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USB Drive.

A USB Drive is a storage device which is widely using today, was first commercially selling by TREK Technology and IBM. at the beginning the storage capacity of the drive is just 8 MB, which is more than 5 times higher than the floppy storage, the CDs and DVDs also providing the storage but there is non rewritable, even rewritable also plays only 2-3 times. so the USB Drives attracts the gadget geeks.

Now we are using the Second generation of the USB Flash storage drives. which is said to be USB 2.0.

The memory storage is based on the EPROM’s with the erasure region broken in an smaller fields. by the way the buffering of input data can be easily modified and provide the storage smart. The flash drives are preformatted with FAT or FAT 32 file system.

The main advantage of the drive is easily o carry, nothing is mechanical inside while working, there is no installation, just plug and play, and even fast too. The flash drive consists of just a single printed circuit board caring the circuit elements and an USB connector. now a days the audio player systems are also available in the market.

there is some fake Drives are available in the market with different memory varieties. in label they printed the drive holding 8 GB memory but put in to the computer it shows only 2 or 4 GB.

so take attention in buying the USB drives.