What is Flash drive, usb stick?
Flash drives/usb sticks are solid state memory devices that are versatile, compact, portable and easy to use. A flash drive works like a portable disk hard drive and drag and drop your files to the removable disk. No additional cable or adapters are required.
Where can you use Flash Drives?
Flash drives can be used anytime and anywhere, including home, school, and on the road to share, transport, and store all kinds of digital content. Since Flash drives offer large capacity storage (up to 32GB) and fast read and write speeds, they are a practical and convenient tool for fun or business. You can fill a typical drive with hundreds of photos, documents, and mp3 files in just seconds.
How can use Flash Drives?
| Transfer business files easily from your work laptop to your home computer and back again, while protecting your files from being erased, altered or viewed by anyone but you. |
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Carry school work securely from the computer lab to your dorm PC to your professor's laptop without concern regarding compatibility. |
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Trade and share business presentations from laptop to laptop at a trade show without worrying about dial-up connections or if you'll have enough room on your hard drive. |
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Share digital photos, music, and videos with family members and friends quickly and easily. |
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Store personal information that you don't want on your computer's hard drive. Use several to help organize files, assignments, images or more specific to your tasks or hobbies. |
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Carry it with you on a lanyard around your neck, on your key chain, in your backpack or purse so it is readily available when you need it. |
How does Flash Drive work?
Flash memory is a transistor technology. A single flash memory cell is made up of two transistors. One transistor is a floating gate and separated from the other transistor (a control gate) by a thin oxide layer. In the normal condition (no stored data,) electrons flow freely from the floating gate to the control gate. In computers, data is stored in binary terms — as ones (1) and zeros (0) — and the free-flowing electronic condition has a value of 1.
How does data is stored on Flash Drive?
To store data, a value of 0 is created by applying low voltage to the floating gate and exciting the electrons, The electrons are pushed through the thin oxide layer and are trapped on the control gate side, where they block the connectivity between the control gate and the floating gate. To return the cell to a normal condition of 1, an electric field is applied to the cell and the electrons are restored to the floating gate.
How long can I use Flash Drive?
Flash memory has a write endurance limit. This limit is the number of times the flash memory cell can be written until it can not be restored to its initial condition. The industry refers to this as the erase cycles. The endurance is rated between 10,000 and 1,000,000 erase cycles for different types flash memories.
What is the compatibility?
Our Flash Drives are full compatible with Windows XP/2000/2003/vista and OS X. |
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