have a hard time
handling.
Flash drives are constantly increasing in storage capacity. Current
drives can store as much as 2 Gigabytes of data. That's more than
1400 floppy disks (each holds 1.44MB), and a little less than half
of what a single-layer DVD can store (4.7 Gigabytes).
Data transfer speeds of almost 30 Megabytes per second are reached
by current flash drives. Compare that to the theoretical maximum of
a 16x DVD-ROM drive of 21 Megabytes per second, or the painfully
slow 0.125 Megabytes per second of a floppy disk drive.
With the portability, ease of use, reliability, significant storage
capacity, and ever lowering costs, flash drives are an excellent
personal, portable way to take your data anywhere.Flash drives, also
often called thumb drives and pen drives, are the newest category of
data storage devices. They are small, portable storage devices that
connect to a computer's USB port.
Flash drives are more durable than most other forms of portable data
storage. They are not generally harmed by magnets, as floppies are,
and they have no data surface that can be scratched, like CDs and
DVDs do. They are able to be re-written thousands of times, which
floppies and rewritable CD/DVD media would have a hard time
handling.
Flash drives are constantly increasing in storage capacity. Current
drives can store as much as 2 Gigabytes of data. That's more than
1400 floppy disks (each holds 1.44MB), and a little less than half
of what a single-layer DVD can store (4.7 Gigabytes).
Data transfer speeds of almost 30 Megabytes per second are reached
by current flash drives. Compare that to the theoretical maximum of
a 16x DVD-ROM drive of 21 Megabytes per second, or the painfully
slow 0.125 Megabytes per second of a floppy disk drive.
With the portability, ease of use, reliability, significant storage
capacity, and ever lowering costs, flash drives are an excellent
personal, portable way to take your data anywhere. |
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