Week 6: Clear: The Convenience of Flash Drives

A flash drive is a storage device that has no moving parts. It is used to store data such as media files, programs, or just regular documents. Flash drives are also known as USB drives because they connect to a computer through the USB port. The data of a USB drive travels much faster than an optical drive or a magnetic drive.

Over the years flash drives, like everything else, have become smaller in size but larger in capacity. For instance flash drives started at 8 MBs and now can support up to 256 GBs. New technology has allowed companies to create flash drives that are disguised as something else. For instance you can order a flash drive online that looks like a lipstick case or one that looks like a cracker.


Flash drives have unlimited potential in their capabilities. For instance, in the future they will have many shapes and sizes and be able to hold a ton of information. They are very durable and very reliable compared to the other drives. Flash drives don't lose their information and are very hard to break. This is why they are much better than optical and magnetic drives.

The Business World
Flash Drives are very useful in the business environment because they are a convenient way of traveling with data. Flash drives can be easily taken on planes and stored in a suitcase. Unlike other forms of media if a flash drive gets scratched it wont matter because the data is stored on the memory. This is why business use flash media instead of disks.

Related Site
PC Support explains what a flash drive is and how it can be used. Also it explains the various types there are and what they're capable of. This is a good site to learn what a flash drive is if not understood.